{"id":1888,"date":"2014-08-09T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T22:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2014-08-09T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T22:33:26","slug":"ecological-century-perspectives-on-the-evolution-of-the-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2014\/08\/ecological-century-perspectives-on-the-evolution-of-the-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Century: Perspectives on the Evolution of the Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OPS 3 Ecological Century: Perspectives on the Evolution of the Discipline<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, August 13, 2014: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM at the<br>\nExhibit Hall, Sacramento Convention Center<br>\nOrganized by Kathleen J. Fichtel and Juliana C. Mulroy<br>\nThe Historical Records Committee is sponsoring this session in order to provide a forum for fostering discussion about the history of ecology and of the Ecological Society of America as the Centennial approaches. Five posters explore the influence of Victor Shelford\u2019s undergraduate years on his career, provide context for Ruth Patrick\u2019s role as a woman in ecology for the past century, review the history of vegetation classification, and outline the evolution of ESA\u2019s history information in online media. Finally, the results of our <a title=\"Explore Ecological Concepts in Monday Session!\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/explore-ecological-concepts-in-monday-session\/\">Special Session on Ecological Concepts<\/a> will be presented in poster form.<br>\nDetails at <a href=\"http:\/\/eco.confex.com\/eco\/2014\/webprogram\/Session9664.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EcoConfex program page<\/a>.<br>\nOPS 3-1 Taking historical records online: ESA\u2019s evolving digital footprint<br>\nSally L. White, Morrison, CO; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina; C. Susannah Tysor, University of British Columbia<br>\nOPS 3-2 Appalachian Springboard: ESA co-founder Victor Shelford and his undergraduate experience at West Virginia University<br>\nKathleen J. Fichtel, West Virginia University; Robert H. Jones, West Virginia University<br>\nOPS 3-3 The Dark Ages: The historical and societal context for the work of Ruth Patrick and Women in Ecology Daniel S. Song, University of Pennsylvania<br>\nOPS 3-5 History of the United States National Vegetation Classification System<br>\nScott B. Franklin, University of Northern Colorado; Robert K. Peet,University of North Carolina; David Roberts, Montana State University;Orie L. Loucks, Miami University; Michael Jennings, University of Idaho;Alexa McKerrow, United States Geological Survey; Don Faber-Langendoen, NatureServe<br>\nOPS 3-6 Ecological concepts: Of what value, and for whom? Results of a survey<br>\nWilliam A. Reiners, University of Wyoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPS 3 Ecological Century: Perspectives on the Evolution of the Discipline Wednesday, August 13, 2014: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM at the Exhibit Hall, Sacramento Convention Center Organized by Kathleen J. Fichtel and Juliana C. Mulroy The Historical Records Committee is sponsoring this session in order to provide a forum for fostering discussion about the history of ecology and of the Ecological&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[47,78,88],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-centennial","tag-hrc-programming","tag-annual-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}