Awards
- US-IALE 2008 Awards Update
- Background Information on the Award Selection Process
- Past US-IALE Award Recipients
- Foreign Scholar Travel Award
US-IALE 2008 Awards Update
Congratulations to the following 2008 Award winners, announced at the annual banquet held on April 8th in Madison.
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology (2007)
The committee reviews nominations for papers published during the past two years that make an outstanding contribution to the literature of the field of landscape ecology. This year we selected Falk et al.'s study on fire patterns in forests of western North America across spatial scales.
Falk, D.A., C. Miller, D. McKenzie, and A.E. Black. 2007. Cross-Scale Analysis of Fire Regimes, Ecosystems, 10:809-823.
Co-authors Carol Miller and Donald McKenzie were at the Awards banquet
to receive the award.
Two papers received Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology Honorable
Mention Awards:
Gobster, P.H., J.I. Nassauer, T.C. Daniel, and G. Fry. 2007. The shared landscape: what does aesthetics have to do with ecology? Landscape Ecology 22:959-972.
Koper, N., F.K.A. Schmiegelow, and E.H. Merrill. 2007. Residuals cannot distinguish between ecological effects of habitat amount and fragmentation: implications for the debate. Landscape Ecology 22:811-820.
Joan Nassauer was at the Awards banquet to receive the award on behalf of the authors.
Best Student Presentation (2007)
The recipients of Awards for Best Student Presentations in 2007 were:
Cathy Collins, Kansas University
Patch size affects plant extinction rates in an experimentally fragmented grassland (oral presentation)
Benjamin Zuckerberg, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Implications of the abundance-occupancy rule: Can atlas data be used to monitor avian population change? (oral presentation)
Analysis of evaluations led to a statistical tie in the scores for these presentations. Both students received a $500 cash award recognizing their achievement.
Best Student Presentation (2008)
This year 20 students registered to have their papers considered for this award and 40 judges evaluated the student presentations (at least three reviews per student) during the Annual Symposium in Madison. The Awards committee is pleased to announce two winners of the 2008 Best Student Presentation Award:
Bronwyn Rayfield, University of Toronto
Identifying potential movement pathways in fragmented landscapes: incorporating uncertainty in landscape resistance (oral presentation)
Sarah Olson, University of Wisconsin
Malaria patterns and hydrology in the Amazon - will land use and cover changes alter risk? (poster presentation)
Many thanks to all the student participants and especially to the judges who make the student award program possible: John Bradford, Kimberley Brosofske, Jiquan Chen, Kirsten de Beurs, Diane Debinski, Paula Dias, Thomas Dilts, Ashton Drew, James Forester, Urs Gimmi, Alessandro Gimona, Eric Gustafson, Geoff Henebry, Falk Huettmann, Margareta Ihse, Dan Kashian, Margot Kaye, Ed Laurent, Rachel Loehman, Todd Lookingbill, Anna Marburg, Don McKenzie, Brenden McNeil, Ross Meentemeyer, Carol Miller, Emily Minor, Anita Morzillo, Jian Peng, Bryan Pijanowski, Roy Plotnick, Kevin Potter, Anantha Prasad, Vanessa Quinn, Jeanine Rheumtulla, Sam Riffell, Sari Saunders, Brian Sturtevant, Mike Wimberly, Joy Wolf, and Pat Zollner.
Please be sure to send in your nominations for society awards when we issue the call for nominations later this year. And, please consider serving as a judge for the student award program. Thanks!
Finally, we thank the outgoing members of the Awards Committee: Jack Ahern, Margaret Livingston, and Janet Silbernagel for their years of dedicated service! We thank Geoff Henebry for serving as transitional chair for this past year. Concurrently, we welcome Pete August (URI) and Jeff Hollister (US EPA) as new members.
Members of the 2008 US-IALE Awards Committee are Anita Morzillo (chair), Pete August, Geoff Henebry, Jeff Hollister and Steven Walters.
