The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science,

environmental health Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural environment, natural and built environment affecting human health. To effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements for a hea ...

, and

energy Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ...

. Tyler Laureates receive a $250,000 cash prize and a medallion. The prize is administered by the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

and was established by John and Alice Tyler in 1973. It is regarded as the "Nobel for environment".

History

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement was founded in 1973 by John and Alice Tyler and was launched by

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party a ...

while serving as

Governor of California The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California. The Governor (United States), governor is the commander-in-chief of the California National Guard and the California State Guard. Established in the Constit ...

. It was funded with a gift of $5 million by Jack Tyler and was initially administered by

Pepperdine University Pepperdine University () is a private university, private Christianity, Christian research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ, with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pepperdine's main campus consists ...

Laureates

* 2025: Sandra Díaz and Eduardo Brondízio * 2024: Johan Rockström * 2023:

Daniel Pauly Dr. Sir Daniel Pauly is a France, 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 ...

and Ussif Rashid Sumaila * 2022: Sir Andrew Haines * 2020:

Gretchen Daily Gretchen C. Daily (born October 19, 1964) is an American environmental scientist and tropical ecologist. She has contributed to understanding humanity's dependence and impacts on nature, and to advancing a systematic approach for valuing nature i ...

and Pavan Sukhdev * 2019: Michael E. Mann and Warren M. Washington * 2018: Paul Falkowski and James J. McCarthy * 2017: José Sarukhán Kermez * 2016: Sir Partha S. Dasgupta * 2015:

Madhav Gadgil Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the ''Centre for Ecological Sciences'', a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former membe ...

and Jane Lubchenco * 2014: Simon A. Levin * 2013: Diana Wall * 2012: John H. Seinfeld and Kirk R. Smith * 2011: May R. Berenbaum * 2010: Laurie Marker and Stuart Pimm * 2009: Richard B. Alley and Veerabhadran Ramanathan * 2008: and Harold Mooney * 2007: Gatze Lettinga * 2006: David W. Schindler and Igor A. Shiklomanov * 2005: Charles D. Keeling and Lonnie G. Thompson * 2004: Barefoot College and Red Latinoamericana de Botanica * 2003: Hans Herren, Yoel Margalith and Sir Richard Doll who established the link between lung cancer and cigarette smoking. * 2002: Wallace S. Broecker and Tungsheng Liu * 2001: Jared M. Diamond and Thomas E. Lovejoy * 2000: John P. Holdren * 1999: Te-Tzu Chang and Joel E. Cohen * 1998:

Anne H. Ehrlich Anne Howland Ehrlich (born Anne Fitzhugh Howland; November 17, 1933) is an American scientist and author who is best known for the predictions she made as a co-author of ''The Population Bomb'' with her colleague and husband, Paul R. Ehrlich. She ...

and

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population ...

* 1997:

Jane Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, Primatology, primatologist and Anthropology, anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremo ...

, Biruté Galdikas and George Schaller * 1996: Willi Dansgaard, Hans Oeschger and Claude Lorius * 1995: Clair C. Patterson * 1994: Arturo Gomez-Pompa and Peter H. Raven * 1993: F. Herbert Bormann and Gene E. Likens * 1992: Perry McCarty and Robert M. White * 1991:

C. Everett Koop Charles Everett Koop (October 14, 1916 – February 25, 2013) was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator who served as the 13th surgeon general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989. According ...

and M. S. Swaminathan * 1990:

Thomas Eisner Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and director of the ...

and Jerrold Meinwald * 1989: Paul J. Crutzen and Edward D. Goldberg * 1988: Bert R. J. Bolin * 1987:

Richard E. Schultes Richard Evans Schultes (''SHULL-tees'';Jonathan Kandell ''The New York Times'', April 13, 2001, Accessed April 26, 2020. January 12, 1915 – April 10, 2001) was an American biologist, considered to be the father of modern ethnobotany. He is kno ...

and Gilbert F. White * 1986: Werner Stumm and Richard Vollenweider * 1985: Bruce N. Ames and the Organization for Tropical Studies * 1984: Roger R. Revelle and Edward O. Wilson * 1983: Harold S. Johnston, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland * 1982: Carroll L. Wilson and the Southern California Edison Company * 1978: Russell E. Train * 1977: Eugene P. Odum * 1976: Abel Wolman, Charles S. Elton and Rene Dubos * 1975:

Ruth Patrick Ruth Myrtle Patrick (November 26, 1907 – September 23, 2013) was an American botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology. She authored more than 200 scientific papers, developed ways to measure the health of freshwa ...

* 1974: Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, G. Evelyn Hutchinson and

Maurice Strong Maurice Frederick Strong, (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.E Masood (2015) Maurice Strong, Nature 528(7583), 480. Strong ...

Executive committee

The Executive Committee oversees the activities of the Tyler Prize, including the selection of Tyler Prize Laureates. Members of this international Committee are selected for their experience in the fields of relevance to the Tyler Prize and are assisted by the Tyler Prize Administrator, based at the University of Southern California. The current committee consists of: * Julia Marton-Lefèvre * Rosina M. Bierbaum * Julia Carabias Lillo * Margaret Catley-Carlson * Alan Covich * Exequiel Ezcurra * Kelly Sims Gallagher * Judith E. McDowell * Kenneth Nealson * Jonathan Patz *Jim Watson

References

External links

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
at

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
{{Ronald Reagan Environmental awards Pepperdine University University of Southern California American awards 1973 establishments in the United States Awards established in 1973

History

Laureates

Executive committee

See also

References

External links