ESA Hosts Virtual Session at Annual Meeting Honoring Tony Janetos’s Legacy

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) hosted a virtual session at its 2020 Annual Meeting honoring the work of the late Prof. Tony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013 until his death in 2019.

The session, titled “A Research Agenda for Tackling Global Change: The Successful but Unfinished Business of Tony Janetos,” featured a series of short talks by his collaborators and friends demonstrating their continuation of his work on global change issues. The talks focused on the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s climate indicators platform, the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, the BU Climate Action Plan, and several other aspects of Prof. Janetos’s legacy.

A version of the talks can be viewed in the video above.

In April, ESA announced that Prof. Janetos would be posthumously awarded its 2020 Distinguished Service Citation. The award “recognizes long and distinguished volunteer service to ESA, the scientific community, and the larger purpose of ecology in the public welfare.”