Chancey Juday together with G. Evelyn Hutchinson

G. Evelyn Hutchinson

George Evelyn Hutchinson FRS was an Anglo-American zoologist known for his studies of freshwater lakes and considered the father of American limnology....

, and his close collaborator, Edward A. Birge were pioneers of North American limnology

Limnology

Limnology , also called freshwater science, is the study of inland waters. It is often regarded as a division of ecology or environmental science. It covers the biological, chemical, physical, geological, and other attributes of all inland waters...

. Birge and Juday founded an influential school of limnology on Lake Mendota

Lake Mendota

Lake Mendota is the northernmost and largest of the four lakes near Madison, Wisconsin. The lake borders Madison on the north, east and south, Middleton on the west, Shorewood Hills on the southwest, Maple Bluff on the northeast, and Westport on the northwest....

 at the University of Wisconsin.

Juday, born in 1871 at Millersburg, Indiana

Millersburg, Indiana

Millersburg is a town in Clinton and Benton townships, Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. The population was 903 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Millersburg is located at ....

, completed his A.B. (1896) and A.M. (1897) degrees at Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

. Many years later he was also awarded an honorary LL.D.

In 1900 he was hired as a biologist by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. In 1908 he accepted an appointment as lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, where he began his collaboration with Birge.

Juday was one of the founders of the Limnological Society of America

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

Initiated in 1947, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography is a scientific society with the goal of Advancing the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. With approximately 4000 members in nearly 60 different countries, ASLO is the largest scientific society, worldwide, devoted to...

, serving as its president for two years. He was awarded the Leidy Medal (1943) by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences

Academy of Natural Sciences

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, formerly Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the New World...

, and in 1950 shared posthumously the Einar Naumann

Einar Naumann

Einar Christian Leonard Naumann was an assistant professor of botany and limnology at the University of Lund. Naumann worked during the summers at the Fishery Station in Aneboda , where he established a field laboratory of the Limnological Institute in Lund .In 1921 he suggested the establishment of...

 Medal of the International Association of Limnology

International Society of Limnology

The International Society of Limnology is an international scientific society that disseminates information among limnologists, those who study all aspects of inland waters, including their physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and management...

with Birge.