This is extremely sad news - as someone whose career has been strongly
inspired and impacted directly by the work of Eisner. Prof. Eisner was
and will continue to be a paramount inspiration to my career. I will
spend much of today reflecting on his works, his life and the immense
contributions he made to both science and education.
To partially answer your question:
I think it would be a fitting tribute to his life, career and worthy of
his legacy to establish an Invertebrate Studies Institute. For a while
I've been batting around the idea of some kind of "Insect institute".
There are a lot of disconnected things that people in science (basic and
applied) and education/outreach do which would mutually benefit from
being under the same roof with a truly interdisciplinary focus.
Eisner taught us that the world of invertebrates and their chemistry are
incomprehensibly vast and diverse - yet he was able to at the same time
open the door for us to begin exploring it.
There is much to be explored and I think we would do justice to his
legacy by forging ahead with passion and vigor to advance our
understanding of invertebrates and their chemistry.
Anyone interested in working on such a project please contact me.
Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
On 3/28/2011 1:18 PM, Ecojobs Admin wrote:
The sad news that Tom Eisner has left us got me thinking...who are the
early-career ecologists/organismal/evolutionary biologists among us today
who will evoke such feelings of awe and respect and loss when they pass away
30 or 40 or 50 years from now? Who among us will be looked upon as shaping
(or re-shaping) an entire scientific discipline? Is it even possible to
detect such people except in hindsight? These are not rhetorical questions,
btw...I'm sincerely wondering whether any names come to mind.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March11/EisnerObit.html
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20110327/NEWS01/103270361/Eisner-remembered-much-more-than-scientist
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theithacajournal/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-eisner&pid=149742817
