Ian L. Boyd

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ian L. Boyd
Date Of Birth	Feb 9, 1957(1957-02-09)
Age	67
Birthplace	Kilmarnock
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ian L. Boyd Biography

Ian L. Boyd is one of the most popular and richest Zoologist who was born on February 9, 1957 in Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sir Ian Lamont Boyd, FRSE FRSB (born, Kilmarnock, 9 February 1957) is a Scottish Zoologist, environmental and polar scientist. He was the former Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and an associate professor in the University of St Andrews. He is the Chair of the UK Research Integrity Office.

His most notable discovery is the functional connection between the activity of predators in the marine environment and condition of their food supply first presented in a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology in 2001. This suggests that there is likely to be an abundance of marine resources that could be utilized by fisheries prior to larger consequences for marine ecosystems. While Boyd discovered this within the ecosystems based on krill that comprise the Southern Ocean, together with colleagues, he demonstrated that this connection was common across all marine ecosystems. They published an article within the Journal of Science in which they argued that fisheries must leave at least one third of the marine biomass to other predators such as seabirds.

In 2007 and 2008, he was Chief Scientist for the US Navy Behavioral Response Study which examined the responses of whales to naval anti-submarine sonar. This contributed to the case of Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council in the US Supreme Court.

Since 2011 most government departments have had their own Chief Scientific Adviser but Defra has had a Chief Scientific Adviser since its creation in

2001. Predecessors had been Sir Howard Dalton (2002-2007) and Sir Robert Watson (2007-2012). Defra was originally formed from the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and part of the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions both of which had Chief Scientific Advisers up until the merger.

Boyd has been awarded numerous honors and awards for his contribution to science, such as his Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the W. S. Bruce Medal for his work within Polar Science and has been appointed an Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and is an Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). He has been awarded as an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham and was presented with the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States in 1995. The same year, he was given an DSc degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1995 for his work on the mammalian physiological ecology. He headed his team of scientists from the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews to receiving the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011. Then, in 2017, he was presented with the Polar Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter for his contributions to science and policy.

Ian L. Boyd Net Worth

Ian L. Boyd is one of the richest Zoologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian L. Boyd 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He is the father of Scottish conservationist and zoologist John Morton Boyd. He was a student at in the private George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh. He attended Aberdeen University in 1975. University of Aberdeen from 1975 when he received a 1st Class Certificate in Zoology at the age of 1979. He then went to St John’s College, Cambridge until 1982. He was awarded the PhD diploma at Cambridge University at the end of 1983. He was an Churchill Fellow in the year 1980. Pilots were a part of his time with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve between 1975 and 1978.

He got married in 1982. He has a son and two daughters. The family lives within London, St Andrews and on the island of Tiree in the Hebrides.

He was responsible for establishing the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews and the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), one of Scotland’s cross-institutional research pools including eight of Scotland’s universities. He established several operating companies for the University of St Andrews and these now operate globally with subsidiaries in the United States, Canada and Hong Kong. As Director of the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit he was responsible for providing scientific advice to Defra and the Scottish Government about policies related to marine mammals. He has been a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Zoology from 2006-2008. He is a member of the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

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In 2015, he wrote an oped in the New York Times titled “Our deadened, carbon soaked seas” with Rick Spinrad who was then the Chief Scientist at NOAA to draw attention to the dangers of ocean acidification. Also in 2015, he wrote an article on environmental forensics where he said “We breathe, eat and drink other people’s pollution. The ‘tragedy of the commons’ has a powerful presence across the environment. It has proved difficult to design market solutions to deal with these issues of equity.”

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Ian Ranked on the list of most popular Zoologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ian L. Boyd celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.

In a 2017 article in the journal Science, “Toward pesticidovigilance”, he called for a new approach to the regulation of pesticides and he made further reference to pesticides in an explanation for the decision made by the UK government in April 2018 to support further restriction by the EU on neonicotinoid pesticides. He also published a recent article in Nature, “Taking the long view”, which advocated taking a systems approach to understanding the problems which governments have to manage.