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The average schoolchild of today knows that humans (along with other life forms) depend on adequate conditions of food, water, and shelter from inclement elements, for instance, and also that weather, geological, and biological factors (among others) are involved in the web of life that affords this environment. Further, the average schoolchild of today has heard the word "ecology." But back in the 1940s and 1950s, "ecology" was not yet a field of study that had been defined as a separate discipline. Even professional biologists seemed to Odum to be generally under-educated about how the Earth's ecological systems interact with one another. Odum brought forward the importance of ecology as a discipline that should be a fundamental dimension of the training of a biologist. Water is a tasteless, odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. ... Weather is a term that encompasses phenomena in the atmosphere of a planet. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Biology (from Greek βίος λόγος, see below) is the branch of science dealing with the study of living organisms. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ...

Life & Work

Son of the sociologist, Howard W. Odum, Odum credited his father for imparting to him a holistic approach to looking at things. When contemplating his advanced education, 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. Instead, he chose the Graduate Department of Zoology at the University of Illinois where he earned his doctorate degree. Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... Howard Washington Odum (born May 24, 1884 near Bethlehem, Georgia; died November 8, 1954 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American sociologist. ... Holism (from holos, a Greek word meaning all, entire, total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc. ... UM also has campuses in Dearborn and Flint. ... Cornell redirects here. ... Biology (from Greek βίος λόγος, see below) is the branch of science dealing with the study of living organisms. ... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of non human animals. ... The University of Illinois is the set of three public universities in Illinois. ...

Upon his graduation, Odum took up a teaching position in the University of Georgia. In the late 1940s, while serving on the University's biology faculty committee, which was then drawing up a new curriculum, he perceived an urgent need to incorporate the subject of ecology when he found that his colleagues generally did not know what ecology (in its own right) might be. The University of Georgia (UGA) is located approximately 70 miles north-east of Atlanta in Athens, Georgia, and is the largest institution of higher learning and research in the State of Georgia. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ...

Odum adopted and developed further the term "ecosystem". Although, sometimes said to have been coined by Raymond Lindeman in 1942, others assert that the term, "ecosystem", first appeared in a 1935 publication by the British ecologist, Arthur Tansley, and had in 1930 been coined by Tansley's colleague, Roy Clapham. Before Odum, the ecology of specific organisms and environments had been studied on a more limited scale within individual sub-disciplines of biology. Many scientists doubted that it could be studied on a large scale, or as a discipline in itself. Odum wrote a textbook on ecology with his brother, Howard Thomas Odum, a graduate student at Yale. The Odum brothers' book (first edition, 1953), Fundamentals of Ecology, was the only textbook in the field for about ten years. Among other things, the Odums explored how one natural system can interact with another. Their book has since been revised and expanded. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ecology is the branch of science that studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment. ... Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871 - 1955) was an English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of plant ecology. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... A crab is an example of an organism. ... The physicist Albert Einstein is probably the most famous scientist of our time. ... Howard Thomas Odum (1924-2002), commonly known as H.T. Odum or Tom Odum, was an eminent American ecosystem ecologist and a professor at the University of Florida. ... Yale redirects here. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

While Odum did wish to influence the knowledge base and thinking of fellow biologists, and college and university students, his historical role was not as a promoter of public environmentalism as we now know it. However, his dedication in his 1963 book, Ecology, expressed that his father had inspired him to "seek more harmonious relationships between man and nature". By 1970, when the first Earth Day was organized, Odum's conception of the living Earth as a global set of interlaced ecosystems became one of the key insights of the environmental movement that has since spread through the world. He was, however, an independent thinker who was at times, gently critical of the slogans and fashionable concepts of the environmentalist movement. The historic Blue Marble photograph, which helped bring environmentalism to the public eye. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Earth Day Flag. ... Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

After he passed away, Odum's will stipulated that his 26-acres on the Middle Oconee River in Athens, Ga. would be sold and developed according to plans he laid out before his death. The plans included that over 50 percent of the property would be protected greenspace and walking trails, managed by the Oconee River Land Trust. Profits from the sale of the land would go to the Eugene and William Odum Ecology Fund, after $1 million is set aside for a professorial chair at UGA in Odum's name. The land was sold to builder John Willis Homes who is honoring Dr. Odum’s wishes at Beech Creek Preserve [1].

Books

• Fundamentals of Ecology (with Howard Odum)
• Ecology
• Basic Ecology
• Ecology and Our Endangered Life Support Systems
• Ecological Vignettes: Ecological Approaches to Dealing with Human Predicament

Full-text online articles

• The Strategy of Ecosystem Development
• Comparison of population energy flow of a herviborous and a deposit-feeding invertebrate in a salt marsh ecosystem (with Alfred E. Smalley)