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Presentation of the 2009 Paleontological Society Medal to Jeremy B. C. Jackson

It is with great joy and admiration that I introduce this year's Paleontological Society Medal winner, Jeremy B.C. Jackson. Jeremy's scientific accomplishments are so numerous and influential, it is difficult to know where to begin. Jeremy acquired his Ph.D. from Yale University under the guidance of Donald Rhoads and G. Evelyn Hutchinson. He has been associated with some of the world's finest academic institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, Johns Hopkins University, the American Museum of Natural History, and more recently the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Jeremy is the author of more than 140 scientific publications (including more than 20 in Science ) and seven books. He has won numerous awards and accolades. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It boggles the mind that a scientist of this caliber has not been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences—though it surely must be coming. He was awarded the Secretary's Gold Medal for Exceptional Service at the Smithsonian Institution and he received the UCSD Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering. In 2007, he won the Edward T. LaRoe Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Conservation Biology of the Society for Conservation Biology and the International Award for Research in Ecology and Conservation Biology of the BBVA Foundation, Madrid. He recently won the 2008 Roger Tory Peterson Medal from Harvard University and, here's my favorite, the 2009 Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Award (Blue Vision Summit).

Jeremy's work on overfishing was chosen by Discover magazine as the outstanding discovery of 2001. His “Evolution and extinction in the brave new ocean” paper in PNAS is, according to the editors, one of the top 30 papers opened on the PNAS website. Jeremy's recent efforts as an …