Person Mace; Georgina Mary (1953 - 2020); ecologist Mace Georgina Mary ecologist 1953 - 2020 British Female London, England, United Kingdom 21/07/1953 19530721 19/09/2020 20200919

Ecologist Ecology Biodiversity Conservation Ecosystems Extinction Education: City of London School for Girls; University of Liverpool, BSc (1976); University of Sussex, PhD (1979) Career: Director of Science, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London (2002-2006); Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London (2006-2012); Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystem, University College London (2012-2020); Honours: OBE 1998; CBE 2007; DBE 2016 Medals/Awards: International Cosmos Prize (2007); Ernst Haeckel Prize of the European Ecological Federation (2011); Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences (2016) Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society, jointly with Sandra Knapp (2016); President's Medal of the British Ecological Society (2018); BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, ecology and conservation biology category, jointly with Gretchen Daily (2018) Georgina Mace’s research projects covered a range of topics that related to the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change. She developed the criteria for measuring species extinction risk that are now used by the IUCN for their regular Red Lists of Threatened Species. Georgina also identified the factors that cause different species to be more or less vulnerable to extinction. She developed approaches to understanding climate change impacts and how this varies between species and in different ecosystems. A second area of research concerns ecosystem services and natural capital accounting, which she became interested in through her work on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the United Kingdom’s National Ecosystem Assessment. Georgina has been especially concerned with evaluating the links between biodiversity and ecosystem services, incorporating ecosystem services into biodiversity targets and examining trade-offs amongst ecosystem services. Most recently, she developed a new approach to measuring the loss of natural capital, using a risk register. For her services to environmental science, Georgina was awarded an OBE in 1998, a CBE in 2007 and made a DBE in 2016. Dame Georgina Mace died on 19 September 2020. Royal Society roles: Council: 2005-2006, 2013-2016 Committees/Panels: Sectional Committe 9 Organismal biology, evolution and eecology, 2002-2005 International Policy Commitee, 2003-2008 Hooke Committee, 2003-2005, 2013-2015 Royal Society Research Grants Scheme - Board H, 2003-2005 Editorial Board of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2008 -2010 (Editor-in-Chief and Chair, first woman to hold the position), 2012-2014 Biological Sciences Awards Committee, 2009-2011 Research Appointment Panel B (II), 2009-2011, 2013-2015 Sectional Committee 5: Earth and environmental sciences, 2012-2013 Resilience to Extreme Weather Working Group, 2013-2014 Global Environmental Research Committee, 2013-2015 Science Policy Expert Advisory Committee, 2015-2018 Grants Committee, 2015-2018 Climate Change Working Party, 2015-2020 Audit Committee, 2017-2019 Living Landscapes Steering Group, 2019 Evaluation Panel, 2019-2020 Nominations Committee, 2020 Net Zero Panel Group, 2020 Medals/Prizes: Rutherford Memorial Lecture 2017 Fellow 13/05/2002 48 Sources https://royalsociety.org/people/georgina-mace-11863/; Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina_Mace (accessed 23 September 2020) References: See Royal Society 'Mothers in Science - 64 ways to have it all' , p 39 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-5211 21 July 1953 - 19 Sep 2020 NA8475 13/05/2002 Clara 31/01/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes b02655f0-d34e-4ee8-9642-fe8e1bb6d819