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New Officers for 2010-2012
Peter Groffman (Chairperson) and Daniela Cusack (Secretary) are the section's officers for 2010-2012.
The section will continue to sponsor awards and to organize the student/faculty dinners during the Annual Meeting. Announcements about these opportunities will be made around May.
As a reminder, the awards are:
1. Junior Scientist Outstanding Publication Award ($250) is presented to the first author of a notable paper in the biogeosciences that was published between January of the previous year and May of the current year. To be considered for this award, the paper must have been assigned a DOI.
2. Elizabeth Sulzman award ($250) recognizes research down by a graduate student and published within two years of graduation.
3. Gene E. Likens award ($250) recognizes work conducted by an early career scientist published within five years of receiving a Ph.D for work conducting after the completion of graduate school.
4. New Phytologist award ($500) for best student presentation at the annual meeting.
The New Phytologist Award for best talk on work conducted while a graduate student ($500 prize)
Amy Burgin (recipient): "Microbial linkages in the N & S cycles: experimental evidence from lakes and wetlands."
Carmody (Carrie) McCalley (honorable mention): "Abiotic processes drive gaseous nitrogen loss from Mojave Desert soils."
Elizabeth Sulzman Award:
Michael Strickland (recipient): "Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition." Ecology 90(2), 2009, pp. 441–451
Jia Hu (honorable mention): "Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest." Global Change Biology (2009)
Gene Likens Award
Stephen Porder (winner) "Climate and soil-age constraints on nutrient uplift and retention by plants" by Stephen Porder. Ecology 90(3), 2009, pp. 623–636
William Cornwell (honorable mention) "Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide." Ecology Letters (2008) 11: 1065–1071
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