ICRS Officers and Council are pleased to announce the following 2021 ICRS Award Winners:
Eminence in Research Award
- Jorge Cortés-Núñez, University of Costa Rica
- Helmut Schuhmacher, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mid-Career Award
- Luiz Rocha, California Academy of Sciences
Early Career Award
- Nyssa Silbiger, California State University, Northridge
Coral Reef Conservation Award
- Melanie McField, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative / Smithsonian Institution
ICRS Fellow
In addition to the winners listed above, who automatically receive ICRS Fellow status, the following nominees were also awarded ICRS Fellow status:
- Ania Banaszak, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Howard Lasker, University at Buffalo
ICRS Graduate Fellowship Award
- Natalie Andersen, University of Exeter
- Emily Chei, University of Hong Kong
- Benjamin Farmer, Louisiana State University
- Akacia Halliday-Isaac, University of Mississippi
- Katherine Lawson, State University of New York
- Clayton Vondriska, Arkansas State University
Thank you to all nominees, nominators, and writers of letters of support. Special thanks to the Carly You all help to make the ICRS a thriving Society.
The ICRS supports diversity and inclusivity and we are happy to be able to award scientists and students from across the globe. We encourage all ICRS members to nominate candidates for awards in the coming years that will continue building this esteemed and globally diverse group of awardees. We note that Graduate Fellowship Applications were only received from 3 nations this year and we aim to increase this diversity in the coming years. Thank you for all that you do to investigate, protect, and conserve coral reef ecosystems.
Dr. Andréa Grottoli, ICRS President
Dr. Carly J Randall, ICRS Honors and Awards Committee Chair
