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that defined my memory of Dr. Pawley. I can't recall how many times I have
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> Agreed, Jim will be sadly missed.
> His contributions will be forever recognized.
> He was also a great guy to work with at his Confocal Microscopy Courses.
> I loved his style of teaching and his presence both in the classroom and
> behind the scenes.
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> Thanks Stephen for the biography, I did not know the interesting facts
> about him that you put in your post.
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> On Mar 12, 2019, at 3:30 AM, Stephen Cody <
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> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also
> from Christine Pawley.
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> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley,
> who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost
> immediately.
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> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated
> to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they
> joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then
> to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack
> and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond,
> California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie
> Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in
> biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of
> postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife
> Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology
> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities
> was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a
> national microscopy facility.
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> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells
> Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of
> internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by
> manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just
> diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted
> participants from all over the world. The course provided the foundation
> for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal
> Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising
> the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on
> climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped
> organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave
> lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He
> was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast
> Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
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> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix
> houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a
> cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent
> almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a
> founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his
> kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and
> guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they
> built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in
> Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said
> how lucky he felt to be here.
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> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of
> 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger
> Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and
> Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt.
> All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his
> life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (
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https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event
> May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also
> invited to send stories and photos to
[hidden email] to be bound
> into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to
> the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association:
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https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com. His family will post updates on
> the memorial celebration and donation fund at
http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
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