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UGA professor Stephen Hubbell named winner of major British ecological award
Writer: Phil Williams, 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu
Contact: Stephen Hubbell, 706/583-0393, shubbell@plantbio.uga.edu
Sep 7, 2004, 08:00
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Athens, Ga. – Stephen P. Hubbell, a Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia, has been named winner of the Marsh Award – the top honor given each year by the British Ecological Society (BES). He will receive the honor at the University of Lancaster in England on Sept. 9.
The Marsh Award is sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust and is given for the discovery or conceptual advance that has had the greatest recent impact in ecology. The BES is awarding the honor to Hubbell for his unified neutral theory.
“The best awards are the kinds you have no idea of getting. I feel very honored and honestly amazed,” said Hubbell, who last year was named to a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “This was completely unexpected.”
The Marsh Award for ecology recognizes exceptional achievements and contributions. The award is an honorarium of £1,000 plus a certificate. It is open to scientists from anywhere in the world.
The neutral theory in ecology predicts patterns of biodiversity over geographical spatial scales and evolutionary timescales, including the number of species and their commonness and rarity.
In addition to his appointment at UGA, Hubbell is a senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is an internationally known ecologist whose research is on tropical rainforests and in theoretical ecology. He has published three books and more than 120 scientific papers in tropical plant ecology, plant-animal interactions and theoretical ecology.
He is founder and chairman of the board of the National Council for Science and the Environment, a national organization with more than 10,000 members and the participation of more than 200 universities and professional societies. The mission of the NCSE is improving the science underlying environmental decision-making. Hubbell is also co-founder and board member of the Center for Tropical Forest Science, which manages a global network of permanent tropical forest research plots.
In addition, he is the creator of a well-known educational board game, “Extinction: The Game of Ecology.”
He is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow, a Pew Scholar and a nominee for the Crafoord Prize – the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, which is not awarded in ecology.
The British Ecological Society was established in 1913 by academics to promote and foster the study of ecology in its widest sense. The group currently has approximately 4,500 members around the world. The core activities are the publication of results of research in ecology, the development of scientific meetings and the promotion of ecological awareness through education at all levels.
In addition to the Marsh Award for Ecology, the group also each year awards the Marsh Ecology Book of the Year.
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