Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists
Encyclopedia
The Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists is a prize awarded biennially from 1994 onwards to recognise outstanding individuals within the science of ecology
. The Award is an honorarium of SEK
50,000. The award is given by the Kempe Foundations, Umeå University
and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
in cooperation.
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
. The Award is an honorarium of SEK
Swedish krona
The krona has been the currency of Sweden since 1873. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it, but especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value...
50,000. The award is given by the Kempe Foundations, Umeå University
Umeå University
Umeå University is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders....
and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences or Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet is a university in Sweden. Although its head office is located in Ultuna, Uppsala, the university has several campuses in different parts of Sweden, the other main facilities being Alnarp in Lomma Municipality, Skara,...
in cooperation.
Kempe Award Laureates
- 1994 Stuart L. Pimm
- 1996 F. Stuart Chapin IIIF. Stuart Chapin IIIF. Stuart Chapin III is a professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska...
- 1998 John LawtonJohn Lawton (scientist)Professor Sir John Hartley Lawton, FRS is a British ecologist and RSPB Vice President and Chair of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust....
- 2000 Daniel SimberloffDaniel SimberloffDaniel Simberloff is a biologist and ecologist who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969.Simberloff started his studies in ecology as a student of the biologist E. O. Wilson, one of the co-authors of the theory of Island biogeography . For his Ph.D...
- 2002 David ReadDavid ReadProfessor Sir David Read FRS is Emeritus Professor of Plant Science in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at University of Sheffield. His first degree and PhD came from University of Hull, the latter in 1963...
- 2004 Mary Power
- 2006 Peter M. Vitousek
- 2008 Stephen P. HubbellStephen P. HubbellStephen P. Hubbell is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author and proponent of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography , which seeks to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities. Dr...