George M Woodwell was born on October 23,1928 and is an American ecologist.
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13 Facts About George Woodwell
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George Woodwell founded several programs in ecology, first at Brookhaven National Laboratory then at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and then at the Woods Hole Research Center, which he founded in 1985.
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George Woodwell is best known for his work on the effects of ionizing radiation on forest ecosystems, his work to have the pesticide DDT banned from use in the United States, and his work to call attention to the threat of climate change as a result of combustion of fossil fuels.
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George Woodwell was a founding board member of the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, on whose board he served for 50 years.
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George Woodwell is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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George Woodwell was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to parents who were educators: Philip McIntire George Woodwell and Virginia Sellers.
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George Woodwell attended the Boston Public Latin School and completed his bachelor's degree in biology in 1950 at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
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George Woodwell holds a masters degree and a PhD in Botany from Duke University.
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George Woodwell concluded what is widely-accepted, that organisms with the most sophisticated structure will die first when exposed to chronic stress.
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George Woodwell extrapolated to posit that the results he found in the Long Island forest ecosystem were true of the global ecosystem: that natural systems will degrade in a predictable pattern when exposed to chronic stress.
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George Woodwell has done extensive research on carbon budgeting in North American forests and estuaries.
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George Woodwell was among the first to recognize that climate change created a positive feedback system: that the warming fed the warming, threatening an increase in the pace of climate change over time.
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