Ebbe Nielsen Prize
{{short description|Danish award for field of biodiversity informatics.}}
The Ebbe Nielsen Prize was an international science award made annually between 2002 and 2014 by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), to recognize a researcher who had made substantial contributions to the field of biodiversity informatics. The prize was established in memory of prominent entomologist and biodiversity informatics proponent Ebbe Nielsen, who died of a heart attack in the U.S.A. en route to the 2001 GBIF Governing Board meeting.
History
The award was created in 2001 to honour the recently deceased Danish-Australian entomologist Ebbe Nielsen, who was a keen proponent of both GBIF and the biodiversity informatics discipline.{{cite journal |last1=Kristensen |first1=Niels P. |year=2001 |title=Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen 7 June 1950 - 6 March 2001 |journal=Nota Lepidopterologica |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=3–9 }} At the time of its creation, the prize was the only global award for work in biodiversity.{{cite web|url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/uo17ejk9rkwj/1y1KMaWd6QquQgKsu6I4s2/1ff0251d02cf729e40e24ba80f3f0350/GBIF_20Annual_20Report_202001_20-_202002.pdf|title=Global Biodiversity Information Facility Annual Report 2001-2002}} Initially set at US$35,000{{cite journal |year=2003 |title=Ebbe Nielsen Prize |journal=Biologue |issue=28 |url=http://155.187.2.69/biodiversity/abrs/biologue/archive/issue-28/}} and later €30,000, the award comprised a cash prize plus an invitation to give a guest lecture to address the annual meeting of the governing body of GBIF in whichever country the meeting was being held for that year. In its 2003 call for submissions, the prize was stated as being "[awarded] annually, to a promising researcher, normally within ten years of their entering the research field of biodiversity informatics. Candidates should be combining biodiversity informatics and biosystematic research in novel and exciting ways ... The primary selection criterion is scientific excellence as evidenced by the nominee’s research and publication record, and in particular, the innovation shown in combining biosystematics and biodiversity informatics research in their field of activity." Over the life of the prize, it was won by researchers from Japan, Germany, Sweden, Argentina, United States (twice), Australia (twice), United Kingdom, Colombia, Canada, Denmark and Portugal.{{cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/awards|title=Awards|website=www.gbif.org}}
In 2015, GBIF revamped the award as an incentive competition, now known as the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge.{{cite web|url=https://gbif.devpost.com/|title=GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge|website=GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge}}
List of recipients from 2002–2014
The following list of recipients is given on the GBIF web site:
- 2002: Nozomi Ytow (Japan){{cite web|url=http://oneocean.org/overseas/200203/coastal_alert.html#35|title=OVER SEAS -- February 2002: Coastal Alert|website=oneocean.org}}
- 2003: Stefan Schröder (Germany)[https://www.uni-bonn.de/die-universitaet/informationsquellen/presseinformationen/2003/169 uni-bonn.de: Bonner Bienenforscher gewinnt Ebbe Nielsen Preis] (in German)
- 2004: Johan Nilsson (Sweden){{cite web|url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/uo17ejk9rkwj/3R2IOjnek8AGAeqW86wsqa/d69a708b8037e6e5cb59a9b267f3d3e8/GBIF_20Annual_20Report_202004.pdf|title=Global Biodiversity Information Facility Annual Report 2004}}
- 2005: Pablo Goloboff (Argentina){{cite web|url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/uo17ejk9rkwj/4FyLTd3CByki48YIcOammu/1cb0f120b34a030698fac62719a37cef/GBIF_20Annual_20Report_202005.pdf|title=Global Biodiversity Information Facility Annual Report 2005}}
- 2006: John Wieczorek (United States){{cite web|url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2006/04/19_awards.shtml|title=04.19.2006 - Awards|website=www.berkeley.edu}}
- 2007: Paul Flemons (Australia){{cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/gbif-awp060807.php|title=Australian wins prestigious prize in biodiversity informatics|website=EurekAlert!}}
- 2008: Vince Stuart Smith (United Kingdom){{cite web|url=https://www.slideshare.net/vsmithuk/small-pieces-loosely-joined-a-unified-theory-of-biodiversity-for-the-web-presentation|title=Small pieces loosely joined: a unified theory of biodiversity for the…|last=Vince Smith|date=27 November 2008}}
- 2009: Andy Jarvis (Colombia){{cite web|url=https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/53050/andy_international_award.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y|title=CIAT, May 2009: CIAT researcher wins international award}}
- 2010: Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Canada){{cite web|url=http://ibol.org/bold-leader-wins-ebbe-nielsen-prize/|title=BOLD leader wins Ebbe Nielsen Prize - iBOL|website=ibol.org}}
- 2011: Jens-Christian Svenning (Denmark){{cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/news/82293/2011-ebbe-nielsen-prize-winner-announced|title=2011 Ebbe Nielsen Prize winner announced|website=www.gbif.org}}
- 2012: Nathan Swenson (United States){{cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/news/82310/plant-data-helps-climate-models-gbif-award-winner|title=Plant data helps climate models - GBIF award winner|website=www.gbif.org}}
- 2013: Miguel Bastos Araújo (Portugal){{cite web|url=http://www.maraujolab.com/miguel-araujo-receives-the-gibif-2013-ebbe-nielsen-prize/|title=Miguel Araújo receives the GIBIF 2013 Ebbe Nielsen Prize|website=www.maraujolab.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/news/82319/think-bigger-gbif-award-winner-urges-biologists|title=Think bigger, GBIF award winner urges biologists|website=www.gbif.org}}{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/78160183|title=2013 Ebbe Nielsen Prize Winner presentation during the GBIF Science Symposium|last=GBIF|date=30 October 2013|via=Vimeo}}
- 2014: Tony Rees (Australia) {{cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/news.php?p=show&id=3863|title=GBIF has awarded its 2014 Ebbe Nielsen Prize to Tony Rees|website=www.marinespecies.org}}{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/107257530|title=Tony Rees – 2014 Ebbe Nielsen Prize Presentation|last=GBIF|date=26 September 2014|via=Vimeo}}