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Important Personalities

August 12, 2007      

Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Dr. G. Evelyn Hutchinson a.k.a. Father of modern Limnology, and the modern Darwin!

Contents (a selection among our members/associates and other leaders):

• Salutations to Michael Barbour PhD

• Salutations to Robert W. Bode

• Prof. Dr. Jack Burney PhD PEng, one of our founding subscribers, TUNS

• Salutations to the numero uno expert in cyanobacterial toxins, Prof. Dr. Wayne Carmichael

• Prof. Dr. Peter Dillon FRSC (PDF document)

• François-Alphonse Forel (February 2, 1841 - August 7, 1912) was a Swiss scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder of limnology

• Leaders in the freshwater benthic Diversity and Biotic Indices - Dedications to Robert Bode, Gerrie Mackie PhD, and James Plafkin PhD

• Gene Likens PhD:

  • Recipient of the first G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award in 1982; it was awarded to Likens by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

  • Likens is best known for his long-term studies of acid rain, his long-term and collaborative research at Hubbard Brook on biogeochemical cycles in forested ecosystems, and for initiating and developing the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY.

• Salutations to Prof. Gerald L. Mackie PhD

• Prof. Pete Ogden III Jr. PhD, one of our founding subscribers, Dalhousie University (several half-hour Tv shows were produced with him; a 2:18 minute excerpt from one of the shows in WMV format).

• David Pask MEng PEng, the inventor of the Contour Disposal beds the use of which is expanding all over North America!

• Prof. Dr. John Smol FRSC; he kindly graced the residence of Shalom Mandaville in 2004:

  • Recipient of the 2007 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award; it was awarded to Smol by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) for his outstanding contributions and leadership in bridging paleolimnology with limnology, ecology, and the environmental sciences, as well as his seminal work on polar limnology and environmental change.

• Salutations to Keith M. Somers PhD

• The genius of Richard A. Vollenweider, PhD:

  • Recipient of the 1986/87 Naumann-Thienemann Medal, the highest honour that can be bestowed internationally for outstanding scientific contributions to limnology which is awarded by the International Association of Limnology (SIL)

• Salutations to Prof. Dr. Robert G. Wetzel PhD:

  • Recipient of the 1992 Naumann-Thienemann Medal, the highest honour that can be bestowed internationally for outstanding scientific contributions to limnology which is awarded by the International Association of Limnology (SIL)

  • Recipient of the 1992 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award; it was awarded to Wetzel by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) for his studies of aquatic macrophytes, periphyton, and dissolved organic matter that have led to new understandings about the structure and function of lakes and wetland ecosystems.

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