E. Lucy Braun Award
Since 1988, the E. Lucy Braun Award is given annually for the outstanding poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society by an undergraduate or graduate student or a person with a doctorate who has defended their thesis within the previous nine months.
Award year terminology in the Bulletin and ESA press releases has varied over the years. In the table below the year shown is the year the poster was presented.
| Year | Full Name | Last Name | ESA Bulletin | Citation | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Shannon M. Collins | Collins | Link | Bottom-up impacts of rotational grazing disturbance on ground-nesting bee assemblages: do they dig it? | |
| 2021 | Caroline S. Dallstream | Dallstream | Link | Drought promotes early leaf abscission regardless of leaf habit but increases litter phosphorus losses only in evergreens | |
| 2020 | Katherine S. Rocci | Rocci | Link | Not all soil carbon is made equal: Using meta-analytical techniques to understand differential effects of global environmental change on soil organic matter components | Caitlin P. Mandeville |
| 2019 | Agostina Torres | Torres | Link | Inverse priority effects: Order of invasive species removal affects early plant community assemblage | Lin Meng |
| 2018 | Jacqueline J. Peña | Peña | Link | Plant evolutionary response to climate change: Detecting adaptation across experimental and natural precipitation gradients | |
| 2017 | Michel T. Kohl | Kohl | Link | Elk selection for vacant predator niches favors coexistence with wolves and cougars in northern Yellowstone National Park | Hayley R. Tumas |
| 2016 | Julienne E. NeSmith | NeSmith | Link | Interactive effects of soil moisture and plant invasion on pine tree survival. | |
| 2015 | Timothy Fegel | Fegel | Link | Biogeochemical attributes of ice glaciers and rock glacier in low latitude alpine ecosystems | |
| 2014 | No award | ||||
| 2013 | No award due to significant technical problems with judging | ||||
| 2012 | Tony Kovach | Kovach | Link | Determinants of avian density across a fragmented landscape | Laura Bogar |
| 2011 | Ernane H. M. Vieira Neto | Neto | Link | How proximity to roads influences the local spatial dynamics and population growth rates of a Neotropical herbivore. | |
| 2010 | Joseph E. Fader | Fader | Link | An empirical test of the aggregation model of coexistence and consequences for coexistence of container-dwelling Aedes mosquitoes | |
| 2009 | Jenise M. Bauman | Bauman | Link | Environmental variables as predictors for ectomycorrhizal species in American chestnut (Castanea dentata) mine reclamation. | |
| 2008 | Emily Farrer | Farrer | Link | The balance of positive and negative interactions in driving community dynamics. | |
| 2007 | Jacquelyn L. Gill | Gill | Link | Investigating biotic drivers of Quaternary landscape change: Late Glacial no-analog vegetation communities and the North American megafaunal extinction in Northeastern Indiana. | |
| 2006 | Daniel Laughlin | Laughlin | Link | Climate-induced temporal variation in the productivity-diversity relationship. | |
| 2005 | Phoebe L. Zarnetske | Zarnetske | Link | Modeling Forest Bird Species' Habitat with Extant Presence Points and Generated Pseudo-Absence Points in Utah. | |
| 2004 | Pedro Flombaum | Flombaum | Link | The role of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a removal experiment in the Patagonian steppe, Argentina. | |
| 2003 | Sean T. Michaletz | Michaletz | Link | A process based approach for predicting surface fire effects on trees. | Lina Taneva |
| 2002 | Timothy L. Dickson | Dickson | Link | Constraints on plant diversity at high productivity: isolating the role of light limitation. | |
| 2001 | Antonio Golubski | Golubski | Link | Multiple partners: possible impacts on mycorrhizal community dynamics and diversity. | Matthew J. St. Pierre |
| 2000 | David E. Lytle | Lytle | Link | Constraints on forest regrowth following 19th century clear-cutting and fire. | Madan Shrestha, Sang Vo |
| 1999 | Dylan Perry | Perry | Link | Macrogeographic variation in fecundity, offspring size and host plant use in a polyphagous moth. | |
| 1998 | Kara L. Webster | Webster | Link | The population dynamics of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) in the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. | |
| 1997 | Caren C. Dymond | Dymond | Link | Subalpine community composition along topographically modeled resource gradients in a South Eastern Canadian Rockies watershed. | |
| 1996 | Andrew P. Beckerman | Beckerman | Link | Mechanistic competition experiments: an included niche scenario for two grasshopper species in an old field community. | |
| 1995 | Stephan M. Ogle | Ogle | Link | Exotic plant invasion and ecosystem features at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. | Mark D. Bowen |
| 1994 | Karen L. Kandl | Kandl | Link | Inbreeding, family, and genotype affect environmental tolerance of mosquitofish. ESA Bulletin 75 (Suppl): 105. | Rebecca A. Young |
| 1993 | Rebecca A. Reed | Reed | Link | Nutrient supply available to species colonizing gaps in chalk grassland. ESA Bulletin 74 (Suppl): 404. | Stephen B. Heard |
| 1992 | Jennifer H. Mattei | Mattei | Link | Cost and benefits of chemical defense production in Brassica cultivars. ESA Bulletin 73 (Suppl): 264. | Shujin Hu, Janet A. Morrison |
| 1991 | Amy Daum Rosemond | Rosemond | Link | An autumnal shift from herbivory to detritivory in a woodland stream and the consequent effects on the algae. ESA Bulletin 72 (Suppl): 234. | Brian S. Pederson |
| 1990 | Barbara A. Roy | Roy | Link | Pollinator theft by a fungus. ESA Bulletin 71(Suppl): 309. | Bruce K. Orr |
| 1989 | Silvia I. Strauss-Debenedetti | Strauss-Debenedetti | Link | Responses to light in tropical Moraceae of different successional stages. ESA Bulletin 70 (Suppl): 274. | Diane M. Cinquemeni |
| 1988 | Nancy L. Munn | Munn | Link | Substrate-specific nutrient uptake in two small streams: an intersite comparison. Abstract not published | G.I. Fryer |