Awards
Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology – Due June 3, 2024
The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce the 2024 Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology, sponsored by the journal AoB PLANTS. This honor is presented at ESA’s annual meeting each August and recognizes a distinguished journal contribution to plant population ecology within the past three years by a postdoctoral member of the PPE section. The winner will receive an award of $500 from AoB PLANTS.
Established in 2010 and published by Oxford University Press, AoB PLANTS is a non-profit, open-access journal specializing in environmental and evolutionary plant biology. The journal has distinguished Advisory and Editorial Boards, renders first decisions on manuscripts in an average of 30-40 days, and has a 2019 Impact Factor score of 2.18.
Eligibility
Applicants must currently be a postdoc and a member of the PPE section (if applicants are not a member of ESA or the PPE section, they can join prior to applying). Applicants must be first author on the publication, which may result from either dissertation or postdoctoral research. We also welcome applications from postdocs who were the primary mentors for undergraduate student first authors (please explain in the statement). Publications in any journal are eligible, provided they were published between January 2023 and June 2024. Manuscripts that were accepted for publication by June 2024 may also be submitted for consideration. Only one publication will be considered per applicant. Prior winners of the award are not eligible.
Application
– To apply, submit as a single, merged pdf file with both a qualifying manuscript and a brief (~200 word) statement describing how the paper advances the field of plant population ecology. Applications should be emailed to the PPE Secretary Gordon Fitch (gmfitch@nullyorku.ca) by June 3, 2024 using “ESA PPE – AoBP Postdoc Award” as the subject line. Self nominations are welcome!
Applications will be assessed by the PPE Executive Board.
Past Postdoctoral Excellence Award recipients
2023 Gregor Siegmund
2022 Eric Scott, for the paper “Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments“
2021 Aubrie James, for the paper “Species-specific variation in germination rates contributes to spatial coexistence more than adult plant water use in four closely related annual flowering plants”
2020 Po-Ju Ke
2019 Susana Wadgymar
2018 Robert Shriver
2017 William Petry
2016 Jenni McDonald
2015 Eugenio Larios
2014 Jennifer Gremer
2013 Rupesh Kariyat; Roberto Salguero-Gomez (Honorable Mention)
2012 Jennifer Williams
Plant Population Ecology Student Travel/Registration Awards – due May 31, 2024
The ESA Plant Population Ecology section plans to award 3-5 travel awards of $200-$300 each to graduate student members of the section to attend the 2024 annual meeting in person. Applications are due May 31, 2024 before midnight (PDT).
Instructions:
To apply, please complete and submit this form: https://forms.gle/oxk1jpoSGmASZvwG8
Selection process:
Applications will be evaluated based on relevance of research interests and goals, need, and the potential for attendance to advance research and professional goals. These criteria will be used to sort applications into priority funding groups (high/medium/low) and then names will be randomly selected from within funding groups to select awardees.
Past Student Travel Award recipients
2023 | Tianna Barber-Cross, Cole Doolittle, Julia Kachanova, Nadejda Sero, Taylor Zallek |
2022 | Lina Aragón, Joshua Fowler, Emily Holden, Jacob Moutouama, Jack Sytsma, Takuji Usui |
2021 | Lina Aragón, Danielle De La Pascua, Alejandra Martínez-Blancas, Jacob Moutouama, Zhe Ren, and Verónica Zepeda |
2020 | Sade Perez Partridge, Alejandra Martínez-Blancas, Verónica Zepeda |
2019 | Meredith Zettlemoyer, Marcel Vaz, Gaurav Kandlikar, Sarah Johnson, Laura Bogar, Tsung Fung Au |
2018 | Charlotte Brown, Rebecca Dalton, Julie Davis, Anna Farrell, Gaurav Kandlikar, Josh Scholl, Soren Struckman |
2017 | Aubrie James, Joshua Lynn, Callie Oldfield, Nikki Forrester |
2016 | Janelle Eck, Marion Holmes, Shivani Jadeja, Melanie Kazenel, Deirdre Loughnan, Sarah Richman, Matthew Tye |
2015 | Charlotte C. Trowbridge, Laura Doubleday, Jessica Kettenbach, Gabriella L. Pardee, Jay W. Wason III, Kimberley Taylor, Y. Anny Chung |
2014 | Zak Gezon, Jeremy Johnson, Brittany West Marsden, Nana Zhang |
2013 | Kelsey Yule, Megan Sebasky, Miranda Redmond, Will Petry, Kane Keller, Jessica Pratt |
2012 | Kristin Powell, Juan Alvarez-Yepiz, Will Petry, Matthew Kaproth, Anny Yan-Yi Chung, Bennett |
2011 | Christopher Bowman-Prideaux, Scott Chamberlain, Aldo Compagnoni, Kimberly Kellett, Abigail Kula, Sean Michaletz, Ian Pfingsten, Rob Strahan |
2010 | Aaron David; other awardee(s) unknown |
2009 | Two awards; awardees unknown |
2008 | Katherine Gerst |
2007 | Kristen Hladun |
2006 | Melanie Barnes, Erika Hersch, Kristen Hladun, Abigail Kula, Somereet Nijjer |
2005 | Kristin Anton, Richard Lankau, Lori Spindler |
2004 | Amy Blair, Beth Lawrence |