DeMattei wins ESA’s Katherine S. McCarter Policy Award

by the Ohio State University
February 18, 2026

Braden DeMattei, a doctoral student in EEOB was recently named the recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s 2026 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award. The Ecological Society of America (ESA) offers this award each year to give graduate students hands-on training and science policy experience.

Braden is advised by James Hood & Tanya Berger-Wolf.

Read the announcement: https://eeob.osu.edu/news/demattei-wins-esas-katherine-s.-mccarter-policy-award

Read the ESA press release: https://esa.org/blog/2026/02/17/esa-2026-graduate-student-policy-award-cohort-named/