| 2025 | Deborah Lee, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| 2024 | Stephanie Guildford, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota-Duluth |
| 2024 | Robert Hecky, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota-Duluth |
| 2023 | Patricia Chow-Fraser, McMaster University |
| 2022 | J. Val Klump, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences |
| 2021 | Henry Vanderploeg, Chief of Ecosystems Dynamics Branch, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| 2020 | Jan Ciborowski, Professor Emeritus, University of Windsor |
| 2019 | Marty Auer, Michigan Technological University |
| 2018 | William D. Taylor, University of Waterloo |
| 2017 | Thomas Nalepa, University of Michigan, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| 2016 | Ronald Hites, Professor, Indiana University |
| 2015 | Charles Kerfoot, Michigan Technological University |
| 2014 | D.V. (Chip) Weseloh, Canadian Wildlife Service |
| 2013 | David Schwab, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan |
| 2012 | Mohiuddin Munawar, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario |
| 2011 | Joseph V. DePinto, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 2010 | Don MacKay, Director Emeritus, Centre for Environmental Modelling and Chemistry, Trent University |
| 2009 | Murray Charlton, Former Research Scientist and Emeritus Associate, Environment Canada |
| 2008 | Joseph H. Leach, Research Scientist, Lake Erie Fisheries Station, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources |
| 2006 | Eugene Stoermer, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan |
| 2005 | Henry A. Regier, Professor Emeritus, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto |
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