Student Awards

Students are eligible to compete for the Gruber Award if all the following criteria are met. Gruber candidates:

• must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student, or have completed their degree no more than 12 months before the presentation date;
• must be in at least their second year of AES membership;
• must be a member in good standing of AES, having renewed their membership by the end of the previous calendar year (by 31 December the previous year);
• must be first author of their presented study;
• must present a completed study (i.e., not merely preliminary data; candidates should be able to tell a ‘complete story’ with all data collection and analyses finished before the presentation date, but the study does not need to be published);
• must have their Gruber candidacy endorsed by their advisor (ideally) or another professional member of AES who will serve as a mentor/advocate;
• must not have competed for the Gruber Award more than once before, if an undergraduate or master’s student, or more than twice before, if a Ph.D. student (i.e., students can compete for the Gruber Award up to two times as an undergraduate student, up to two times as a master’s student, and up to three times as a Ph.D. student; these counts will start at the 2019 meeting in Snowbird, Utah);

***If students do not meet these criteria, they are still encouraged to present at the AES meeting, but not to compete for the Gruber Award.***

Please find guidelines and recommendations designed for students competing for the Gruber Award here.

Stoye Awards of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists recognize the best student oral presentation in the following categories. Submission for oral presentation will be reviewed based on the following emphases:

• General Ichthyology includes, but is not limited to, morphological and molecular systematics, techniques in systematics, zoogeography, paleontology, and faunal descriptions.
• General Herpetology includes, but is not limited to, morphological and molecular systematics, techniques in systematics, zoogeography, paleontology, and faunal descriptions.
• Genetics, Development, and Morphology includes, but is not limited to, population genetics, mitochondrial DNA analysis, comparative embryology, heterochrony, descriptive and experimental development, comparative and evolutionary morphology, functional morphology, and biomechanics.
• Ecology and Ethology includes, but is not limited to, population and community ecology, life history strategies, descriptive and experimental ethology, behavioral ecology, neuroethology, and ecomorphology.
• Physiology and Physiological Ecology includes, but is not limited to, comparative and experimental physiology, biochemistry, sensory and behavioral physiology, and endocrinology.
• Conservation includes, but is not limited to, conservation biology, conservation policy, management, and restoration.

Storer Awards of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists recognize the best student poster presentation in each of the following categories:

• Ichthyology
• Herpetology

To be eligible for either Stoye or Storer Awards, the student must:

• be the presenter and lead author (multi-authored presentations are allowed)
• be a member of ASIH
• indicate a desire to be considered when submitting an abstract (see instructions for Submitting Abstracts)
• meet the ASIH criteria for student:
  “An individual who at the time the paper is given is the equivalent of a full-time student (an individual who is devoting his or her major efforts to a formal program of study) or who has satisfactorily completed a thesis or dissertation defense during the past twelve months.”
• Physiology and Physiological Ecology includes, but is not limited to, comparative and experimental physiology, biochemistry, sensory and behavioral physiology, and endocrinology.
• Conservation includes, but is not limited to, conservation biology, conservation policy, management, and restoration.

Stoye and Storer presentations are judged by the following criteria:

• introduction
• methods
• data analysis and interpretation
• conclusions
• innovation, originality, and scientific significance
• presentation
• visual aids or graphic design

The rating scale is 0 to 10 points: excellent (9 to 10), very good (7 to 8), good (4 to 6), fair (2 to 3), poor (0 to 1).

Questions about the Stoye and Storer Awards should be directed to Kathleen Cole.

If you are a Master’s or Ph.D. student with research results, consider participating in the annual competition for The Herpetologists’ League Graduate Research Awards. To participate, you must:

• be a member of The Herpetologists’ League in good standing
• be either a registered graduate student or have completed your graduate degree requirements within 14 months of your presentation
• submit an abstract (of which you must be the senior author and have done the majority of the work) by the deadline for submission of abstracts to the Joint Meeting, indicating your desire to compete for the HL Graduate Research Award
• (NEW) submit a one-page lay summary of your work by March 11. Click here for Lay Summary (PDF).

