“help recognize the work of your ISRS colleagues!”
The ISRS awards committee calls for members assistance in nominating deserving fellow members for the following annual awards and honors:
- Young Scientist Award
- Mid-Career Scientist Award
- Eminence in Research Award
- World Reef Award
- ISRS Fellow
Please think of your well-deserving colleagues and submit a nomination by the deadline of 15 January 2018. Eligibility details and nomination forms for each award can be found at http://coralreefs.org/about-us/society-awards-and-grants/awards-fellowships/. The closing date for receipt of nominations for each award is 15 January 2018.
Nominations should be sent as a single .pdf or word file by email to the secretary of the Society’s awards committee, Dr. Ilsa B. Kuffner, at ikuffner@usgs.gov. The file should be assembled and sent by the nominator, and the file should be named AWARD_NOMINATOR_NOMINEE, with the award, nominator and nominees names inserted as appropriate.
Please pay special attention to the award-eligibility criteria, and note that all nominators, nominees, and those writing letters of support must be current members of ISRS. Thank you and good luck to those that participate in this year’s competition!
As background infornation, here is a list of ISRS awardees to date:
| Eminence in Research Award: | |
| Brown, Barbara | 2015 |
| Fabricius, Katharina | 2016 |
| Willis, Bette | 2016 |
| Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove | 2017 |
| McClanahan, Timothy | 2017 |
| Mid-Career Award: | |
| Mumby, Peter | 2015 |
| Grottoli, Andrea | 2016 |
| Pratchett, Morgan | 2017 |
| World Reef Award: | |
| Mangubhai, Sangeeta | 2016 |
| Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo | 2017 |
| Maina Mbui, Joseph | 2017 |
| Young Scientist Award: | |
| Muller, Erinn | 2015 |
| Darling, Emily | 2017 |
