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
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