14 Facts About Eugene Odum

Eugene Pleasants Odum was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology.

Eugene Odum was very proud of Martha's accomplishments as an artist.

Eugene Odum often painted landscapes when traveling with her husband across the US and overseas.

Martha Ann Eugene Odum joined her husband in Rensselaerville, where he continued to work at the Huyck Preserve.

Eugene Odum's purpose was to establish a basis for succession studies of the land so man could plan and manage ecosystems.

In September 1940, Eugene Odum took a job as an instructor of biology at the University of Georgia.

Eugene Odum founded the Institute of Ecology, later named for him.

In 2007 the Institute of Ecology, which Eugene Odum founded at the University of Georgia, was named as the Eugene Odum School of Ecology, the first stand-alone academic unit of a research university dedicated to ecology.

Eugene Odum founded two field research stations as a faculty member at the University of Georgia: the University of Georgia Marine Institute and the Savannah River Ecology Lab.

Eugene Odum brought forward the importance of ecology as a discipline that should be a fundamental dimension of the training of a biologist.

Eugene Odum wrote a textbook on ecology with his brother, Howard Thomas Eugene Odum, a graduate student at Yale.

Eugene Odum was an independent thinker who was at times, gently critical of the slogans and fashionable concepts of the environmentalist movement.

Eugene Odum's will stipulated that, after his death, his 26 acres on the Middle Oconee River in Athens, Ga.

Eugene Odum's financial contributions were focused on not only the University of Georgia, but the University of Virginia given his son's faculty appointment there, and the University of North Carolina where his father was a prolific scholar.