David Schindler
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Born | Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.[1] | August 3, 1940
Died | March 4, 2021 Brisco, British Columbia, Canada | (aged 80)
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Known for | Experimental Lakes Area |
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Thesis | Energy Relations at Three Trophic Levels in an Aquatic Food Chain (1966) |
David William Schindler,
Early life
Schindler was born August 3, 1940, in
He earned his bachelor's degree at NDSU and PhD at the University of Oxford.Education and early career
After completing his bachelor's degree in zoology from
Research
Experimental Lakes Area
For fifty years, from 1968 to 2018, "...the world's most influential 58 lakes (and their watersheds)— IISD Experimental Lakes Area— these ordinary yet highly impactful lakes in a remote corner of northwestern Ontario, Canada have been the only ones in the world dedicated to long-term whole ecosystem experimentation."
From 1968 to 1989, Schindler directed the newly created Experimental Lakes Area (ELA),[Notes 1] of the now-defunct Fisheries Research Board of Canada[13]: x near Kenora, Ontario. IISD-ELA uses the whole ecosystem approach and makes long-term, whole-lake investigations of freshwater focusing on eutrophication.[14]
Schindler was awarded the
Schindler's views on the oil sands tailings ponds
In a June 3, 2019, opinion piece in
Freshwater management policies
Schindler's large body of scientific work has influenced freshwater management policies including the regulation of toxins and the limitation of eutrophication and acid rain in Canada, the US, and Europe.[16]
Selected publications
In his 2008 book co-authored with John R. Vallentyne entitled The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries, Schindler warned about algal blooms and dead zones, "The fish-killing blooms that devastated the Great Lakes in the 1960s and 1970s haven't gone away; they've moved west into an arid world in which people, industry, and agriculture are increasingly taxing the quality of what little freshwater there is to be had here....This isn't just a prairie problem. Global expansion of dead zones caused by algal blooms is rising rapidly..."[17]
In 2010 he co-authored a report on contaminants in fresh water systems in the area affected by the oil sands development entitled "Oil sands development contributes elements toxic at low concentrations to the Athabasca River and its tributaries."[18]
In 2011 he was featured in the documentary film Peace Out.[19]
Selected awards and honours
Over his career Schindler received over a hundred awards and honours.[20]
In 1991 Schindler was awarded the prestigious
In 2006 Schindler received the Tyler Award for Environmental Achievement, joining "luminaries as primatologist
In 2008 he was honoured with the Alberta Order of Excellence as professor and mentor and "an internationally celebrated scientist who has led efforts to protect fresh water resources in Canada and around the world. His groundbreaking research has served as a clarion call alerting authorities and the public to the effects of pollutants and climate change on the environment. "[5][10]
In 2012, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography named the Yentsch-Schindler award after Clarice Yentsch and David Schindler. The award honors contributions of early career scientists.[21]
He was awarded the Rachel Carson Award for his "lifetime of work on whole-ecosystem research in the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) at the November 2016 world conference SETAC held in Orlando Florida.[22]
Selected list of other awards and honours
- Royal Canadian Institute's Sandford Fleming Medalfor Public Communication of Science (2009)
- Alberta Order of Excellence (2008) AB. Members Profile David W. Schindler. Alberta Order of Excellence.
- American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ruth Patrick Award (2006)
- Alberta Centennial Medal (2005)
- Officer of the Order of Canada (2004)
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (2004)
- Canada Council for the Arts(2003)
- Elected Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2003)
- Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, Office of the Governor General of Canada (2002)
- City of Edmonton, Award of Distinction (2002)
- Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences(USA) (2002)
- Environment Canada, EcoLogo/Natural Marine Environmental Award (2002)
- Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) (2001)
- Award of Excellence, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) (2001)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2001)[23]
- NSERCAward of Excellence (2000)
- First Romanowski Medal, Royal Society of Canada (1994)
- Manning Award of Distinction for Innovation in Science (1993)
- First Stockholm Water Prize,[24] Stockholm Water Foundation (1991)
- American Society of Limnology and Oceanography(1985)
- Naumann-Thienemann Medal of the International Limnological Society (1988)
- Frank Rigler Award of the Canadian Limnological Society (1984)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1983)
- Rhodes Scholarship, 1962–1966
Notes
- ^ The ELA is now known as the IISD-ELA as it is now managed and operated by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
References
- ^ a b Schwartz, Daniel (October 18, 2010). "David Schindler: Five decades of doing science, advocating environmental policy". CBC News. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
- ^ Omstead, Jordan (March 5, 2021). "'Canada's leading ecologist': David Schindler dead at 80". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
- PMID 16670196.
- ^ AB. Members Profile David W. Schindler. Alberta Order of Excellence
- ^ a b c Speakers/Panelists: Professor David Schindler. IAP Conference and General Assembly. IAP – The Global Network of Science Academies. 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f Cairney, Richard (April 28, 2006). "Schindler earns Tyler Award: Renowned ecologist credits inspirational mentors". Folio. University of Alberta.
- ^ "Tipping Point, The Age of the Oil Sands". The Nature of Things. CBC.
- ^ a b "David W. Schindler". Stockholm International Water Institute.
- ^ ISBN 978-91-974183-9-3. Archived from the original(PDF) on March 9, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Dr. David W. Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS. Alberta Order of Excellence homepage". Government of Alberta. 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- ^ Hui, Cang (January 1, 2008). "Fifty years of invasion ecology – the legacy of Charles Elton". Diversity and Distributions.
- ^ Brown, Michael. "Celebrating the life of David Schindler". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- doi:10.1139/f09-134.
- ^ From Canada's Lakes to the World (PDF). International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (Report). IISD-ELA Annual Report 2017-2018. Winnipeg, Manitoba. p. 36.
- ^ Schindler, David; Barlow, Maude (June 4, 2019). "Toxic tailings do not belong in the Athabasca River". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
Ottawa and Alberta are working on new regulations that would authorize discharge of treated effluent
- PMID 27494041.
- ISBN 978-0888644848.
- PMID 20805486.
- ^ "Peace Out Film | Wilderness Committee". www.wildernesscommittee.org. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
- ^ Enright, Michael (May 24, 2013). Ecologist David Schindler Retires (Interview). CBC Radio. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
- ^ "Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award". ASLO. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
- ^ "Mercury research, sunshine and politics at SETAC in Florida". K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre. Archived from the original on June 21, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
- ^ "David Schindler". Royal Society. Archived from the original on November 23, 2015.
- ^ Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Profile David W. Schindler Archived September 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.