Pardee House Hosts Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) Meeting

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is hosting a two-day meeting of the Editorial Board of the online Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) on Aug. 9 and 10.

Pardee Faculty Fellow Cutler Cleveland, a BU Professor of Geography and Environment, is the founding editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia, which was launched in the fall of 2006 as a joint initiative of Boston University and the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) in Washington, D.C. Collaboratively written and edited by academic scientists and other experts, the EoE has more than 5,300 published articles, approximately 1,600 contributors from around the world, and has averaged 20,000 unique visitors a week.

In addition to Prof. Cleveland, Editorial Board members attending the meeting at Pardee House include Peter Saundry, Executive Director of NCSE; Andy Jorgensen, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toledo; Michael Pidwirny, Associate Professor of Physical Geography at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan; and Emily Monosson, a toxicologist who is a writer and consultant based in western Massachusetts. EoE staff members Arielle Conti, Managing Editor and Cynthia Barakatt, Director of Content Development, also are participating in the meeting. Editorial Board members C. Michael Hogan, an environmental scientist with extensive experience in industry and academia, and Sidney Draggan, an ecologist and former Special Assistant for Science to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, are taking part in the meeting via teleconference.