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JGLR/Elsevier Early Career Scientist Award

The JGLR/Elsevier Early Career Award is awarded to the top-ranked paper in the current volume of the Journal of Great Lakes Research whose lead author was within five years of graduation from their terminal degree at the time of acceptance.  Papers are judged by the IAGLR Chandler-Misener Review Committee.

Recipients receive a complimentary International Association for Great Lakes Research one-year membership and a $750 cash prize (US$). Evaluations are based on

  1. Originality, an outstanding original piece of work;
  2. Contribution, a substantial body of theoretical, experimental or field research;
  3. Presentation, clarity of literary style and illustration.

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Recipients

2023 Joshua Tellier, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, Widespread prevalence of hypoxia and the classification of hypoxic conditions in the Laurentian Great Lakes
2022 Jasmine Mancuso, Oakland University, Cold and wet: Diatoms dominate the phytoplankton community during a year of anomalous weather in a Great Lakes estuary
2021 Jordan Matley, University of Windsor, Seasonal habitat-use differences among Lake Erie’s walleye stocks
2020 Dulcinea Avouris, Kent State University, Validation of 2015 Lake Erie MODIS image spectral decomposition using visible derivative spectroscopy and field campaign data
2019 Jiying Li, University of Minnesota Duluth, Sediment geochemistry and contributions to carbon and nutrient cycling in a deep meromictic tropical lake: Lake Malawi (East Africa)
2018 Jeremiah Davis, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Effects of tow transit on the efficacy of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Electric Dispersal Barrier System
2017 Louise Chavarie, University of Alberta
2016 Jonah Withers, Purdue University, Dept. Forestry and Natural Resources
2015 Christopher Wellen, University of Toronto, Dept. of Physical & Environmental Sciences
2014 Sarah Thomasen, McMaster University
2013 Rebekah Kipp, McGill University
2012 David Depew, Queens University
2011 Sairah Malkin, University of Waterloo
2010 Scott Higgins, University of Wisconsin-Madison