Year

Recipient

2007

Kristen DeVanna, University of Toledo
Burrowing Mayfly Habitat Choice: Effects on Fish Foraging

Osvaldo J. Sepulveda-Villet, University of Toledo
A High-Resolution DNA Data Base for Fishery Management of Yellow Perch Stock Structure in the Great Lakes and Prediction of Susceptibility to Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia

2006

Joshua Brown, University of Toledo
Temoral analysis of Great Lakes invaders: a population genetic approach

John Poulopoulos, Queen’s University
Historical and contemporary food web structures of large inland Ontario lakes

2005

Sergei Bocaniov, University of Waterloo

Matthew Neilson, University of Toledo

2004

Johanna Rinta-Kanto, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
The use of real-time PCR for detection and quantification of the abundance of the cyanobacterium Microcystis sp. in Lake Erie and expression of microcystin synthetase gene D (mcyD) among the cyanobacterial populations

Sarah Gewurtz, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
Mechanisms controlling the application of persistent organic pollutants in the food web of freshwater systems: case studies of Lakes Ellasjøen and Øyangen located on Bear Island, Norway, and Lake Laberge, YT, Canada, and Lake Winnipeg, MB, Canada

2003

John Johnston, Indiana University

Kristin Arend, Cornell University

2002

Matthew Hudson, Water Resources Science, University of Minnesota

Virginia Pasour (Declined), Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University.

2001

Robert Booth, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming
The relationship between Holocene climate change and water level fluctuations in the western Great Lakes

Sharon Johnson, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
Effects of habitat characteristics on the distribution, growth and survival of young of year fish in Great Lakes coastal wetlands

2000

Rajat K. Chakraborti, Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, SUNY Buffalo
Application of In-situ Processing Technique in Dynamic Characterization of Particle Aggregation by Fractal Approach

Sondra M. Miller (Declined), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa

1999

Michael Bombich, Bowling Green State University
Round Goby Effects on the Benthic and Pelagic Communities and Nutrient Availability

Veronique Hiriart, University of Waterloo
Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Natural Phytoplankton Communities of Lake Erie

Patricia Ramlal (Declined), University of Waterloo
The Cycling of Organic Matter in Lake Malawi

1998

Timothy W. Stewart, Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University

1997

Mark B. Edlund, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences, University of Michigan

1996

Annette Trowbridge, University of Minnesota, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

Richard J. Ruby, SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse), Department of Environmental Forest Biology

1995

James T. Waples, University of Wisconsin

1994

Jason Stockwell, University of Toronto, Erindale College

1993

Michael R. Twiss, University of Quebec

Soon-Jin Hwang (Declined), Kent State University

1992

Russell W. Brown, Michigan State University

1991

David W. Bolgrien, University of Wisconsin

1990

Anthony O. Gabriel, University of Guelph

1989

Hunter J. Carrick, University of Michigan

1988

James B. Cotner, Jr., University of Michigan

1987

John F. Kocik, Michigan State University

Kelly D. Smith, University of Toronto