Gene Elden Likens was born on January 6,1935 and is an American limnologist and ecologist.
22 Facts About Gene Likens
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Gene Likens co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York in 1983.
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Gene Likens is best known for leading the team of scientists that discovered acid rain in North America, and connected fossil fuels with increasing acidity of precipitation.
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Gene Likens was an instructor and associate professor at Dartmouth College from 1963 to 1969.
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Gene Likens has extensively studied biogeochemical cycles describing the flow of matter within ecosystems.
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Gene Likens has done important work on deforestation and its potential impact on the chemistry of watersheds.
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Gene Likens' work is considered "classic", and he is credited with establishing a "guiding paradigm" for other ecologists.
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Gene Likens served as an associate professor from 1969 to 1972, and as a full professor from 1972 to 1983.
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In 1983 Gene Likens founded the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York as part of the New York Botanical Garden.
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In 2007 Gene Likens stepped down as director of the IES and returned to full-time research, currently at the University of Connecticut and as visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
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Gene Likens has published 25 books and more than 580 papers and book chapters.
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Gene Likens's work has influenced the United States Congress on issues such as the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
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Gene Likens has been active in a variety of organizations, and has been the vice-president and president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; vice-president, president and honorary Fellow of the Ecological Society of America; president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences; and president of the International Society of Limnology.
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Gene Likens has received a substantial number of awards and honors of various kinds.
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Gene Likens was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979, and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
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Gene Likens was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1988, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1994 and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2000.
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Gene Likens became an elected member in biological sciences of the American Philosophical Society in 2006.
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Gene Likens's awards include the 1988 ECI Prize in Limnetic Ecology, the 1993 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and the 2001 Huxley Medal of the Institute of Biology, London, UK.
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Gene Likens received a 2001 National Medal of Science from President George W Bush on June 13,2002.
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Gene Likens has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees internationally as well as nationally.
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In 2018 Gene Likens was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Gene Likens has seven grandchildren, Sierra, Maxwell, Samuel, Joseph, Noah, Louis, and Jason.