{"id":5956,"date":"2017-03-11T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T02:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:35:58","slug":"r-h-whittaker-distinguished-ecologist-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2017\/03\/r-h-whittaker-distinguished-ecologist-award\/","title":{"rendered":"R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist award recognizes an ecologist with an earned doctorate and an outstanding record of contributions in ecology who is not a U.S. citizen and who resides outside the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-3\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-3\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Year<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Full Name<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Last Name<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">ESA Bulletin<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2023<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Volker Grimm<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Grimm<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/esa-announces-recipients-of-2023-awards\/?utm_source=Informz&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=ESA&amp;_zs=U6gil&amp;_zl=HqlV2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2021<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Juan J. Armesto<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Armesto<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/2021-Awards.pdf#page=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2020<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">David A. Wardle<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Wardle<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/2020-Awards.pdf#page=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2019<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Jingyun Fang<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Fang<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/2019-Awards.pdf#page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2018<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">David B. Lindenmayer<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Lindenmayer<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/bes2.1406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2017<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Petr Py\u0161ek<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Py\u0161ek<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/bes2.1320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2016<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Ezatollah<br>\nKarami<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Karami<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/whittaker2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2016<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Negrete-Yankelevich<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/whittaker2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2015<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Inderjit<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Inderjit<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/whittaker2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2014<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Richard Shine<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Shine<\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-3 from cache -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist award recognizes an ecologist with an earned doctorate and an outstanding record of contributions in ecology who is not a U.S. citizen and who resides outside the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":8910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}