IMPORTANT DATES IN THE LIFE OF DANIEL PAULY
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MAY 2, 1946 |
Daniel is born in Paris, the son of Renée Clément and Winston McLemore |
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SUMMER 1948 |
Daniel is entrusted to a Swiss family from La Chaux-de-Fonds |
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JULY 1963 |
Expelled from high school, Daniel leaves La Chaux-de-Fonds for Germany |
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AUTUMN 1964 |
Daniel finds a job in a Wuppertal factory and returns to his studies |
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JANUARY 1967 |
Called up for military service, Daniel returns to France and reunites with Renée |
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SPRING 1969 |
Abitur (German baccalaureate) in Wuppertal |
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SUMMER 1969 |
First visit to the United States, where Daniel meets Winston McLemore |
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SEPTEMBER 1969 |
Daniel starts college in Kiel |
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1971 |
First research expedition in Africa (Ghana) |
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1974 |
Master’s degree at IfM in Kiel |
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JUNE 1975 |
Daniel leaves for Indonesia |
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MAY 1977 |
Ilya Pauly is born |
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DECEMBER 1978 |
Marriage to Sandra Wade |
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MAY 1979 |
Doctorate at IfM in Kiel |
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JULY 1979 |
Daniel takes a job at ICLARM; the Pauly family moves to Manila |
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MARCH 1981 |
Angela Pauly is born |
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1994 |
Daniel becomes a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver |
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1995 |
First publication in Nature , "Primary Production Required to Sustain Global Fisheries" |
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1998 |
First publication in Science, “Fishing Down Marine Food Webs” |
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1999 |
Launch of the Sea Around Us project |
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2003 |
Daniel is named one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world by Scientific American |
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FEBRUARY 2005 |
Daniel has a stroke |
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JUNE 2005 |
International Cosmos Prize (Japan) |
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2011 |
Grand prix of the Société française d’écologie (French Ecological Society) |
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2016 |
Prince Albert I medal (Monaco) |
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2017 |
Scientist of the Year 2016 (Canada) |
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2017 |
Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur (France) |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
BASIC: Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a computer programming language
BLOOM: A nonprofit foundation for marine conservation
BP: Before Present
CGIAR: Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CNRS: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
CRODT: Centre de recherches océanographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye (Oceanographic Research Center of Dakar-Thiaroye)
CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DDE: Direction départementale de l’équipement (the authority formerly responsible for transportation and infrastructure in France, it was replaced in 2006 by the Directions départementales des territoires)
DDT: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
DKP: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (German Communist Party)
ECOPATH: A free suite of computer programs for modeling ecosystems, initially created by Jeffrey Polovina of NOAA, but later developed by the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (now the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries)
ECOSIM: Individual-based Ecosystem Simulation Module
ELEFAN: Electronic Length Frequency Analysis
ENSO: El Niño Southern Oscillation
EWE: Ecopath with Ecosim
FAO: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
FISHBASE: Digital encyclopedia of fish species
FSC: Forest Stewardship Council (environmental certification designed to promote the sustainable management of forests worldwide)
GEOMAR: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (new name of the IfM)
GTZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for Technical Development and Cooperation)
ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
ICLARM: International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management
IfM: Institut für Meereskunde (Oceanographic Institute) in Kiel, Germany (in 2004, the IfM was renamed GEOMAR)
IFREMER: Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea)
IMARPE: Instituto del Mar del Perú (Marine Institute of Peru)
INRA: Institut national de la recherche agronomique (National Institute for Agricultural Research in France)
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRD: Institut de recherche pour le développement (Research Institute for Development in France); in 1998, the IRD replaced ORSTOM
MAVA: A nature foundation founded by French ornithologist Luc Hoffmann that is very active in Africa
MSC: Marine Stewardship Council (environmental certification designed to promote the sustainable management of marine resources)
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (United States)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States)
NPA: New People’s Army (a branch of the Philippine communist party)
OAK FOUNDATION: A consortium of philanthropic organizations headquartered in Geneva
ORSTOM: Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer (Overseas Scientific Research and Development Office), a French organization replaced in 1998 by the IRD
PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS: American nonprofit organization that works to improve public policy, keep the public informed, and invigorate civic life
PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (United States)
RAF: Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction); a German communist organization also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang
RAMSAR CONVENTION: Established by UNESCO in 1971, the convention’s goal is to protect wetlands around the world
SEALIFEBASE: Digital encyclopedia of marine life
SEA SHEPHERD: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; a nongovernmental organization that works to protect marine ecosystems
SIAP: Système d’information et d’analyse des pêches (System for Information and Analysis of Fisheries)
UBC: University of British Columbia
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature