Harold A. Mooney
Academic
1932 –
Who is Harold A. Mooney?
Harold A. "Hal" Mooney is an American ecologist and professor from Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1960 and was employed by University of California-Los Angeles the same year. He joined the staff at Stanford University in 1968. He is an expert on plants and the functioning of ecosystems from the Tropics to the Arctic. He is a highly cited scientist.
Hal Mooney has served as chairman of the United States National Research Council Committee on Ecosystem Management for Sustainable Marine Fisheries. He has been a coordinator of the United Nations Global Biodiversity Assessment. He has been president of the Ecological Society of America and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also elected foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the British Ecological Society.
He was the 1990 recipient of the ECI Prize in terrestrial ecology. He has received the Max Planck Research Award in biosciences and been given the Eminent Ecologist Award for 1996 by Ecological Society of America. In 2007, he received the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology.
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- Born
- Jun 1, 1932
Santa Rosa - Also known as
- Harold Mooney
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Duke University
Plant ecology
( - 1960)
- PhD, Duke University
- Employment
- Professor, Stanford University
- Lived in
- California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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