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The First Ten Years: Interesting Tidbits from the ESA Bulletin (1917?1925) Kiyoko Miyanishi (from Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 94:204-209. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America was ESA’s first publication, beginning as a monthly in January 1917. Because a lack of material submitted during the war years made the Bulletins irregular, it was changed to a…
We’ll be celebrating ESA’s history again this year, with major displays and demos at our joint Historical Records/Centennial Committee booth. Look for us in the Exhibit Hall all week, but especially during poster sessions. (Booth 613) In addition to our booth, several sessions related to ESA history are planned by the HRC Program Subcommittee and others. To learn more about…
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…
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…
Ecology 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…
Information 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…
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