Environment - Tyler Prize 2019 ($ 200,000)

The University of Southern California invites nominations for the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The call for nominations will be open from May 14 until July 27, 2018. The prize is awarded for environmental science, environmental health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind. Tyler Laureates receive a $ 200,000 annual prize and are presented a commemorative medallion at ceremonies in Los Angeles.

Prizes are awarded for any one of the following:

• The protection, maintenance, improvement or understanding of an ecological or an environmental condition anywhere in the world; 
• The discovery, further development, improvement, or understanding of known or new sources of energy; 
• Medical discoveries or achievements with such worldwide implications that they significantly benefit environmental aspects of human health.

Living individuals or public or private institutions of any nation, are eligible for nomination.