Throughout his career John Smol (Biology) has won numerous awards for his work in the field of ecological history. So the fact that his latest recognition has him visibly excited must mean that it is particularly special.

Dr. Smol is this year카지노 게임 컬렉션�s recipient of the International Ecology Institute카지노 게임 컬렉션�s (ECI) top award, the ECI Prize, for his 카지노 게임 컬렉션�leadership in bringing palaeolimnology to bear so effectively on urgent environmental problems.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The award comes with 6,000 euros in prize money and the opportunity to write a book that will be distributed worldwide, but what really excites Dr. Smol is the list of names he will be joining.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�The award has been given out for a couple of decades, and when I look at the list of awardees it's some of my ecological heroes,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I look at the list and I see people like E. O. Wilson, who is a name everyone (in ecology) knows. I see Gene Likens, Steve Carpenter, Ramon Margalef. If you look at the list it includes some of the top ecologists, people I've read since I was a student basically, and then all of a sudden you are on the same list as they are. It felt kind of nice.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The other part that excites Dr. Smol is that the award also recognizes his particular area of study 카지노 게임 컬렉션� ecological history. Dr. Smol and his team use the information gathered from core samples of lake sediments to map out the ecological history of an area. To date it often hadn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t been considered part of mainstream ecological studies. The ECI Prize changes that, he says.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�In some ways it was nice to see the acceptance of the field into a mainstream ecological prize. Whenever I win something, it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s work done by a very dedicated group of graduate students and post-docs. So in many ways it is a group prize,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�But it is also nice for the subject area to be recognized. In some ways it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s recognizing that paleoecology has something quite significant to offer.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

As Dr. Smol explains, one of the biggest challenges for the field of ecology is that there is a lack of long-term monitoring data. For example, there was no one monitoring for acidification of lakes 100 years ago. Søren Sørenson only introduced the pH scale in 1909, he adds.

However through paleoecology, Dr. Smol and his team are hoping to change that.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�We don't have temperature readings going back more than 100-200 years in most areas. We don't have water chemistry. The only way we can get back in time is using the paleo-ecological record to provide that historical context,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�There are 35 people in our lab who are able to push the record back in time using a whole variety of methods.  This information tells them what the environmental conditions were like in the past and where we're going. It reminds us of what we did right, it warns us of what we did wrong.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Dr. Smol will travel to Germany, where the ECI is located, to receive his prize in October.