Original article by Jennifer Hitt can be found here in CSU Source.

And the original ESA press release can be read here.

Interim director for the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and research scientist, Dennis Ojima, was elected as a 2025 fellow by the Ecological Society of America. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management, and policy. Ojima is one of eight confirmed fellows this year and is elected for life.

Ojima is an ecosystem scientist who conducts research and assessments on global change impacts on ecosystems in the U.S. and around the globe. A leader in the science of anthropogenic change, he promotes social-ecological approaches to address adaptation to environmental change in dryland systems. Ojima has received numerous recognitions, including the Champion of the Environment award from the Mongolian Minister of the Environment and Green Development, the Zayed International Prize for the Environment shared with his co-contributors to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize shared with his fellow members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2022, Ojima served as President of the Ecological Society of America. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University.