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 […]
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 […]
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 […]