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
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 |
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