Awards > Eminent Ecologist Award

The Eminent Ecologist Award is given to a senior ecologist in recognition of an outstanding body of ecological work or of sustained ecological contributions of extraordinary merit. Nominees may be from any country and need not be ESA members. Recipients receive lifetime, active membership in the Society.

2006    Daniel Simberloff ( -  ) 

2005    Lawrence B. Slobodkin ( - )

2004    Samuel Joseph McNaughton (August 10, 1939 - )

2003    Richard Bruce Root  (September 7, 1936 - )

2002    Charles J. Krebs   (September 17, 1936 - )

2001    Paul R. Ehrlich   (May 29, 1932- )

2000    Robert Treat Paine   (April 13, 1933 - )

1999   Crawford S. Holling (December 6, 1930 - )

1998   Gordon Howell Orians  (July 10, 1932 - )

1997   Frances Crews James    (September 29, 1930 - )

1996   Harold A. Mooney   (June 1, 1932 - )

1995   Gene Elden Likens   (January 6, 1935 - )

1995   Frederick Herbert Bormann   (March 24, 1922 - )

1994   Edward Osborne Wilson   (June 10, 1929 - )

1993   Margaret Byron Davis   (October 23, 1931 - )

1992   Frank Alois Pitelka   (March 27, 1916 - October 10, 2003) [ Resolution ]

1991   William Dwight Billings  (December 29, 1910  - January 4, 1997) [Resolultion]

1991   Nelson George Hairston   (October 16, 1917 - )

1990   William Edwin Ricker  (August 11, 1908 - September 8, 2001)

1989   George Christopher Williams   (May 12, 1926 - )

1988   Herbert Groves Andrewartha   (December 21, 1907 - January 27, 1992 ) 

1988   Louis Christopher Birch   (February 8, 1918 - )

1987   Archie Fairly Carr, Jr.   (June 16, 1909 - May 21, 1987)

1986   Evelyn Christine Pielou   (February 20, 1924 - )

1985   Joseph H. Connell   (October 5, 1923 - )

1984   John Lander Harper   (May 27, 1925 - )

1983   Walles Thomas Edmondson (April 24, 1916 - January 11, 2000) [ Resolution ]

1982   Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.   (December 3, 1914 - November 29, 1988) [ Obituary ]

1981   Robert Hardin Whittaker   (December 27, 1920 - October 20, 1980)

1980   Donald Ward Tinkle   (December 3, 1930 - February 21, 1980)

1979   Rexford F. Daubenmire   (December 12, 1909 – August 27, 1995)

1978   Samuel Charles Kendeigh   (December 18, 1904 - November 13, 1986)

1977   Walton Byron McDougall  (December 10, 1883 - December 25, 1980)

1976   Alton Anthony Lindsay (May 7, 1907 - January 2, 2000) [ Resolution ]

1975   Cornelius Herman Muller   (July 22, 1909 - January 26, 1997)

1974   Eugene Pleasants Odum   (September 17, 1913 - August 10, 2002) [ Resolution ]

1973   Robert Helmer MacArthur   (April 7, 1930 - November 1, 1972)  

1972   Ruth Myrtle Patrick  (November 26, 1907 - )

1971   Thomas Park   (November 17, 1908 - March 30, 1992)

1970   Murray Fife Buell   (October 6, 1905 - July 3, 1975)

1969   Stanley Adair Cain  (June 19, 1902 – April 1, 1995)

1968   Victor Ernest Shelford (September 22, 1877 - December 27, 1968)

1966   Alfred Clarence Redfield (November 15, 1890 - March 17, 1983)

1967   Alfred Edwards Emerson (December 31, 1896 - October 3, 1976)

1965   Paul Bigelow Sears (December 17, 1891- April 30, 1990)

1964   Lee Raymond Dice (July 15, 1887 - January 31, 1977)

1963   William Skinner Cooper (August 25, 1884 - October 8, 1978)

1962   George Evelyn Hutchinson (January 30, 1903 - May 17, 1991)

1961   Charles Sutherlan Elton (March 29, 1900 - Mary 1, 1991)

1960   Walter Pace Cottam (March 3, 1894 - December 23, 1988)

1959   Henry Allen Gleason (January 2, 1882 - April 21, 1975)

1958   Arthur William Sampson (March 27, 1884 - February 7, 1967)

1957   Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 - September 27, 1957)

1956   George Burton Rigg (February 9, 1872 - July 10, 1961)

1955   Albert Hazen Wright (August 15, 1879 - July 5, 1970)

1954   Henry Shoemaker Conard (September 12, 1874 - October 7, 1991)

1953*  Henry Allen Gleason (January 2, 1882 - April 21, 1975)
* = "Distinguished Ecologist" in Bulletin