| Authorised form of name | Mace; Georgina Mary (1953 - 2020); ecologist |
| Dates | 1953 - 2020 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 21/07/1953 |
| Date of death | 19/09/2020 |
| Occupation | Ecologist |
| Research field | Ecology |
| Biodiversity |
| Conservation |
| Ecosystems |
| Extinction |
| Activity | 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) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/05/2002 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| RSActivity | 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 |
| PublishedWorks | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-5211 |
| OtherInfo | 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. |
| Source | 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 |
| Code | NA8475 |