Eminent Ecologist Award
Encyclopedia
The Eminent Ecologist Award is prize awarded annually to a senior ecologist in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the science of ecology
. The prize is awarded by the Ecological Society of America
. According to the statutes, the recipient may be from any country in the world. However, in practice very few non-U.S.A. citizens have received the award. The awardee receives lifetime membership in the society.
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
. The prize is awarded by the Ecological Society of America
Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America is a professional organization of ecological scientists. Based in the United States, ESA publishes a suite of publications, from peer-reviewed journals to newsletters, fact sheets and teaching resources. It holds an annual meeting at different locations in the...
. According to the statutes, the recipient may be from any country in the world. However, in practice very few non-U.S.A. citizens have received the award. The awardee receives lifetime membership in the society.
Recipients
- 2011 Thomas G. Whitham,
- 2010 Simon A. LevinSimon A. LevinSimon Asher Levin is an American ecologist. He is a Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Princeton University. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological...
, - 2009 Stephen P. HubbellStephen P. HubbellStephen P. Hubbell is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author and proponent of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography , which seeks to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities. Dr...
, - 2008 Michael RosenzweigMichael RosenzweigMichael L. Rosenzweig is an ecologist at the University of Arizona who has developed and popularized the concept of Reconciliation ecology. He founded and developed the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at UA Tucson, now a major center for the study of Evolutionary Ecology...
, - 2007 Otto Lange,
- 2006 Daniel SimberloffDaniel SimberloffDaniel Simberloff is a biologist and ecologist who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969.Simberloff started his studies in ecology as a student of the biologist E. O. Wilson, one of the co-authors of the theory of Island biogeography . For his Ph.D...
, - 2005 Lawrence B. SlobodkinLawrence B. SlobodkinLawrence B. Slobodkin was an American ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He was one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology...
, - 2004 Samuel J. McNaughtonSamuel J. McNaughtonSamuel Joseph McNaughton is an American ecologist and professor at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. at University of Texas-Austin in 1964, and was tenured to Syracuse University in 1966....
, - 2003 Richard Bruce Root,
- 2002 Charles J. Krebs,
- 2001 Paul R. EhrlichPaul R. EhrlichPaul Ralph Ehrlich is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera , but...
, - 2000 Robert Treat Paine,
- 1999 Crawford S. HollingC. S. HollingCrawford Stanley Holling, OC is a Canadian ecologist, and Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. Holling is one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics....
, - 1998 Gordon OriansGordon OriansDr Gordon Howell Orians is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He was the 1999 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.-References:...
, - 1997 Frances C. James,
- 1996 Harold A. MooneyHarold A. MooneyHarold A. "Hal" Mooney is an American ecologists and professor from Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1960 and was employed by University of California-Los Angeles the same year. He joined the staff at Stanford University in 1968...
, - 1995 Gene E. LikensGene LikensGene Elden Likens is an American ecologist and a leading pioneer in the study of acid rain.Likens got his B.S. at Manchester College in 1957, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He joined the faculty of Dartmouth College in 1961. He was co-founder in 1963 of a group...
and Frederick Herbert Bormann, - 1994 Edward Osborne Wilson,
- 1993 Margaret Byron Davis,
- 1992 Frank A. PitelkaFrank PitelkaDr Frank Alois Pitelka was an American ornithologist. He was the 2001 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.In 1992, Dr...
, - 1991 W. Dwight BillingsDwight BillingsWilliam Dwight Billings was an American ecologist. Billings was one of the foundational figures in the field of physiological ecology and made major contributions to desert and arctic ecology.Billings served as President of the Ecological Society of America from 1978 to 1979...
and Nelson George Hairston, - 1990 William Edwin Ricker,
- 1989 George C. WilliamsGeorge C. WilliamsProfessor George Christopher Williams was an American evolutionary biologist.Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D...
, - 1988 Herbert Groves Andrewartha and Louis Charles BirchCharles BirchLouis Charles Birch FAA was an Australian geneticist specialising in population ecology and was also well known as a theologian, writing widely on the topic of science and religion, winning the Templeton Prize in 1990...
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- 1987 Archie CarrArchie CarrArchie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America...
, - 1986 Evelyn C. PielouE. C. PielouEvelyn Chrystalla Pielou is a statistical ecologist. She began her career as a researcher for the Canadian Department of Forestry and the Canadian Department of Agriculture...
