Society for Economic Botany

Society for Economic Botany
Motto Fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people
Formation 1959 (1959)
Purpose Furthering economic botany
Region
Worldwide
Official language
English
President
 Steven Casper
Main organ
 Council
Website www.econbot.org

The Society for Economic Botany is an international learned society covering the field of economic botany. It was established in 1959. Its official journal is Economic Botany, published on their behalf by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press.[1] The society also publishes a biannual newsletter, Plants and People.[2] The president is Sunshine Brosi (Frostburg, MD, United States).[3] The society organizes annual meetings at different locations around the world, where it awards the prize of Distinguished Economic Botanist to particularly meritorious individuals.[4][5]

Distinguished Economic Botanist prize

Recent recipients of the Distinguished Economic Botanist prize include:[5]

Past Presidents

Past presidents of the society include:[5]

  • Gayle Fritz (2017)
  • Steve Casper (2016)
  • Cassandra L. Quave (2015)
  • J. Richard Stepp (2014)
  • Robert Bye (2013)
  • Gail E. Wagner (2012)
  • Rainer Bussman (2011)
  • Mary Eubanks (2010)
  • Eve Emshwiller (2009)
  • Jim Miller (2008)
  • John Rashford (2007)
  • Will McClatchey (2006)
  • David L. Lentz (2005)
  • Bradley Bennett (2004)
  • Timothy Johns (2003)
  • Gary Martin (2002)
  • Brian N. Boom (2001)
  • Barbara Pickersgill (2000)
  • Beryl Simpson (1999)
  • Gail E. Wagner (1998)
  • Jan Salick (1997)
  • Ghillean T. Prance (1996)
  • Richard I. Ford (1995)
  • Paul Alan Cox (1994)
  • Jean H. Langenheim (1993)
  • Michael J. Balick (1992)
  • A. Douglas Kinghorn (1991)
  • Walter Lewis (1990)
  • David M. Bates (1989)
  • Paul A. Fryxell (1988)
  • Lawrence Kaplan (1987)
  • Gregory J. Anderson (1986)
  • Susan Verhoek (1985)
  • Garrison Wilkes (1984)
  • W. Hardy Eshbaugh (1983)
  • Abraham D. Krikorian (1982)
  • Harry H. Fong (1981)
  • John H. Beaman (1980)
  • C. Earle Smith, Jr. (1979)
  • Charles B. Heiser (1978)
  • Norman Doorenbos (1976)
  • Walter H. Hodge (1975)
  • Monroe E. Wall (1974)
  • Howard S. Gentry (1973)
  • Maynard W. Quimby (1972)
  • R. Gordon Wasson (1971)
  • George H.M. Lawrence (1970)
  • Robert F. Raffauf (1969)
  • Thomas W. Whitaker (1968)
  • Otto Frankel (1967)
  • Albert F. Hill (1966)
  • Edgar Anderson (1965)
  • Ivan A. Wolff (1964)
  • S. Morris Kupchan (1963)
  • Paul C. Mangelsdorf (1962)
  • C.O. Erlanson (1961)
  • Ernest Guenther (1959)


References

  1. ↑ "Economic Botany". Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  2. ↑ "Plants and People". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  3. ↑ "Society Officers". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  4. ↑ "Two botanists recognised as Distinguished Economic Botanists by the Society of Economic Botany". Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  5. 1 2 3 "Distinguished Economic Botanists". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
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