March 3, 1986
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 […]
May 3, 1984
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 […]
February 3, 1982
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 […]
April 3, 1981
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 […]