James S. Clark

National National Academy of Sciences · 2020 Primary Section: 63, Environmental Sciences and Ecology Secondary Section: 64, Human Environmental Sciences More about this award

Make Our Planet Great Again Lauréat

International Emmanuel Macron · 2018

Humboldt Research Prize

International von Humboldt Foundation · 2017

Chief of the Forest Service Science Award

National USFS · 2016

Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

National Ecological Society of America · December 2012

ISI Highly Cited Researcher

National The Institute for Scientific Information · January 2011

Fellows

National American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2005 Area: Biological Sciences; Specialty: Evolution and Ecology More about this award

Highly Cited Researcher

National Thomson Reuters · 2001

Leopold Leadership Fellowship

National Aldo Leopold Foundation · 1999

George Mercer Award

National Ecological Society of America · 1994

NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow

National National Science Foundation · 1994

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