The ECI Prize is a prize awarded annually from 1986 onwards to an

ecologist 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 ...

distinguished by outstanding and sustained scientific achievements. It is awarded jointly by the International Ecology Institute, a non-profit organization of research ecologists based in

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dedicated to fostering ecological knowledge and awareness, and the Otto Kinne Foundation. The prize both honors the recipient and requires him or her to serve science and society by authoring a book to be published in the series 'Excellence in Ecology', published by Inter-Research and available at cost price. The ECI Prize carries an endowment of

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6,000 and is awarded alternatively for

terrestrial ecology Soil ecology is the study of the interactions among soil organisms, and between biotic and abiotic aspects of the soil environment. It is particularly concerned with the cycling of nutrients, formation and stabilization of the pore structure, the ...

marine ecology Marine ecosystems are the largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems and exist in waters that have a high salt content. These systems contrast with freshwater ecosystems, which have a lower salt content. Marine waters cover more than 70% of the surf ...

and limnetic ecology.

ECI Prize Laureates

Source
Ecology Institute
*1986

Tom Fenchel Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

, marine ecology *1987

Edward O. Wilson Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, entomologist and writer. According to David Attenborough, Wilson was the world's leading expert in his specialty of myrmecology, the study of a ...

, terrestrial ecology *1988

Gene Likens Gene Elden Likens (born January 6, 1935) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbro ...

, limnetic ecology *1989 Robert T. Paine , marine ecology *1990

Harold A. Mooney Harold A. "Hal" Mooney (born June 1, 1932 in Santa Rosa, California) is an American ecologist and professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1960 and was employed by University of Cal ...

, terrestrial ecology *1991 Robert H. Peters , limnetic ecology *1992 David H. Cushing , marine ecology *1993

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of St ...

, terrestrial ecology *1994 Colin S. Reynolds , limnetic ecology *1995

Ramon Margalef Ramon Margalef i López (Barcelona 16 May 1919 - 23 May 2004) was a Spanish biologist and ecologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Margalef, one of the most prominent scientists th ...

, marine ecology *1996 John Lawton , terrestrial ecology *1997 Maciej Gliwicz , limnetic ecology *1998 Richard T. Barber , marine ecology *1999

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 ...

, terrestrial ecology *2000

Stephen R. Carpenter Stephen Russell Carpenter (born July 5, 1952) is an American lake ecologist who focuses on lake eutrophication which is the over-enrichment of lake ecosystems leading to toxic blooms of micro-organisms and fish kills. Early life Born in Kansas ...

, limnetic ecology *2001

Louis Legendre Louis Legendre (22 May 1752 – 13 December 1797) was a French politician of the Revolution period. Early activities Born at Versailles, he was keeping a butcher's shop in Saint Germain, Paris, by 1789. He was an ardent supporter of the ideas ...

, marine ecology *2002

Michel Loreau Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

, terrestrial ecology *2003 Jonathan J. Cole , limnetic ecology *2004

Bo Barker Jørgensen Bo or BO may refer to Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theatre *Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives *'' BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film * ''Bo'' (film), a ...

, marine ecology *2005 Robert D. Holt , terrestrial ecology *2006

Winfried Lampert Winfried is a masculine German given name. Notable people with the name include: * Winfried Berkemeier (born 1953), former German footballer *Winfried Bischoff (born 1941), German-British businessperson * Winfried Bönig (born 1959), German organis ...

, limnetic ecology *2007

Daniel Pauly Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries and in 2020 was the most cited fisheries scientist in the world. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us ...

, marine ecology *2008

Monica Turner Monica G. Turner is an American ecologist known for her work at Yellowstone National Park since the large fires of 1988. She is currently the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Life and career Turne ...

, terrestrial ecology *2009 Brian Moss , limnetic ecology *2010

Paul Falkowski Paul G. Falkowski (born 1951) is an American biological oceanographer in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His research work focuses on phytoplankton and primary production, and hi ...

, marine ecology *2011

Georgina Mace Dame Georgina Mary Mace, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (12 July 1953 – 19 September 2020) was a British ecologist and conservation scientist. She was Professor of Biodiver ...

, terrestrial ecology *2012 Alan Hildrew , limnetic ecology *2013

Antje Boetius Antje Boetius (born 5 March 1967) is a German people, German marine biology, marine biologist. She is a professor of geomicrobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen.

, marine ecology *2014

William H. Schlesinger William H. Schlesinger (born April 30, 1950) is a biogeochemist and the retired president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, an independent not-for-profit environmental research organization in Millbrook, New York. He assumed that pos ...

, terrestrial ecology *2015 John Smol , limnetic ecology *2016

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-be ...

, marine ecology *2017 Kevin Gaston , terrestrial ecology *2018 Lars Tranvik , freshwater ecology *2019 Nils Christian Stenseth {{flagicon, Norway, marine ecology * 2023 William J. Sutherland

External links

ECI Prize website
Awards established in 1986 Ecology awards

ECI Prize Laureates

See also

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