Jeremy Jackson (scientist)
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Jeremy Jackson doing the presentation at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 2010
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| Born | Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson November 13, 1942 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Marine biologist, paleontologist |
| Institutions |
University of California, San Diego Smithsonian Institution |
| Alma mater | Ph.D. Yale University, 1971 George Washington University |
| Notable awards |
Benchley Award for Science (2009) |
| Spouse | Nancy Knowlton (m. 1983) |
| Children | 3 |
Benchley Award for Science (2009)
Harvard Museum of Natural History Roger Tory Peterson Medal (2008)
Edward T. LaRoe Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Conservation Biology (2007)
International Award for Research in Ecology and conservation Biology of the
Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson (born November 13, 1942) is an American marine ecologist, paleontologist and a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California as well as a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama. He has published over 150 scientific publications – 18 of which are in Science – and has written seven books.
Jackson was born in Louisville, Kentucky but had moved to New York City by the age of one. He grew up in Miami, Florida and Washington, D.C.. He completed his bachelor in zoology at George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in geology from Yale University in 1971. Jeremy Jackson is married to Nancy Knowlton. They met in the Caribbean and married in 1983. They have one daughter, Rebecca. Jackson also has a son, Stephen, from a previous marriage.
Dr. Jackson started his career as a marine biologist studying the distribution of bryozoans and their behavior. His work on the evolution and quantitative genetics of marine bryozoans provided some of the strongest evidence to date for the controversial "punctuated equilibrium" model of evolutionary change. In addition to the bryozoan work, Jackson produced influential studies on the Pleistocene record of coral reef communities and was a central figure in a Smithsonian Institution project investigating the evolution of ecosystems in Panama and the surrounding regions.
Jackson also studied the impact of Hurricane Allen on reefs in Jamaica. The resulting paper (Woodley et al., 1981, Science) confidently predicted recovery of the reef. A few years later, Jackson led a study concerning the impact of an oil spill on benthic life in the nearshore regions affected. Again, the situation did not exactly correspond to expectations: corals affected by the spill died, but so did others, outside the stressed region. These were two crucial experiences. The reason for lack of recovery inside impacted regions, and deterioration outside such regions, Jackson decided, was human activities.
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