Gene E. Likens

1935 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Manchester University

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, National Medal of Science, Blue Planet Prize, Eminent Ecologist Award, ECI Prize, A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Benjamin Franklin Medal, honorary doctorate of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, honorary doctor of Rutgers University, honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, Australia Prize

position held: chairperson

Gene Elden Likens (born January 6, 1935) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York in 1983.A leading pioneer in long-term multidisciplinary ecological studies, Likens examines energy flow and biogeochemical flux models in the ecosystems of forests, streams and lakes. Likens is best known for leading the team of scientists that discovered acid rain in North America, and connected fossil fuels with increasing acidity of precipitation. In addition to its scientific impact, this work has influenced public debate and governmental policy, particularly the United States Congress's Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Source: Wikipedia (en)