Timeline Highlights Archives - Page 8 of 8

March 1, 1981

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

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 […]

June 1, 1980

Start of ESSA’s Acid Rain Work

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. […]

March 1, 1980

The First Project by ESSA

The first project on record (PR001) was called “An Adaptive Environment Assessment Approach to the Effects of Development of the Alberta Oil Sands”. The project team consisted of Bob Everitt, Mike Jones, Nick Sonntag, and Mike Staley.

March 1, 1979

The Beginning of ESSA

ESSA Environmental and Social Systems Analysts is created by Bob Everitt, Nick Sonntag, Mike Staley and Joan Anderson (hence a double acronym). Bob, Nick and Mike were all grad students at UBC who had been exposed to Adaptive Environmental Assessment through their instructors and research.