March 3, 1991
ESSA was designing and developing SCREENER, the first in a series of increasingly-sophisticated software tools for undertaking and tracking environmental assessments. The first clients were various branches of the federal government (including DND, DIAND, PWC, Transport Canada).
July 3, 1988
Carol Murray is hired by ESSA, despite the fact that she showed up for the interview wearing Greb work boots, jeans and a lumberjack shirt. Upon seeing this get-up Dave Marmorek thought that she must be either extremely confident, or a bit crazy. Actually she […]
July 3, 1988
ESSA started working on a model of forest carbon for all of Canada, including trees, soils, and the wood forest products that ultimately end up in buildings, libraries, land fill sites or the atmosphere. Modelling forest carbon became the primary focus of ESSA employee Werner’s […]
February 3, 1987
During the period from 1986 to 1988 ESSA was engaged in an intensive series of meetings and analyses on the effects of timber harvesting on northern Ontario fish and wildlife, and tourism. The project led to some very innovative adaptive management experiments by scientists at […]