Background Information on the Award Selection Process
Each year the awards committee sends out calls for nomination of candidates for each of the US-IALE awards. These calls are circulated in the newsletter and to the US IALE list server. Nominations should contain more than simple assertions of a candidate's worthiness. For example, elaborations such as statistics on the number of times a particular paper by a candidate has been cited in the ISI database are preferable to statements about the candidate authoring a citation classic. Similarly, a list of specific accomplishments and contributions to US IALE is much more meaningful than stating that someone is an important leader.
Typically the Awards Committee will present only one of the 'Distinguished' awards each year. The committee will review nominations of candidates for all three awards annually and select the single candidate most deserving across all the nominations. In exceptional years we might present two or even three of these awards, but the standard practice will be to present only the single most deserving candidate each year. The intent is to maintain the stature of all of the awards by making them more competitive.
Once a candidate is nominated, the awards committee considers the nomination annually, so it is not necessary for nominations to be resubmitted in subsequent years. If multiple nominations are received for a candidate, all nomination materials are considered together.
Student Presentation Award winners are selected based on the evaluations of the judges assigned to critique each presentation. At least three judges evaluate each student. Evaluation criteria are equally weighted by 1) significance of ideas, 2) creativity, 3) quality of methodology, 4) validity of conclusions drawn for results and 5) clarity of presentation.
Past US-IALE Award Recipients
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist
The Award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contribution to the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking and writing have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development. This award is ordinarily given for outstanding scientific achievement over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by our Chapter.
| 2007 | Eric J. Gustafson |
| 2006 | Bruce T. Milne |
| 2005 | H. Ronald Pulliam |
| 2004 | Thomas Crow |
| 2003 | Simon Levin |
| 2002 | Louis Iverson |
| 2001 | Gary Barrett |
| 2000 | Paul Risser |
| 1999 | No awards made to avoid conflict with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 | Monica G. Turner |
| 1997 | Gray Merriam |
| 1996 | John Wiens |
| 1995 | Robert O'Neill |
| 1994 | Robert Gardner |
| 1992 | Richard T.T. Forman |
| 1991 | Frank Golley |
Distinguished Landscape Practitioner
The award for Distinguished Landscape Practitioner is given for distinguished contributions in the application of the principles of landscape ecology to real-world problems. The intent is to recognize unusual contributions to landscape ecology through the creative applications of this science to the resolution of practical dilemmas. This award is given for outstanding applications over a period of years.
| 2005 | David Hulse |
| 2004 | Frederick Steiner, University of Texas |
| 2003 | USGS GAP Program |
| 2002 | The Great Plains Restoration Council for The Buffalo Commons |
| 2001 | The Nature Conservancy |
| 2000 | Larry Harris |
| 1999 | No awards made to avoid conflict with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 | Joan Iverson Nassauer |
| 1997 | Michael Hough, Hough, Woodland, Naylor, Dance, Etobicole, Ontario |
| 1996 | Carl Steinitz, Harvard School of Design |
| 1995 | Wisconsin Chapter of the Nature Conservancy for the Baraboo Hills project |
| 1994 | Nancy Diaz, Mt. Hood NF |
| 1991 | Andropogon Associates |
Distinguished Service Award
The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have contributed exceptionally to US-IALE. Exceptional service represents a contribution to US-IALE in terms of time, energy and dedication that advanced the mission of US-IALE in an extraordinary manner and thus deserves special recognition.
| 2006 | Distinguished Service Award - Garik Gutman, William Taylor and Jack Liu |
| 2005 | Distinguished Service Award - David J. Mladenoff |
| 2001 | Leadership in Action Award - Jerry F. Franklin |
| 1998 | Distinguished Service Award - Eugene P. Odum |
| 1998 | Distinguished Service Award - Frank B. Golley |
| 1997 | Outstanding Book Published in Landscape Ecology - Richard T. Forman (Land Mosaics, Cambridge Press, 1995) |
| 1995 | Distinguished Service Award - Forest Stearns |
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology
The award for Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology is given for an outstanding contribution to the literature of the field of landscape ecology. The paper must have been published in a scientific journal in the past two years.
| 2008 | Falk, D.A., C. Miller, D. McKenzie, and A.E. Black. 2007. Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes. Ecosystems 10:809-823. |
| 2007 | Laurance, W.F., H.E.M. Nascimento, S.G. Laurance, A. Andrade, J.E.L.S. Ribeiro, J.P. Giraldo, T.E. Lovejoy, R. Condit, J. Chave, K.E. Harms, and S. D'Angelo. 2006. Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (United States) 103:19010-19014. |
| 2006 | An, L., M. Linderman, J. Qi, A. Shortridge, and J. Liu. 2005. Exploring complexity in a human-environment system: an agent-based spatial model for multidisciplinary and multiscale integration. Annals of American Association of Geographers 95: 54–79. |
| 2005 | Farhig, L. 2003. Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34:487-515. |
| 2004 | Hargrove, W.H., F.M. Hoffman, and P.M. Schwartz. 2002. A fractal landscape realizer for generating synthetic maps. Conservation Ecology 6: article 2 (online). |
| 2003 | Tewksbury, J.J., D.J. Levey, N.M. Haddad, J.L. Orrock, A. Weldon, B.J. Danielson, J. Brinkerhoff, E.I. Damschen, and P. Townsend. 2002. Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (United States) 99:12923-12926. |
| 2002 | With, K.A. and A.W. King. 2001. Analysis of landscape sources and sinks: the effect of spatial pattern on avian demography. Biological Conservation 100:75-88. |
| 2001 | Keymer, J.E., P. Marquet, J.V. Hernandez, and S. Levin. 2000. Extinction thresholds and metapopulation persistence in dynamic landscapes. American Naturalist 156:478-494. |
| 2000 | Wear, D.N., and P. Bolstad. 1998. Land-use changes in southern Appalachian landscapes: spatial analysis and forecast evaluation. Ecosystems 1:575-594. |
| 1999 | No awards made to avoid conflict with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 | Flather, C.H., and J.R. Sauer. 1996. Using landscape ecology to test hypotheses about large-scale abundance patterns in migratory birds. Ecology 77:28-35. |
| 1997 | Mladenoff, D.J., T.A. Sickley, R.G. Haight, and A.P. Wydeven. 1995. A regional landscape analysis and prediction of favorable gray wolf habitat in the northern Great Lakes region. Conservation Biology 9:279-294. |
| 1996 | With, K.A., and T.O. Crist. 1995. Critical thresholds in species' responses to landscape structure. Ecology 76:2446-2459. |
| 1995 | Johnson, C. 1994. Woodland expansion in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and causes. Ecological Monographs 64:45-84. |
| 1994 | Wiens, J.A., N.C. Stenseth, B. Van Horne, and R.A. Ims. 1993. Ecological mechanisms and landscape ecology. Oikos 66:369-380. |
| 1993 | No awards made |
| 1992 | Milne, B. 1992. Spatial aggregation and neutral models in fractal landscapes. American Naturalist 139:32-57. |
| 1991 | Andow, D.A., P.M. Karieva, S.A. Levin, and A. Okubo. 1990. Spread of invading organisms. Landscape Ecology 4:177-188. |
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology - Honorable Mention
| 2008 | Gobster, P.H., J.I. Nassauer, T.C. Daniel, and G. Fry. 2007. The shared landscape: what does aesthetics have to do with ecology? Landscape Ecology 22:959-972. |
| 2008 | Koper, N., F.K.A. Schmiegelow, and E.H. Merrill. 2007. Residuals cannot distinguish between ecological effects of habitat amount and fragmentation: implications for the debate. Landscape Ecology 22:811-820. |
| 2005 | Remmel, T.K. and F. Csillag. 2003. When are two landscape pattern indices significantly different? Journal of Geographical Systems 5:331-351. |
Best Student Presentation
The award for Best Student Presentation is given for the best oral or poster presentation given by a student at the previous Annual Meeting. The award consists of a certificate commemorating the award, and a travel grant of $500 toward attendance at the next Annual Meeting.
