Year Environmental Study Author: Phil Beck
Date:January 10, 1994, pp.23
Year Environmental Study F. Herbert Bormann and Gene E. Likens, whose ongoing, 30- year ecosystem study has led to fundamental discoveries that have changed environmental law and international policy, have received the 1993 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The $150,000 prize, established by John and Alice Tyler in 1973 and administered under the auspices of the University of Southern California, was presented last month in Los Angeles.
The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, centered in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire, came about when Bormann, an agricultural scientist, joined forces with Likens, a zoologist, while they were both on the faculty of Dartmouth College in the early 1960s. Together they conceived and developed the idea of using a small watershed to conduct whole-forest ecosystem experiments. Through conventional scientific methods, long-term observations, and ecological modeling, they were able to ...
