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Bullet announcements · Dec 28, 2021

AIBS Mourns the Loss of Visionary Ecologist Thomas E. Lovejoy III

AIBS mourns the loss of visionary ecologist Thomas E. Lovejoy III. Dr. Lovejoy was the AIBS President in 1994. In 2012, he received the AIBS Outstanding Service Award, an award given annually in recognition of individuals’ and organizations’ noteworthy service to the biological sciences. Earlier this year, he joined us for an episode of our podcast BioScience Talks oral history series, In Their Own Words. He died on December 25, 2021 in McLean, Virginia. He was 80.

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