Dr. Kiørboe, the thirty-first recipient of the A.G Huntsman Award, is recognized world-wide for his original and provocative thinking that has led to pioneering contributions in many areas of marine ecology. He developed innovative approaches for field, laboratory and modeling studies of how micro-scale physical processes interact with the responses of individual marine organisms to generate observed patterns in populations and food webs. He is a major intellectual force in the difficult but essential business of linking processes from the small to large scales. His work in other areas, such as larval fish metabolism and the impact of food quality on consumers, has had major and lasting impacts, in some cases helping to spur the development of new research areas such as ecological stoichiometry. Overall, Thomas Kiørboe has played a major role in changing the way scientists view the field of plankton ecology.

The award will be presented by the Royal Society of Canada at a special ceremony at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on Wednesday 21 November 2007. Dr. Kiørboe will also deliver a public lecture on “Sex and death in the ocean” that links evolutionary theory with the population dynamics of marine animals. This will take place on Thursday 22 November 2007 starting at 19:30, in the Family Potter room on the campus of Dalhousie University. All are welcome to attend both events.