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NEWS Congratulations to the 2012 ESA Biogeosciences Section Awards recipients 1. The Elizabeth Sulzman Award for work done as a graduate student will go to Scott Morford for: Morford, S., Houlton, B. Z. and Dahlgren, R. A. 2011. Increased forest nitrogen and carbon storage from nitrogen-rich bedrock. Nature 477, 78-81 Honorable mention for the Elizabeth Sulzman Award will go to Arianne Cease for: Cease, A.J., J.J. Elser, C.F. Ford, S. Hao, L. Kang, and J.F. Harrison. 2012. Livestock overgrazing promotes locust outbreaks by lowering plant nitrogen content. Science. 335: 467-469.
2. The Gene E. Likens Award for work done within 5 years of receiving the PhD. will go to Gordon Holtgrieve for: Gordon W. Holtgrieve, Daniel E. Schindler, William O. Hobbs, Peter R. Leavitt, Eric J. Ward, Lynda Bunting, Guangjie Chen, Bruce P. Finney, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Sofia Holmgren, Mark J. Lisac, Peter J. Lisi, Koren Nydick, Lauren A. Rogers, Jasmine E. Saros, Daniel T. Selbie, Mark D. Shapley, Patrick B. Walsh, Alexander P. Wolfe. 2011. A coherent signature of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition to remote watersheds of the northern hemisphere. Science 334:1545-1548
3. The Best Student Presentation, supported by the New Phytologist, will go to Bonnie Waring for "Microbial responses to an imposed gradient of water availability in wet tropical forest soils" Thank you to all of our judges! ESA Biogeosciences section Officers, 2012-2014
President: Whendee L. Silver, professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Secretary: Kate Buckeridge, postdoc at UC Santa Barbara in the Earth Research Institute. The Jobs page is regularly updated with currently available graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty positions. The Meetings page is available to announce meetings in the Biogeosciences. 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. Become a new member or renew your
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