AAAS - Exequiel Ezcurra has been named the recipient of the 2020 Award for Science Diplomacy by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his leadership in bringing together research, education, outreach and policy in service of environmental protection, particularly at the United States-Mexico border.
A professor of ecology in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, Ezcurra undertakes cross-disciplinary research that touches upon conservation science, ecology, biogeography, land-ocean interactions and the application of mathematical modeling in these fields.
Throughout his career, Ezcurra “has gone the extra mile” to ensure that his research informs scientifically sound policy, said Paul Dayton, emeritus professor of marine ecology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in a nomination letter.