Timeline 80s Archives - ESSA

Don Robinson starts at ESSA

Paul Beauchemin — Sat, 03 Sep 1988 15:55:41 +0000

Don Robinson starts at ESSA

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Modelling Forest Carbon

Paul Beauchemin — Sun, 03 Jul 1988 15:53:49 +0000

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 […]

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Timber Harvesting Impacts in Ontario

Paul Beauchemin — Tue, 03 Feb 1987 16:52:52 +0000

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 […]

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Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS)

Paul Beauchemin — Mon, 03 Mar 1986 16:52:08 +0000

For over 20 years, we have enjoyed continuous collaboration with scientists from the US Forest Service, working closely together on a wide variety of scientific and decision support problems. One of these partnerships has focused on the development of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), a […]

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Snowmelt Pranks

Paul Beauchemin — Thu, 03 May 1984 15:51:32 +0000

In the olden days before word processors our dedicated secretaries would type everything out. We were working very hard to finish a proposal on the effects of snowmelt on lake and stream acidification. Dave reading his bio-blurb “In fact, he’s probably the best f%#@*!* acidification […]

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Lorne Grieg joins ESSA

Paul Beauchemin — Sun, 03 Apr 1983 16:48:57 +0000

Lorne Grieg joins ESSA

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Cowboys and modellers in Nevada

Paul Beauchemin — Wed, 03 Feb 1982 16:48:06 +0000

The Saval Ranch project involved meeting with cowboys and various BLM / university scientists in Elko, Nevada, building a simulation model to help understand the effects of cattle grazing on plants, water, birds and fish. Like many early models, it got complicated really quickly, and […]

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Raiding the UBC Farm Team

Paul Beauchemin — Fri, 03 Apr 1981 16:47:20 +0000

1981 – Mike Jones, Dave Marmorek, Pete McNamee and Tim Webb all join ESSA as full time employees, while concurrently attempting to complete their graduate work at UBC. UBC was really ESSA’s farm team, with superb mentoring from Buzz Holling, Carl Walters, Randall Peterman, Bill […]

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The birth of conceptual models at ESSA – Beaufort Environmental Monitoring Project (BEMP)

Paul Beauchemin — Mon, 02 Mar 1981 00:50:38 +0000

The first of a long line of ESSA projects in the Beaufort Sea as part of the Beaufort Environmental Monitoring Project (BEMP). We used conceptual models, called Impact Hypotheses, to evaluate impacts of oil and gas development. Aboriginal participants found the conceptual models much easier […]

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Start of ESSA’s Acid Rain Work

Paul Beauchemin — Sun, 01 Jun 1980 23:49:34 +0000

1980 – The first of many ESSA acid rain workshops, this one in Ann Arbor Michigan. Dave Marmorek had just come from hiking in the Trinity Alps in CA, and was dressed in a 3-piece suit and wearing bright blue and yellow Adidas running shoes. […]

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