Awards
- US-IALE 2010 Awards Update
- Background Information on the Award Selection Process
- Past US-IALE Award Recipients
- Foreign Scholar Travel Award
Members of the 2010 US-IALE Awards Committee are Anita Morzillo (chair), Pete August, Jeff Hollister, Todd Lookingbill, and Steven Walters.
US-IALE 2010 Awards Update
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2010 award winners, announced at the annual banquet held in Athens.
Student Travel Awards
Sponsored by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA Professional Enhancement Awards).
| Name | Institution |
| Xiaodong Chen | Michigan State University |
| Jane Foster | University of Wisconsin |
| Jolie Goldenetz-Dollar | Mississippi State University |
| Tabitha Graves | Northern Arizona University |
| Sarah Haas | University of North Carolina-Charlotte |
| Tracy Pinney | Baylor University |
| Andrew Rayburn | Utah State University |
| Clifford Shierk | University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Marcela Suarez-Rubio | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences |
| Anne Trainor | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology (2009)
Smith, A.C., N. Koper, C.M. Francis, and L. Fahrig’ "Confronting collinearity: comparing methods for disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation,” a 2009 paper in Landscape Ecology (24:1271-1285).
Distinguished Service Award
This year’s recipient is Monica Turner, Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Wisconsin. Monica has been an active member of USIALE since its inception 25 years ago. She has hosted three USIALE meetings, the first of which was the inaugural USIALE meeting 25 years ago in Athens, Georgia, a second at Oak Ridge National Lab, and the third at University of Wisconsin. Monica also has served as Program Chair and President, and played a key role in drafting the Executive Handbook for USIALE officials and meeting hosts.
Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award
This year’s recipient is Wes H. Jackson, President of The Land Institute near Salina, Kansas. Wes has maintained a visionary approach to agricultural research and agrarianism in the US and internationally for more than 40 years. He has provided extensive support to faculty and students researching the replacement of monoculture agriculture with perennials in the Midwest and Great Plains, and has published numerous books on sustainable agriculture.
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award
This year we honor two individuals stand out as having made major contributions to the science and practice of landscape ecology, but in very different ways. Joan Iverson Nassauer, a Professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Michigan, is a world-renowned scholar of both landscape architecture and interdisciplinary research, and the first individual to be recognized as both Distinguished Landscape Ecologist and Practitioner. Her work focusing on relating aesthetic human preferences in landscapes and environmental health, and linking landscape science and practice, have been recognized by numerous awards and honors. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu, Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science at Arizona State University, has made exceptional contributions to landscape ecology in the areas of pattern analysis and scaling, urban ecology, integrating landscape ecology and sustainability science, and service to the landscape ecology community. He also has helped maintain landscape ecology-related connections between the US and China by advising students in both countries and directing the Sino-US Center for Conservation, Energy, and Sustainability Science at Inner Mongolia University.
Award for Best Student Presentation
The intent of this award is to recognize the best presentation (oral or poster) given by a student at the previous annual meeting, and includes a $300 cash award, a waiver of one future meeting registration fee, and one complimentary attendance on a fieldtrip or at a workshop of the awardee’s choice at a future annual meeting. Waiver of registration and fieldtrip or workshop fees may be applied to one of the next two subsequent US-IALE annual meetings.
From research results presented at the 2010 US-IALE annual meeting, we congratulate Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, from the University of Rhode Island, for her oral presentation, “Habitat of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the North Atlantic Ocean.”
Many thanks to all the student participants and especially to the judges who make the student award program possible: Amélie Davis, Kristen de Beurs, Ashton Drew, Sarah Goslee, Eric Gustafson, Colleen Hatfield, Jeff Hollister, Falk Huettmann, Yetta Jager, Josh Lawler, Qingmin Meng, Emily Minor, Roy Plotnick, Robert Scheller, Lisa Schulte-Moore, Janet Silbernagel, Mirela Tulbure, Steven Walters, Eric White, and Yolanda Wiersma.
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 for 2-3 years, so it is not necessary for nominations to be resubmitted in subsequent years. However, individuals making nominations should make sure that nomination materials are kept as up-to-date as possible. 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.
| 2010 | Joan Iverson Nassauer and Jianguo (Jingle) Wu |
| 2009 | Herman H. "Hank” Shugart, Jr. |
| 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.
| 2010 | Wes H. Jackson |
| 2009 | Kevin McGarigal |
| 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.
| 2010 | Monica Turner |
| 2006 | Garik Gutman, William Taylor and Jack Liu |
| 2005 | David J. Mladenoff |
| 2001 | Jerry F. Franklin (Leadership in Action Award) |
| 1998 | Eugene P. Odum |
| 1998 | Frank B. Golley |
| 1997 | Richard T.T. Forman (Outstanding Book Published in Landscape Ecology; Land Mosaics, 1995, Cambridge Press) |
| 1995 | 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.
| 2010 | Smith, A.C., N. Koper, C.M. Francis, and L. Fahrig’s. Confronting collinearity: comparing methods for disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation. Landscape Ecology 24:1271-1285. |
| 2009 | Treml, E.A., P.N. Halpin, D.L. Urban, and L.F. Pratson’s. Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation. Landscape Ecology 23:19-36. |
| 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
| 2009 | Nassauer, J.I., and P. Opdam’s. Design in science: extending the landscape ecology paradigm. Landscape Ecology 23:633-644. |
| 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. |
Award for 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 $300 cash award, a certificate commemorating the award, a waiver of one future meeting registration fee, and one complimentary attendance on a fieldtrip or at a workshop of the awardee’s choice at a future annual meeting. Waiver of registration and fieldtrip or workshop fees may be applied to one of the next two subsequent US-IALE annual meetings.
| 2010 | Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, University of Rhode Island. Habitat of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the North Atlantic Ocean (oral) |
| 2009 | Alisa Wade, Colorado State University. Urban encroachment on the US protected area network (oral) |
| 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
| 2009 | Niko Balkenhol, University of Idaho. Hierarchial, multi-scale analysis of landscape-genetic relationships in Idaho cougars (oral) |
| 2009 | Jennifer Litteral, Arizona State University. Effects of urbanization on avian species diversity in the Phoenix metropolitan area: patters in vegetation fragments (oral) |
| 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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