The Marsh Ecology Award is a prize awarded annually from 1996 onwards to recognise outstanding recent discovery or development which has had a significant impact on the development of 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 overlaps wi ...

or its application. The Award is an honorarium of £1,000 and is open to

ecologists This is a list of notable ecologists. A-D * John Aber (USA) * Aziz Ab'Saber (Brazil) * Charles Christopher Adams (USA) * Warder Clyde Allee (USA) * Herbert G. Andrewartha (Australia) * Sarah Martha Baker ( UK) * Fakhri A. Bazzaz (USA) * Joh ...

from anywhere in the world. The award is given by the

Marsh Charitable Trust Marsh Charitable Trust, also known as Marsh Christian Trust, is a national charity in the United Kingdom, based in London. It is a registered charity under English law, and was established in 1981 by Brian Marsh, the current Chairman. Marsh was app ...

and the

British Ecological Society The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913. It is the oldest ecological society in the world. The Society's original objective was "to promote and foster the study of Ecology in its widest ...

in cooperation.

Marsh Ecology Award Laureates

Source
British Ecological Society
*1996 John Lawton *1997 J. Philip Grime *1998 Tim H. Clutton-Brock *1999 John L. Harper *2000 William J. Sutherland *2001 Sam Berry *2002 James H. Brown *2003 Andrew Watkinson *2004

Stephen P. Hubbell Stephen P. Hubbell (born 17 February 1942) is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (UNTB), which seeks to explain the divers ...

*2005

Ilkka Hanski Ilkka Aulis Hanski (14 February 1953 – 10 May 2016) was a Finnish ecologist at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The Metapopulation Research Center led by Hanski, until his death, has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy ...

*2006 Phil Ineson *2007

Christian Körner Christian Körner (born 29 March 1949) is an Austrian–Swiss botanist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel. He is one of the world's most renowned scientists in the field of alpine climate, alpine plant ecology. Life Körner was bo ...

*2008 ''not awarded'' *2009 Michael Begon *2010

Jeremy Thomas Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE (born 26 July 1949) is a British film producer, founder and chairman of Recorded Picture Company. He produced Bernardo Bertolucci's ''The Last Emperor'', which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he rece ...

*2011

E.J. Milner-Gulland Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland (born 3 June 1967) is the Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity and head of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science. She is particu ...

*2012 Tim Coulson *2013 Kevin J. Gaston *2014

Rosie Woodroffe Rosemary Brigitte Woodroffe is a British ecologist and academic. Education Woodroffe was educated at the Somerville College, Oxford and was awarded Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 for research on fact ...

*2015 Jane Memmott *2016 Lynne Boddy *2017

Sandra Lavorel Sandra Lavorel (born 1965 in Lyon) is a French ecologist specializing in functional ecology. She is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research ( CNRS) where she works at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory in Grenoble, F ...

*2018

Kathy Willis Katherine Jane Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown, (born 16 January 1964) is a British biologist, academic and life peer, who studies the relationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change. She is Professor of Biodive ...

*2019 Andy Purvis * 2020 Teja Tscharntke * 2021 Julia Koricheva

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Marsh Christian Trust
British science and technology awards Awards established in 1996 Ecology awards 1996 establishments in the United Kingdom

Marsh Ecology Award Laureates

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