G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Memorial Symposium

Saturday, October 25^th, 2003

                   G. Evelyn Hutchinson

                 SCHEDULE PREVIEW

Venues:

   Yale Center for British Art
   1080 Chapel Street
   New Haven, CT
 
   Luce Hall
   34 Hillhouse Avenue
   New Haven, CT

   Photos of Hutchinson

   Live Music

 
   Sharon Kingsland (Johns Hopkins)  

   The Beauty of the World: Evelyn Hutchinson's   
   Vision of Science

    Earl Werner (Michigan)  

   Community Ecology and the Legacy
   of G. E. Hutchinson

   Lillian Randall (Emerita, Walters Art Museum)
   A Bird's Eye Perspective on Marginalia in
    Manuscripts

   Peter Vitousek (Stanford)
   Nutrient Cycling and Limitation in Terrestrial
   Ecosystems:  Interactions across Time Scales from
   Minutes to Millions of Years
 

   David Schindler (Alberta)
   A Modern View of Eutrophication

 
   Os Schmitz (Yale)
   Evolutionary Ecology:
  The Theatre and The Play

 
   Dave Skelly (Yale)
  The Central Idea of Ecology

   David Post (Yale)
   From Individuals to Ecosystems and Back Again;
   How Food Webs Integrate Across Levels of
   Biological Complexity

 
   Melinda Smith (Yale)
  Common Versus Rare Species and the Functioning
   of Ecosystems

   Karl Turekian (Yale)
   Paleoecology

 
   Michael Donoghue (Yale)
   Natural History Museums

  Peabody Museum of Natural History

  170 Whitney Avenue

  New Haven, CT

   Photos of Hutchinson ~ Live music
   Great Hall of the Dinosaurs
   Reception - Reminiscences

   Accompanying exhibits:

   Peabody Museum of Natural History:
   Hutchinson memorabilia

  Yale Center for British Art:
   Illustrated manuscripts with plants and
   animals in margins

On Saturday, October 25, 2003, Yale is hosting the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Memorial Symposium in celebration of Hutchinson’s 100^th Birthday.  Stephen Stearns, Edward P. Bass Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and Professor in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), is in charge of arranging this all day seminar and the various related events highlighting Hutchinson’s achievements in limnology. 

G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991), an English born American Zoologist known for his ecological study of lakes and also known as the father of modern limnology, grew up while the field of limnology was evolving and began his university education a year before the founding of the International Limnological Association.  He also contributed to the development of several other fields of science, and his understanding of geochemistry as well as biology gave him an unusual command of biogeochemistry.  Hutchinson communicated equally well with oceanographers, geochemists, anthropologists, paleontologists, sociologists and behaviorists, but also was at home with artists, writers and musicians.  He was a student at Cambridge, became a Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1925, and arrived at Yale in 1928 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.  He enjoyed a distinguished 43-year career at Yale, becoming the Sterling Professor of Zoology.  While at Yale, he developed courses in natural history, general ecology, limnology and biogeochemistry.  Upon his arrival in New Haven, he searched out lakes in the area looking for suitable objects for research and found Linsley Pond, which provided excellent material for him and his students, and as word spread of his presence, graduate students interested in working with him began arriving, and until his retirement in 1971, Ph.D. degrees were finished under his direction at the rate of about one per year. 

                            LINSLEY POND

The October 25th celebration will include presentations by Yale faculty Michael Donoghue, the Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and Professor in EEB; Professor David Post from EEB; Professors Oswald Schmitz and David Skelly from F&ES; Sterling Professor Karl K. Turekian from the Department of Geology & Geophysics; Sharon Kingsland, Professor of History, Science, Medicine & Technology at Johns Hopkins University; Earl Werner, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan; Peter Vitousek, Professor of Population Biology at Stanford University; David Schindler, Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta; Lillian Randall, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books emerita, The Walters Art Museum, and Melinda Smith, Post-Doctoral Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, among others.  For more information on the celebration, contact Fran Horowitz at (203) 432-3891.