Theme: Earth Stewardship:Preserving and enhancing the earth’s life-support systems August 7-12, 2011, in Austin, Texas, 3721 attendeesOpening Plenary Keynote Speaker: Name, title, on topic, titleScientific Plenary Keynote Speaker: : Stephen W. Pacala, ESA MacArthur Lecturer; Director, Princeton Environmental Institute, on topic/titleAwards | Annual reports | Introduction:Human society currently faces global-scale issues including climate change, loss of biodiversity, population pressures, food production, energy…
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Theme: Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining Ecosystems August 5-10, 2012, in Portland, Oregon, 4992 attendees Opening Plenary Keynote Speaker: Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on Reflections on the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: SBI + 20 Celebration Scientific Plenary Keynote Speaker: Jerry Franklin, Ph.D., Professor…
Read MoreEcology photograph, IV International Botanical Congress, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. August 18, 1926 According to the records of Bob Burgess, the photograph includes 16 charter members of the Ecological Society of America (Bray, Cooper, Cowles, Dana, Fuller, Gates, Gleason, Korstian, Moore, Nichols, Shantz, Snow, Starr, Taylor, Toumey, and Zon), shown in bold in the list below. N.B. This is…
Read MoreInformation on the first two cohorts of ESA members (284 Charter Members plus 23 members elected at the December 1916 meeting) was published in the ESA Bulletin 1(3) in early 1917. This “Handbook” offers a fascinating glimpse of information abstracted from information provided by the members themselves in response to eight questions. View the Handbook. On what ecological topics have you published…
At the Portland meeting, HRC sponsored an entire poster session, as well as an organized oral session, devoted to history. We’ll be continuing that trend this year with new sessions in Minneapolis.The nine posters in the 2012 session explored various ways history can help clarify current research problems or shed light on the foundations of ESA as a society and…
Robert F. Griggs Born: Brooklyn, CT 8/22/1881, died 6/8/1962 Education: Ohio State (B. Sc, 1903); Minnesota (M.S. 1906); Harvard (Ph.D 1911) Dissertation title: The development and cytology of Rhodochytrium (Bot. Gaz 53:127-173) Adviser: George F. Atkinson (??) (mentioned in dissertation along with others) Teaching history: Fargo (N.D.) Coll. 1903-06, Ohio State 1906-21; George Washington Univ. 1921-47 (ret.)-52, Univ. of Pittsburgh…
Looking for a little ecoentertainment? We’ve been sharing little known facts about ESA’s eminent ecologists and presidents via our Twitter account, @ESAhistory! We’re also interested in Women in Ecology, especially during Women’s History Month. See links below. (Tweets have been edited slightly for web presentation; we also added dates to some for clarity.) Twitterati are welcome to join us @ESAhistory—we…