| 2008 | Bronwyn Rayfield, University of Toronto. Identifying potential movement pathways in fragmented landscapes: incorporating uncertainty in landscape resistance (oral) |
| 2008 | Sarah Olson, University of Wisconsin. Malaria patterns and hydrology in the Amazon - will land use and cover changes alter risk? (poster) |
| 2007 | Cathy Collins, Kansas University. Patch size affects plant extinction rates in an experimentally fragmented grassland. (oral) |
| 2007 | Benjamin Zuckerberg, State University of New York. Implications of the abundance-occupancy rule: Can atlas data be used to monitor avian population change? (oral) |
| 2006 | Patrick James, University of Toronto. Simulating the effects of shifting harvest policies on long term spatial patterns of forest age structure. (oral) |
| 2005 | Yolanda Wiersma, University of Guelph. Beta-diversity and reserve design in Canada. (oral) |
| 2004 | Brad McRae, Northern Arizona University. Integrating landscape ecology and population genetics: new tools from circuit theory. (oral) |
| 2003 | Jennifer Miller. A comparison of methods for incorporating spatial dependence in predictive vegetation models. (oral) |
| 2002 | Tenley Conway, Rutgers University. The impact of future development on the water and terrestrial resources in the Barnegat Bay Watershed NJ. (oral) |
| 2001 | Matthew Baker. Predicting spatial variation in riparian hydrology and forest composition across lower Michigan. (oral) |
| 2000 | Edward Laurent, Purdue University. Modeling habitat context for the endangered copperbelly water snake (oral) |
| 1999 | No awards made to avoid conflict with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 | Patrick Zollner, Indiana State University. Search strategies for landscape-level inter-patch movements (oral) |
| 1997 | Jing Huang, Oregon State University. Characterizing forest spatial pattern using digitized aerial photographs (oral) |
| 1996 | Nancy McIntyre, Colorado State University. Effects of internal and external motivational factors on animal movements in experimental landscapes (oral) |
| 1995 | Timothy Keitt, University of New Mexico. Detecting critical scales in fragmented landscapes (oral) |
| 1994 | George Hess, North Carolina State University. Could increased connectivity be more than we bargained for? (poster) |
| 1991 | Joseph Miller, Pennsylvania State University. Landscape patterns and biotic communities characteristics in central Pennsylvania (poster) |
Best Student Presentation - Honorable Mention
| 2005 | Alicia Ellis, Darmouth College. Linking individual movement to population level processes in tree hole mosquito systems. (oral) |
| 2004 | Don Falk, University of Arizona. Event-area relationships: scaling rules for fire regimes. (oral) |
| 2003 | Monika Moskal. Harmonic analysis of natural and man made disturbances in the Yellowstone region. (oral) |
| 2002 | Kenneth Pierce, Duke University. Detecting scale-specific interactions between seed dispersal and environment. (oral) |
| 2001 | Geoffrey Hay. Scale-space for landscape ecologists: a novel approach for defining multi-scale landscape structure in high-resolution imagery. (oral) |
| 2000 | Jennifer Fraterrigo. Low density human settlement in the Rocky Mountain west: does it matter to bird communities? (poster) |
| 2000 | Veronique St. Louis. Does vegetation heterogeneity have any effect on territory delimitation of black-throated blue warblers (Dendroica caurulescens) and ovenbird (Sierus aurocapillus)? (oral) |
| 1999 | No awards made to avoid conflict with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 | Penny Flick. A multiple-scale approach to reserve site selection. (poster) |
| 1997 | Deborah J. Bishop. Topographic effects on avian richness, abundance, and probability of site use during spring migration. (poster) |
| 1996 | Sandra Luque. The impact of management practices on the landscape of a natural reserve: The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a case study. |
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