Name George Woodwell | Education Dartmouth College | |
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Books The Nature of a House: Building a World that Works, Forests in a Full World | ||
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George M. Woodwell (born October 23, 1930) is an ecologist. He co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund, and did pioneering research on the effects of ionizing radiation on forest ecosystems He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, class of 1950.
Woodwell founded the Woods Hole Research Center in 1985 in Woods Hole, MA as an institute for global environmental research.
He is retired, but retains the title of Director Emeritus. He was one of the first scientists to sound the alarm on climate change, and he first testified to Congress about climate change impacts in 1986.
In 1997 he was awarded the 3rd Annual Heinz Award in the Environment and in 2001 he was awarded the Volvo Environment Prize.
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