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- 1985 Joseph H. ConnellJoseph H. ConnellJoseph Hurd Connell is an American ecologist. According to the Ecological Society of America, "Connell’s observations, insights, syntheses, and example have motivated education and research in population and community ecology for over six decades". Among his important works are the Connell–Slatyer...
, - 1984 John L. HarperJohn L. HarperJohn Lander Harper CBE FRS was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology.He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in and his MA and MPhil from Oxford...
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- 1983 Walles Thomas Edmondson,
- 1982 Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. , born in Albany, New York, was a prominent American ecologist and paleolimnologist, and an early protégé of G. Evelyn Hutchinson at Yale University...
, - 1981 Robert H. Whittaker,
- 1980 Donald W. TinkleDonald W. TinkleDonald Ward Tinkle was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 50...
, - 1979 Rexford F. Daubenmire,
- 1978 Samuel Charles Kendeigh,
- 1977 Walton Byron McDougall,
- 1976 Alton Anthony LindseyAlton A. LindseyAlton A. Lindsey was a pioneering ecologist who was largely responsible for the creation of nature preserves in the state of Indiana, where he was a professor of forest ecology at Purdue University from 1947 to 1973...
, - 1975 Cornelius Herman MullerCornelius Herman MullerCornelius Herman Muller was an American botanist and ecologist who pioneered the study of allelopathy.- Personal life :After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1938 with a Ph.D...
, - 1974 Eugene OdumEugene OdumEugene Pleasants Odum was an American scientist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He wrote the first ecology textbook: Fundamentals of Ecology....
, - 1973 Robert MacArthurRobert MacArthurRobert Helmer MacArthur was an American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology....
, - 1972 Ruth M. PatrickRuth PatrickDr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925....
, - 1971 Thomas Park,
- 1970 Murray Fife BuellMurray Fife BuellMurray Fife Buell was an American ecologist and palynologist.-Personal life:Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Buell earned a B.S. at Cornell University in 1930. He then attended the University of Minnesota where he earned a M.A. in 1934 and a Ph.D. in 1935. After completing his Ph.D., Buell's...
, - 1969 Stanley Adair Cain,
- 1968 Victor Ernest ShelfordVictor Ernest ShelfordVictor Ernest Shelford was an American zoologist and animal ecologist who helped to establish ecology as a distinct field of study.-Background and education:...
, - 1967 Alfred Edwards Emerson,
- 1966 Alfred C. RedfieldAlfred C. RedfieldAlfred Clarence Redfield was an American oceanographer.He is especially known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in plankton and ocean water. In 1966, he received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America...
, - 1965 Paul Bigelow SearsPaul SearsPaul Bigelow Sears was an American ecologist and writer. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio. Sears attended Ohio Wesleyan University , the University of Nebraska at Lincoln , and the University of Chicago Paul Bigelow Sears (December 17, 1891-April 30, 1990) was an American ecologist and writer. He was...
, - 1964 Lee Raymond Dice,
- 1963 William Skinner CooperWilliam Skinner CooperWilliam Skinner Cooper was an American ecologist.Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, he entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Henry Chandler Cowles, and completed his Ph.D. in 1911...
, - 1962 G. Evelyn HutchinsonG. Evelyn HutchinsonGeorge Evelyn Hutchinson FRS was an Anglo-American zoologist known for his studies of freshwater lakes and considered the father of American limnology....
, - 1961 Charles S. Elton,
- 1960 Walter Pace Cottam,
- 1959 Henry Allen GleasonHenry GleasonHenry Allan Gleason was a noted American ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist, most recognized for his endorsement of the individualistic/open community concept of ecological succession.- Life and work :...
, - 1958 Arthur William Sampson,
- 1957 Karl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.-Biography:Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt's father was a German professor who, at the time of Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled...
, - 1956 George Burton Rigg,
- 1955 Albert Hazen WrightAlbert Hazen WrightAlbert Hazen Wright was a professor at Cornell University and a herpetologist. He was also an honorary member of the "International Ornithological Congress." He did a great deal of study of the Okefenokee Swamp. In 1955 he won the Eminent Ecologist Award....
, - 1954 Henry Shoemaker ConardHenry Shoemaker ConardHenry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa...
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