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AIBS presents distinguished scientist, outstanding service, education, and other awards at annual meeting. (AIBS News).

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The AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award was presented at the 2003 AIBS Annual Meeting to Harold A. Mooney of Stanford University. Since 1972, the AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award (previously called the Distinguished Service Award) has been presented annually to individuals who have made significant scientific contributions to the biological sciences, in particular in the field of integrative and organismal biology. The award consists of a plaque and lifetime membership in AIBS.

Harold A. Mooney holds the Paul S. Achilles Professorship in environmental biology at Stanford University. His research has centered on the carbon balance of plants, convergent evolution, and the allocation of resources in plants. He is currently engaged in research on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems, especially on productivity and biodiversity, and is also examining those factors that promote the invasions of nonindigenous plant species.

Mooney served as president of the Ecological Society from 1988--1989, president of AIBS in 1993, and has just completed a term as secretary general of the International Council for Science. Currently, he is a scientific panel cochair of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Among his honors, he was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has received the Eminent Ecologist Award and the Mercer Award of the Ecological Society of America, a Humboldt Senior Distinguished US Scientist Award, the Max Planck Research Award, the Ecology Institute Prize for Terrestrial Ecology, the Nevada Medal Award, and the Blue Planet Prize. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Mooney accepted the award with these comments:

I am very appreciative of receiving the Distinguished Scientist Award and would like to thank the American Institute of Biological Sciences for providing it. Science is a cooperative endeavor. We build on the past work of others and work together in the present. Thus,...