Odum Award - Lifetime Achievement

The Odum Award is named for the three outstanding ecological scientists in the Odum family: Dr. Howard T. Odum; Dr. Eugene P. Odum; and Dr. William E. Odum, III. This award recognizes the lifetime achievements of an outstanding estuarine scientist whose sustained accomplishments have made important contributions to our understanding of estuaries and coastal ecosystems.

Previous Odum Award recipients:

1997    Donald Pritchard, Johns Hopkins University

1999    John Teal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

2001    Lawrence Pomeroy, University of Georgia

2003    Scott Nixon, University of Rhode Island

2005    John Hobbie, Marine Biological Lab

2007    Grace Brush, Johns Hopkins University

2009    Walter Boynton and Michael Kemp, University of Maryland System Center for Environmental Science (CES)

2011    Hans W. Paerl, Institute of Marine Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

2013    Ivan Valiela, Marine Biological Laboratory