All presenters will receive evaluations from the judges after the meeting. The top five presentations, as ranked by judges, will be announced at the Herpetologists’ League Business Meeting. Presenters of the second to fifth ranked presentations will receive $250 awards. The presenter of the best presentation as ranked by the judges will receive $750, ten years of back issues of Herpetologica, and an invitation to submit a manuscript based on the work presented to either Herpetologica or Herpetological Monographs. The Herpetologists’ League will commit to publishing this manuscript, following a successful peer-review and editorial revision, as a lead article identifying the author (or senior author) as the winner of the Herpetologists’ League Graduate Research Award.

For further information or questions concerning The Herpetologists’ League Graduate Research Award, please contact the following:

Cathy Bevier
Department of Biology
5742 Mayflower Hill
Colby College
Water
ville, ME 04901 USA
(207) 859-5742
email: crbevier@colby.edu

The Neotropical Ichthyological Association (NIA) will recognize the best student papers (1 oral presentation and 1 poster presentation) presented at the 2020 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists on a topic which in the opinion of the judges substantially includes the study of Neotropical fishes. To be eligible the student must be the first author and the presenter of the paper or poster. Multi-authored presentations are eligible.

To be eligible students must be registered in a degree program (graduate or undergraduate), or have received their degree no more than 15 months prior to the presentation, and indicate to the meeting organizers their intention to compete in compliance with the guidelines and deadlines set forth by the organizers of the JMIH meeting. Please indicate the appropriate category for which you are applying on the abstract submission form. For questions please contact Jonathan Armbruster.

The Henri Seibert Awards were initiated in 1992 to provide recognition for the best student papers presented at the annual meeting of the SSAR. These awards are named in honor of Henri C. Seibert, an early and tireless supporter of SSAR (having served as an officer for over 20 years) in recognition of outstanding presentations at the annual meeting.

To be eligible, the presented paper must be the result of research conducted by the individual making the presentation. The research must have been conducted while the student was enrolled in either an undergraduate or graduate degree program. Please refer to Herpetological Review 28(4):175 and the SSAR website for recommendations to students entering the Henri Seibert competition. Students entering the competition must be members of SSAR. The presentations will be judged by the SSAR student prize committee. One Henri Seibert Award of US $200 may be given in each of the following four categories:

• Systematics/Evolution
• Ecology
• Physiology/Morphology
• Conservation

The SSAR Victor Hutchison Student Poster Awards will provide recognition for the best graduate student posters presented at the annual meeting of the SSAR. To be eligible, the presented poster must be the result of research conducted by the individual making the presentation. The research must have been conducted while the student was enrolled in a graduate degree program. Students entering the competition must be members of SSAR. The presentations will be judged by the SSAR student prize committee. One SSAR Victor Hutchison Student Poster Award of U.S. $250 (plus a book gift from CRC Press) may be given in each of the following four categories:

• Evolution, Genetics, & Systematics
• Ecology, Natural History, Distribution, & Behavior
• Physiology & Morphology
• Conservation & Management

The SSAR Victor Hutchison Student Poster Award will be judged by the following criteria:

• Quality of Research
• Quality of the Visual Display of the Research
• Professionalism and Confidence of the Presenter

Students may win the award only one time. Please indicate the appropriate category for which you are applying on the abstract submission form. Contact Betsie Rothermel for further information.

Recognizing the outstanding poster delivered by an AES Student member during the Annual Meeting.

As a reminder to AES student members, please consider submitting a poster when you make your arrangements to attend the Annual Meeting. As a minimum requirement, at least three eligible students must declare their candidacy for this $150 award.

Established in 1999 as the AES Student Poster Award to recognize the outstanding poster delivered by an AES student member during the Annual Meeting, this award has since been generously endowed by Jeff and Carol Carrier. As a result, the award has been renamed to honor the Carriers, who have been longtime advocates of student participation in the Society.

Details can be found here.