The Eminent Ecologist Award is prize awarded annually to a senior ecologist in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the science of
ecology
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...
. 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. citizens have received the award. The awardee receives lifetime membership in the society.
Recipients
Source
ESA* 2022
Jianguo Liu
*2021
Steward T. A. Pickett,
*2020
Monica G. Turner,
*2019
Robert Holt,
*2018
F. Stuart Chapin III
F. Stuart Chapin III (or Terry Chapin) (born February 2, 1944) is a professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska. He was President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA ...
,
*2017
Diana Harrison Wall,
*2016
Jerry F. Franklin,
*2015
Eric R. Pianka,
*2014
Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well- ...
,
*2013
William A. Reiners,
*2012
Robert J. Naiman,
*2011
Thomas G. Whitham,
*2010
Simon A. Levin,
*2009
Stephen P. Hubbell,
*2008
Michael Rosenzweig,
*2007
Otto Ludwig Lange
Otto Ludwig Lange (21 August 1927 – 14 August 2017 in Würzburg) was a German botanist and lichenologist. The focus of his scientific work was on the ecophysiology of wild and cultivated plants as well as lichens. He investigated heat, frost ...
,
*2006
Daniel Simberloff,
*2005
Lawrence B. Slobodkin,
*2004
Samuel J. McNaughton,
*2003
Richard B. Root,
*2002
Charles J. Krebs,
*2001
Paul R. Ehrlich,
*2000
Robert Treat Paine,
*1999
Crawford S. Holling,
*1998
Gordon Orians,
*1997
Frances C. James,
*1996
Harold A. Mooney,
*1995
Gene E. Likens and
Frederick Herbert Bormann,
*1994
Edward Osborne Wilson,
*1993
Margaret Bryan Davis,
*1992
Frank A. Pitelka,
*1991
W. Dwight Billings and
Nelson George Hairston,
*1990
William Edwin Ricker,
*1989
George C. Williams,
*1988
Herbert Groves Andrewartha and
Louis Charles Birch,
*1987
Archie Carr
Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. (June 16, 1909 – May 21, 1987) was an American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and an acclaimed writer on science and nature. He brought atten ...
,
*1986
Evelyn C. Pielou,
*1985
Joseph H. Connell,
*1984
John L. Harper
John Lander Harper (27 May 1925 – 22 March 2009) was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology.
Life
He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in (1 ...
,
*1983
Walles Thomas Edmondson,
*1982
Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.,
*1981
Robert H. Whittaker,
*1980
Donald W. Tinkle Donald Ward Tinkle (December 3, 1930 – February 21, 1980) was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 49. He is best known for his intensive demographic stud ...
,
*1979
Rexford F. Daubenmire,
*1978
Samuel Charles Kendeigh
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bib ...
,
*1977
Walter Byron McDougall,
*1976
Alton Anthony Lindsey,
*1975
Cornelius Herman Muller,
*1974
Eugene Odum,
*1973
Robert MacArthur,
*1972
Ruth M. Patrick,
*1971
Thomas Park
Thomas Park (1759–1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer, also known as a literary editor.
Life
He was the son of parents who lived at East Acton, Middlesex. When ten years old he was sent to a grammar school at Heighington, County ...
,
*1970
Murray Fife Buell
Murray Fife Buell (October 5, 1905 – July 3, 1975) 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, wher ...
,
*1969
Stanley Adair Cain,
*1968
Victor Ernest Shelford,
*1967
Alfred Edwards Emerson,
*1966
Alfred C. Redfield
Alfred Clarence Redfield (November 15, 1890 – March 17, 1983) was an American oceanographer known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in plankton and ocean water. In 1966, he received the Eminen ...
,
*1965
Paul Bigelow Sears,
*1964
Lee Raymond Dice,
*1963
William Skinner Cooper William Skinner Cooper (25 August 1884 – 8 October 1978) 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 Chan ...
,
*1962
G. Evelyn Hutchinson,
*1961
Charles S. Elton
Charles Sutherland Elton (29 March 1900 – 1 May 1991) was an English zoologist and animal ecologist. He is associated with the development of population and community ecology, including studies of invasive organisms.
Personal life
Charles S ...
,
*1960
Walter Pace Cottam,
*1959
Henry Allen Gleason,
*1958
Arthur William Sampson,
*1957
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist.
Family
Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Kar ...
,
*1956
George Burton Rigg,
*1955
Albert Hazen Wright,
*1954
Henry Shoemaker Conard,
See also
*
List of ecology awards
References
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External links
Ecological Society of America
Awards established in 1954
Ecology awards
American awards