John E. Weaver Born: Villisca, IA 5/5/1884; died 6/8/1966 Education: Nebraska (B. Sc. 1909, M.S. 1911); Minnesota (Ph.D. 1916) Dissertation title: A study of the vegetation of southeastern Washington and adjacent Idaho. (Univ. of Nebraska Studies 17:1-133) Adviser: Frederic E. Clements (D; confirmed by R. Tobey) Teaching history: Washington State 1912-14, Nebraska 1915-52 Ph.D. Students: John M. Aikman, Frederick W….
Henry Chandler Cowles Born: Kensington, CT 2/27/1869; died 9/12/1939 Education: Oberlin Coll. (A.B. 1893); Chicago (Ph.D. 1898) Dissertation title: An ecological study of the sand dune flora of northern Indiana (Bot. Gaz. 27:95-117, 167-202, 281-308, 361-391) Adviser: John M. Coulter (D) Comments: Also influenced by T. C. Chamberlin, geologist. See article by W. S. Cooper, Ecology 16:281-283. Teaching history: Gates…
W. Clark Ashby Born: Duluth, MN 7/6/1922 Education: Chicago (B.D. 1947, Ph. D. 1950); California (1947-49; no degree) Dissertation title: Effects of certain acid growth-regulating substances and their corresponding aldehydes on the growth of roots. (Bot. Gaz. 112: 237-249). Adviser: Poul Larsen (C) Comments: Took courses with and T.A.’d for Charles E. Olmsted while at Chicago. Influenced at California by…
Frederick W. Albertson Born: Hill City, KS 1/1/1892; died 6/8/1961 Education: Ft. Hays, Kansas St. Coll. (B. Sc. 1918); Missouri (A.M. 1930); Nebraska (Ph. D. 1937) Dissertation title: Ecology of mixed prairie in West-Central Kansas (Ecol. Mon. 7:483-547) Adviser: John E. Weaver (D) Teaching history: Ft. Hays St. Coll. 1918-1961 ESA offices and honors: Vice President 1951 ESA links: Resolution…
John M. Aikman Born: Mason City, NE 3/24/1893; died 7/13/1975 Education: Nebraska Wesleyan (A.B. 1917, A.M. 1921; Nebraska (Ph.D. 1928) Dissertation title: Distribution and structure of the forests of eastern Nebraska. (Univ. of Nebr. Studies 26:1-75) Adviser: John E. Weaver (D) Comments: Took a summer course with Henry C. Cowles at Chicago in 1922. Teaching history: Nebr. Wesleyan 1921-27; Iowa…
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In HRC’s session on Communities, Places, and American Ecology (OOS 11, 8/6/13), Alison Anastasio and Julie Mulroy presented talks based on data from the 1917 Handbook: 1) They have created a clean version of the ESA 1917 Handbook, which lists the 307 early members and their responses to several questions about their work. Read more on the Early Members page,…
ESA Centennial in 2015 Carol Brewer , Hal Balbach , Nancy Huntly from the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 94:204–209. Hello ESA Colleagues, The Ecological Society of America celebrates its Centennial in 2015, and many Society-sponsored activities already have been planned and are being developed. However, many other things remain to be organized, including the theme and program…