Fundamentals of Ecology by Eugene P. Odum

In September 1940, Odum took a job as an instructor of biology at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia). Academic career at University of Georgia Their son William died young, in his 40s, but had already made important contributions to science while a faculty member at the University of Virginia. He and Martha had two sons, William Eugene and Daniel Thomas Odum. His purpose was to establish a basis for succession studies of the land so man could plan and manage ecosystems. His research included studying chickadees and-more important for his future as an ecologist-inventorying the plants and preparing a habitat map. Martha Ann Odum joined her husband in Rensselaerville, where he continued to work at the Huyck Preserve. She often painted landscapes when traveling with her husband across the US and overseas. Odum was very proud of Martha's accomplishments as an artist. Odum and Martha Ann Huff, whom he had met as a student, married at her home in Wilmette, Illinois, on November 18, 1939. at Harvard, did research on bat echolocation (he later became famous for that work). at Cornell, studied green frogs and bullfrogs he went on to become a leading ichthyologist (zoologist who studies fish). The Preserve’s first summer research fellows, also selected in 1939, were Edward C. The 430-acre preserve had been founded in 1931 and its research station established in 1938. in 1939, Odum was hired to be the first resident biologist at the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station, in Rensselaerville, New York. There Odum was a student of Victor Shelford, whose efforts led to the establishment of The Nature Conservancy. Instead, he chose the Graduate Department of Zoology at the University of Illinois, where he earned his doctorate degree.

When contemplating where to conduct his advanced graduate work, he rejected both the University of Michigan and Cornell University, as he did not feel that this holism was embodied in their approach to their biology departments. Odum credited his father for imparting a holistic approach to exploring subjects. Odum, and older brother of the ecologist Howard T. The Odum School of Ecology is named in his honor. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology (1953).

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1977)Įcologist, mathematician, natural philosopher, and systems ecologistĮugene Pleasants Odum (Septem– August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. Pioneering the concept of the ecosystem the interdependence of divergent ecosystems as the basis of how the earth functions

Fundamentals of Ecology by Eugene P. Odum