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<\/a>A highlight this year was the opportunity Monday and Tuesday afternoons to meet authors Jean Langenheim (The Odyssey of a Woman Field Scientist<\/em> is her memoir) and Dave Coleman (Big Ecology<\/em>, an acclaimed view of ecosystem science). Virtually all copies of their books we had available were quickly sold.<\/p>\nOverall, we were very pleased with the attendance at the HRC booth, and hope to make sure we\u2019re easier for conference attendees to find next year. Many thanks to Jean and Dave for signing books, and to Dennis Knight, Julie Mulroy, Kara Blue, Corey Palmer, and others who tended the booth during the week. Our HRC booth at the 2011 ESA meeting was a grand success. Once people found us, they enjoyed chatting, looking at historical photos and posters, and sharing their own recollections of the history of ecology and ESA. As the Centennial approaches, we\u2019re already looking forward to Portland 2012, and we hope to have more to offer at the booth each…<\/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":[77,88,102],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hrc-booth","tag-annual-meetings","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/a>For the record, this was our second year hosting a booth at the ESA annual meeting. Last year, visitors marked up an ESA timeline and other posters, and seemed to enjoy reading\u2014and contributing to\u2014all the information provided on posters prepared by Scott Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"