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JGLR/Elsevier Student Award

The JGLR/Elsevier Student Award is awarded annually to the top-ranked paper in the current volume of the Journal of Great Lakes Research whose lead author was a student at the time of acceptance. Papers are judged by the IAGLR Chandler-Misener Review Committee.

Recipients will receive a complimentary International Association for Great Lakes Research one-year membership and $750 cash prize (US$). 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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Deadline: January 15 for articles in JGLR vol. 51 (2025)

Recipients

2025 Courtney Taylor, Trent University, Regional predatory fish diets following a regime shift in Lake Huron
2024 Alexander Duncan, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Fisheries Assessment Program, An investigation into Saugeen Ojibway Nation-based ecological knowledge on the ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) of Lake Huron
2023 Yuli Liu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rip currents near coastal structures in Lake Michigan: Characterization and assessment for warnings
2022 Taylor Stewart, Mississippi State University, Shining a light on Laurentian Great Lakes cisco (Coregonus artedi): How ice coverage may impact embryonic development
2021 Ryan Grow, Lakehead University, Spatial and vertical bias in down-looking ship-based acoustic estimates of fish density in Lake Superior: Lessons learned from multi-directional acoustics
2020 Matthew Futia, University of Vermont, Evaluation of adult and offspring thiamine deficiency in salmonine species from Lake Ontario
2019 Brice Grunert, Michigan Technological University, Quantifying the influence of cold water intrusions in a shallow, coastal system across contrasting years: Green Bay, Lake Michigan
2018 Larry Bowman Jr., East Tennessee State University, A capital breeder in a heterogeneous environment: Lipid reserves and RNA:DNA ratio in Lake Baikal's endemic Epischura
2017 Daniel Titze, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Novel, direct observations of ice on Lake Superior during the high ice coverage of winter 2013-2014
2016 Allison R. Hrycik, University of Vermont, Mysis zooplanktivory in Lake Champlain: A bioenergetics analysis.
2015 Marieke Anna Frassl, University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute, Konstanz, Germany, Algal internal nutrient stores feedback on vertical phosphorus distribution in large lakes
2014 Audrey Bechette, Tom Stojsavljevic, Maxx Tessmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2013 Brooke White, University of Minnesota
2012 Yuko Shimoda, University of Toronto
2011 Cory P. McDonald, Michigan Technological University
2010 Gretchen Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Madison