Thomas E. Lovejoy
George Mason University
August 22, 1941 - December 25, 2021
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Scientific Discipline: Environmental Sciences and Ecology Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2021)
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Thomas Lovejoy, coined the term “biological diversity” (1980). He is the Founder and President of the non-profit Amazon Biodiversity Center and the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in the central Amazon (with INPA, Brazil’s National Institute of Amazon Research). He is University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. He currently serves as Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation Lovejoy has served on science and environmental councils under the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations and as Science Envoy under Obama and Biden. In the 1980s, he brought international attention to the world’s tropical rainforests and has worked in the Brazilian Amazon. since 1965. He is co-editor of three books on climate change and biodiversity He founded Nature, the long-term series on public television. In 2001, Lovejoy was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. In 2009 he was the winner of BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology . He is Explorer at Large at the National Geographic. In 2012 he was recognized by the Blue Planet Prize. He holds B.S. and PhD (biology) degrees from Yale University.
