# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Environmental sciences and ecology)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.
| Name | Institution | Year |
| Zhisheng An | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2016 |
| Mary Arroyo | University of Chile | 1999 |
| Jayne Belnap | United States Geological Survey | 2021 |
| Elena Bennett | McGill University | 2022 |
| Emily Bernhardt | Duke University | 2023 |
| Joseph A. Berry | Carnegie Institution for Science | 2015 |
| William J. Bond | University of Cape Town | 2013 |
| Frederick Bormann (d. 2012) | Yale University | 1973 |
| James H. Brown | University of New Mexico | 2005 |
| John Cairns Jr. | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 1991 |
| Stephen R. Carpenter | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2001 |
| Juan Carlos Castilla | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 2003 |
| Gerardo Ceballos Gonzalez | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | 2018 |
| William Chameides | Environmental Defense | 1998 |
| F. Stuart Chapin III | University of Alaska Fairbanks | 2004 |
| Sallie W. Chisholm | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2003 |
| James S. Clark | Duke University | 2020 |
| Jonathan J. Cole (d. 2023) | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 2014 |
| Phyllis Coley | University of Utah | 2023 |
| Rita R. Colwell | University of Maryland, College Park | 2000 |
| Richard M. Cowling | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University | 2008 |
| Paul J. Crutzen | Max Planck Institute for Chemistry | 1994 |
| Gretchen Daily | Stanford University | 2005 |
| Margaret Davis (d. 2024) | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | 1982 |
| Edward F. DeLong | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | 2008 |
| Jared Diamond | University of California, Los Angeles | 1979 |
| Sandra M. Diaz | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | 2009 |
| Robert Dickinson | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1988 |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 2004 |
| Ellen R. Druffel | University of California, Irvine | 2020 |
| Walles T. Edmondson (d. 2000) | University of Washington | 1973 |
| James Ehleringer | University of Utah | 2016 |
| Paul R. Ehrlich | Stanford University | 1985 |
| Michael Elliott (d. 2007) | IACR-Rothamsted | 1996 |
| James J. Elser | University of Montana | 2019 |
| James A. Estes | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2014 |
| Paul G. Falkowski | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 2007 |
| Graham D. Farquhar | Australian National University | 2013 |
| Tom Fenchel | University of Copenhagen | 2011 |
| Christopher Field | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 2001 |
| Mary K. Firestone | University of California, Berkeley | 2017 |
| Carl Folke | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | 2017 |
| Edward Frieman (d. 2013) | University of California, San Diego | 1981 |
| James N. Galloway | University of Virginia | 2020 |
| Wilford Gardner (d. 2011) | University of California, Berkeley | 1983 |
| Edward D. Goldberg (d. 2008) | University of California, San Diego | 1980 |
| Eville Gorham (d. 2020) | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | 1994 |
| Susan Harrison | University of California, Davis | 2018 |
| Alan Hastings | University of California, Davis | 2015 |
| Mark Hay | Georgia Tech | 2022 |
| Tyrone Hayes | University of California, Berkeley | 2023 |
| Sarah Hobbie | University of Minnesota | 2013 |
| Robert D. Holt | University of Florida | 2022 |
| Jeremy B. C. Jackson | American Museum of Natural History | 2019 |
| Daniel Janzen | University of Pennsylvania | 1992 |
| Bo Barker Jorgensen | Aarhus University | 2020 |
| William Jury | University of California, Riverside | 2000 |
| Peter M. Kareiva | University of California, Los Angeles | 2011 |
| David Karl | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | 2006 |
| Donald Kennedy (d. 2020) | Stanford University | 1972 |
| Nancy Knowlton | Smithsonian Institution | 2013 |
| Mimi Koehl | University of California, Berkeley | 2001 |
| John Krebs | University of Oxford | 2004 |
| John E. Kutzbach (d. 2021) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2021 |
| Sandra Lavorel | French National Centre for Scientific Research | 2020 |
| John Lawton | No affiliation | 2008 |
| Estella Leopold (d. 2024) | University of Washington | 1974 |
| Lisa Levin | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 2024 |
| Simon Levin | Princeton University | 2000 |
| Gene Likens | Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 1981 |
| Thomas Lovejoy (d. 2021) | George Mason University | 2021 |
| Jane Lubchenco | Oregon State University | 1996 |
| Pablo A. Marquet | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 2018 |
| Pamela Matson | Stanford University | 1994 |
| Robert May (d. 2020) | University of Oxford | 1992 |
| Ernesto Medina | Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research | 1992 |
| Mario J. Molina (d. 2020) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1993 |
| Harold Mooney | Stanford University | 1982 |
| Mary Ann Moran | University of Georgia | 2021 |
| Francois M.M. Morel | Princeton University | 2009 |
| William W. Murdoch | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2008 |
| Norman Myers (d. 2019) | University of Oxford | 1994 |
| Dianne K. Newman | California Institute of Technology | 2019 |
| Carlos A. Nobre | University of São Paulo | 2015 |
| Eugene Odum (d. 2002) | University of Georgia | 1970 |
| Richard S. Ostfeld | Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 2024 |
| Jonathan Overpeck | University of Michigan | 2024 |
| Stephen W. Pacala | Princeton University | 2007 |
| Robert T. Paine (d. 2016) | University of Washington | 1986 |
| Stephen R. Palumbi | Stanford University | 2016 |
| Ruth Patrick (d. 2013) | Academy of Natural Sciences | 1970 |
| Ivette Perfecto | University of Michigan | 2022 |
| Hugh Possingham | The Nature Conservancy | 2016 |
| Mary Eleanor Power | University of California, Berkeley | 2012 |
| Nancy Rabalais | Louisiana State University | 2021 |
| James T. Randerson | University of California, Irvine | 2017 |
| Peter Raven | Missouri Botanical Garden | 1977 |
| Peter B. Reich | University of Michigan | 2018 |
| Robert E. Ricklefs | University of Missouri–St. Louis | 2008 |
| Andrea Rinaldo | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | 2012 |
| Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (d. 2022) | Texas A&M University-College Station | 2010 |
| Benjamin Santer | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 2011 |
| Marten Scheffer | Wageningen University and Research Centre | 2019 |
| David Schindler (d. 2021) | University of Alberta | 2002 |
| William Schlesinger | Duke University | 2003 |
| Knut Schmidt-Nielsen | Duke University | 1963 |
| Stephen Schneider (d. 2010) | Stanford University | 2002 |
| Thomas Schoener | University of California, Davis | 1984 |
| Daniel Simberloff | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville | 2012 |
| Ralph Slatyer | Australian National University | 1976 |
| George N. Somero | Stanford University | 1988 |
| Richard Southwood | University of Oxford | 1988 |
| John Terborgh | Duke University | 1989 |
| James Tiedje | Michigan State University | 2003 |
| G. David Tilman | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | 2002 |
| Susan E. Trumbore | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | 2010 |
| Monica Turner | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2004 |
| Peter Vitousek | Stanford University | 1992 |
| Diane Wall (d. 2024) | Colorado State University | 2018 |
| Cathy L. Whitlock | Montana State University | 2018 |
| Edward Wilson | Harvard University | 1969 |
| Carl Woese (d. 2012) | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1988 |
| George Woodwell (d. 2024) | Woods Hole Research Center | 1990 |
| Herbert E. Wright (d. 2015) | University of Minnesota | 1977 |