{"id":72,"date":"2014-04-23T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:45:31","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Plant Population Ecology Student Travel\/Registration Awards \u2013 <em>Due April 30, 2025<\/em>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he ESA Plant Population Ecology section plans to award 3-4 travel awards of $200 \u2013 300 each to graduate student members of the section to attend the 2025 annual meeting in person.\u00a0 <strong>Applications are due April 30, 2025 \u00a0before midnight (PDT)<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><b>Eligibility:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">To receive the award, you must:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">be the presenter\/first author of a talk or poster at the meeting, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">be a member of the section (if you are not sure whether you are up to date with the section dues, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:membership@esa.org\">membership@esa.org<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><b>Instructions:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 18pt\">To apply, please complete the following form: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/D4jJwhDbzwAkc3pt9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/D4jJwhDbzwAkc3pt9<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><b>Selection process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 18pt\">Applications will be evaluated based on relevance of research interests and goals, financial need, and the potential for attendance to advance research and professional goals.\u00a0 These criteria will be used to rank applications into priority funding groups (high\/medium\/low) and then names will be randomly selected from within funding groups to select awardees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Past Student Travel Award recipients<\/h3>\n<div class=\"responsive\">\n<table class=\"table-striped table-responsive\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 509px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%\">2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%\">Cole Doolittle, Nadejda Sero, Madeleine Wallace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%\">2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%\">Tianna Barber-Cross, Cole Doolittle, Julia Kachanova, \u00a0Nadejda Sero, Taylor Zallek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Lina Arag\u00f3n, Joshua Fowler, Emily Holden, Jacob Moutouama, Jack Sytsma, Takuji Usui<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Lina Arag\u00f3n, Danielle De La Pascua, Alejandra Mart\u00ednez-Blancas, Jacob Moutouama, Zhe Ren, and Ver\u00f3nica Zepeda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Sade Perez Partridge, Alejandra Mart\u00ednez-Blancas, Ver\u00f3nica Zepeda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Meredith Zettlemoyer, Marcel Vaz, Gaurav Kandlikar, Sarah Johnson, Laura Bogar, Tsung Fung Au<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 48px\">2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 48px\">Charlotte Brown, Rebecca Dalton, Julie Davis, Anna Farrell, Gaurav Kandlikar, Josh Scholl, Soren Struckman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2017<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Aubrie James, Joshua Lynn, Callie Oldfield, Nikki Forrester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 48px\">2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 48px\">Janelle Eck, Marion Holmes, Shivani Jadeja, Melanie Kazenel, Deirdre Loughnan, Sarah Richman, Matthew Tye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 48px\">2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 48px\">Charlotte C. Trowbridge, Laura Doubleday, Jessica Kettenbach, Gabriella L. Pardee, Jay W. Wason III, Kimberley Taylor, Y. Anny Chung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2014<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Zak Gezon, Jeremy Johnson, Brittany West Marsden, Nana Zhang<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2013<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Kelsey Yule, Megan Sebasky, Miranda Redmond, Will Petry, Kane Keller, Jessica Pratt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2012<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Kristin Powell, Juan Alvarez-Yepiz, Will Petry, Matthew Kaproth, Anny Yan-Yi Chung, Bennett<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 29px\">2011<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 29px\">Christopher Bowman-Prideaux, Scott Chamberlain, Aldo Compagnoni, Kimberly Kellett, Abigail Kula, Sean Michaletz, Ian Pfingsten, Rob Strahan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%\">2010<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%\">Aaron David; other awardee(s) unknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2009<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Two awards; awardees unknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2008<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;width: 86.727689%\">Katherine Gerst<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2007<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Kristen Hladun<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2006<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Melanie Barnes, Erika Hersch, Kristen Hladun, Abigail Kula, Somereet Nijjer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2005<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Kristin Anton, Richard Lankau, Lori Spindler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 12.128146%;height: 24px\">2004<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 86.727689%;height: 24px\">Amy Blair, Beth Lawrence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology \u2013\u00a0<em>Due May 30, 2025<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-535 size-thumbnail img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2020\/07\/scr-03-Jul-20-13.38.011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/h3>\n<p>The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to offer the<strong> Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology <\/strong>again in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This award is generously sponsored by the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aobpla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>AoB PLANTS<\/em><\/a>, and recognizes a distinguished journal contribution to plant population ecology within the past year by a postdoctoral member of the PPE section.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Established in 2010 and published by Oxford University Press, <em>AoB PLANTS<\/em> is a non-profit, open-access journal specializing in environmental and evolutionary plant biology. The journal has distinguished Advisory and Editorial Boards, renders first decisions on manuscripts in an average of 30-40 days, and has a 2023 Impact Factor score of 2.60.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Eligibility<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applicants must currently be a postdoc and a member of the PPE section (if applicants are not a member of ESA or the PPE section, they can join prior to applying). Applicants must be first author on the publication, which may result from either dissertation or postdoctoral research. We also welcome applications from postdocs who were the primary mentors for undergraduate student first authors (please explain in the statement). Publications in any journal are eligible, provided they were <\/span><b>published between January 2024 and May 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Manuscripts that were accepted for publication by May 2025 may also be submitted for consideration. Only one publication will be considered per applicant. Prior winners of the award are not eligible.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Application<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To apply, submit as a single, merged pdf file with both a qualifying manuscript and a brief (~200 word) statement describing how the paper advances the field of plant population ecology. Applications should be emailed to the PPE Secretary Gordon Fitch (gmfitch@yorku.ca) <\/span><b>by May 30, 2025 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">using \u201cESA PPE \u2013 AoBP Postdoc Award\u201d as the subject line. <strong>Both s<\/strong><\/span><b>elf nominations and nominations by mentors\/collaborators are welcome!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Past Postdoctoral Excellence Award recipients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Jacob K. Moutouama, for the paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/ecy.3990\">Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant<\/a>\u201c<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Gregor Siegmund, for the paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/ecy.3948\">Statistical inference for seed mortality and germination with seed bank experiments<\/a>\u201c<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Eric Scott, for the paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/gcb.15900\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments<\/span><\/a>\u201c<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Aubrie James, for the paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1365-2745.13408\">Species-specific variation in germination rates contributes to spatial coexistence more than adult plant water use in four closely related annual flowering plants<\/a>\u201c<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Po-Ju Ke<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Susana Wadgymar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Robert Shriver<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2017<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>William Petry<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Jenni McDonald<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Eugenio Larios<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2014<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Jennifer Gremer<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2013<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Rupesh Kariyat;\u00a0Roberto Salguero-Gomez (Honorable Mention)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 202.84375px\">2012<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2045.1875px\"><strong>Jennifer Williams<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant Population Ecology Student Travel\/Registration Awards \u2013 Due April 30, 2025\u00a0 The ESA Plant Population Ecology section plans to award 3-4 travel awards of $200 \u2013 300 each to graduate student members of the section to attend the 2025 annual meeting in person.\u00a0 Applications are due April 30, 2025 \u00a0before midnight (PDT).\u00a0\u00a0 Eligibility: To receive the award, you must: be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}