Eminent Ecologist Award
The Eminent Ecologist Award began in 1953 as the Distinguished Ecologist Award and was given its current name the following year. It is presented to a senior ecologist in recognition of an outstanding body of ecological work or of sustained ecological contributions of extraordinary merit.
Our Twitter series of little known facts about award recipients is presented here.
| Year | Full Name | Last Name | ESA Bulletin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Gretchen Daily | Daily | Link |
| 2022 | Jianguo (Jack) Liu | Liu | Link |
| 2021 | Steward T. A. Pickett | Pickett | Link |
| 2020 | Monica G. Turner | Turner | Link |
| 2019 | Robert D. Holt | Holt | Link |
| 2018 | F. Stuart Chapin | Chapin | Link |
| 2017 | Diana Harrison Wall | Wall | Link |
| 2016 | Jerry F. Franklin | Franklin | Link |
| 2015 | Eric R. Pianka | Pianka | Link |
| 2014 | Jane Lubchenco | Lubchenco | Link |
| 2013 | William A. Reiners | Reiners | Link |
| 2012 | Robert J. Naiman | Naiman | Link |
| 2011 | Thomas G. Whitham | Whitham | Link |
| 2010 | Simon Asher Levin | Levin | Link |
| 2009 | Stephen Philip Hubbell | Hubbell | Link |
| 2008 | Michael Leo Rosenzweig | Rosenzweig | Link |
| 2007 | Otto Lange | Lange | Link |
| 2006 | Daniel S. Simberloff | Simberloff | Link |
| 2005 | Lawrence Basil Slobodkin | Slobodkin | Link |
| 2004 | Samuel Joseph McNaughton | McNaughton | Link |
| 2003 | Richard Bruce Root | Root | Link |
| 2002 | Charles J. Krebs | Krebs | Link |
| 2001 | Paul Ralph Ehrlich | Ehrlich | Link |
| 2000 | Robert Treat Paine | Paine | Link |
| 1999 | Crawford Stanley Holling | Holling | Link |
| 1998 | Gordon Howell Orians | Orians | Link |
| 1997 | Frances Crews James | James | Link |
| 1996 | Harold A. Mooney | Mooney | Link |
| 1995 | Frederick Herbert Bormann   | Bormann   | Link |
| 1995 | Gene Elden Likens | Likens | Link |
| 1994 | Edward Osborne Wilson | Wilson | Link |
| 1993 | Margaret Bryan Davis | Davis | Link |
| 1992 | Frank Alois Pitelka | Pitelka | Link |
| 1991 | William Dwight Billings | Billings | Link |
| 1991 | Nelson George Hairston | Hairston | Link |
| 1990 | William Edwin Ricker | Ricker | Link |
| 1989 | George Christopher Williams | Williams | Link |
| 1988 | Herbert Groves Andrewartha | Andrewartha | Link |
| 1988 | Louis Charles Birch | Birch | Link |
| 1987 | Archie Fairly Carr Jr. | Carr | Link |
| 1986 | Evelyn Christine Pielou | Pielou | Link |
| 1985 | Joseph H. Connell | Connell | Link |
| 1984 | John Lander Harper | Harper | Link |
| 1983 | Walles Thomas Edmondson | Edmondson | Link |
| 1982 | Edward Smith Deevey Jr. | Deevey | Link |
| 1981 | Robert Harding Whittaker | Whittaker | Link |
| 1980 | Donald Ward Tinkle | Tinkle | Link |
| 1979 | Rexford F. Daubenmire | Daubenmire | Link |
| 1978 | Samuel Charles Kendeigh | Kendeigh | Link |
| 1977 | Walton Byron McDougall  | McDougall  | Link |
| 1976 | Alton Anthony Lindsey | Lindsey | Link |
| 1975 | Cornelius Herman Muller  | Muller  | Link |
| 1974 | Eugene Pleasants Odum | Odum | Link |
| 1973 | Robert Helmer MacArthur  | MacArthur  | Link |
| 1972 | Ruth Myrtle Patrick | Patrick | no citation published |
| 1971 | Thomas Park | Park | Link |
| 1970 | Murray Fife Buell | Buell | Link |
| 1969 | Stanley Adair Cain | Cain | Link |
| 1968 | Victor Ernest Shelford | Shelford | Link |
| 1967 | Alfred Edwards Emerson | Emerson | Link |
| 1966 | Alfred Clarence Redfield | Redfield | Link |
| 1965 | Paul Bigelow Sears | Sears | Link |
| 1964 | Lee Raymond Dice | Dice | Link |
| 1963 | William Skinner Cooper | Cooper | Link |
| 1962 | George Evelyn Hutchinson | Hutchinson | Link |
| 1961 | Charles Sutherlan Elton | Elton | Link |
| 1960 | Walter Pace Cottam | Cottam | Link |
| 1959 | Henry Allan Gleason | Gleason | Link |
| 1958 | Arthur William Sampson | Sampson | Link |
| 1957 | Karl Patterson Schmidt | Schmidt | Link |
| 1956 | George Burton Rigg | Rigg | Link |
| 1955 | Albert Hazen Wright | Wright | Link |
| 1954 | Henry Shoemaker Conard | Conard | Link |
| 1953 | Henry Allan Gleason | Gleason | Link |