John H. Lawton#
| Email: | dandj 'at' snotrag.fsnet.co.uk |
| Membership Number: | 2395 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY |
| Username: | jlawton |
Present and Previous Positions
- Department of Zoology, University of Durham: Undergraduate 1962-1965 (1st Class Honours Degree, 1965)
- Research student 1965-1968 (PhD 1969)
- Demonstrator in Animal Ecology, Department of Zoology, Oxford University,(1968-1971)
- Lecturer, University of York (1971-78)
- Senior Lecturer (1978-82)
- Reader (1982-85)
- Professor (personal chair) (1985-1989).
- Director, NERC Centre for Population Biology and Professor of Community Ecology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (1989 - 1999)
- Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council (1999- 2005)
- Chairman, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (2005- continuing)
Fields of Scholarship
- theoretical and experimental population dynamics and community ecology
- impacts of global environmental change on populations, communities and ecosystems
- biological pest control
- the use of controlled environment facilities for ecological research
- large scale patterns and processes in ecology
- biodiversity and conservation
- biodiversity and ecosystem processes
- environmental science/policy interface
Honours and Awards
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1989.
- CBE in The Queens Birthday Honours List, 1997.
- KBE (Knighted) in the New Year Honours list, 2005.
- Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
- Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
- Japan Prize, Science and Technology for Conservation of Biodiversity, 2004
- Honorary degrees: Lancaster1993; Birmingham 2005; York 2005; Aberdeen 2006; East Anglia 2006
- Fellowship of Imperial College 2006
- President's Gold Medal of the British Ecological Society, 1987.
- ECI Prize Winner 1996 in the Field of Terrestrial Ecology.
- British Ecological Society's Marsh Award for Ecology, 1996.
- Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists, Sweden, 1998.
- Zoological Society of London Frink Medal, 1998.
- Honorary Life Member, Royal Entomological Society, 2001.
- Society for Conservation Biology La Roe Award, 2002.
- Elected member Academia Europaea, 2006.
- Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Science,
- Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, 2007
- Fellow of WF-UK, 2008
- Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society, 2009
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