Awards
Plant Population Ecology Student Travel/Registration Awards
In 2025, the ESA Plant Population Ecology section plans to again provide travel awards to graduate student members of the section to attend the 2025 annual meeting in person. Awards are typically $200-$400.
Check back in February 2025 for details on this year’s competition.
Past Student Travel Award recipients
| 2024 | Cole Doolittle, Nadejda Sero, Madeleine Wallace |
| 2023 | Tianna Barber-Cross, Cole Doolittle, Julia Kachanova, Nadejda Sero, Taylor Zallek |
| 2022 | Lina Aragón, Joshua Fowler, Emily Holden, Jacob Moutouama, Jack Sytsma, Takuji Usui |
| 2021 | Lina Aragón, Danielle De La Pascua, Alejandra Martínez-Blancas, Jacob Moutouama, Zhe Ren, and Verónica Zepeda |
| 2020 | Sade Perez Partridge, Alejandra Martínez-Blancas, Verónica Zepeda |
| 2019 | Meredith Zettlemoyer, Marcel Vaz, Gaurav Kandlikar, Sarah Johnson, Laura Bogar, Tsung Fung Au |
| 2018 | Charlotte Brown, Rebecca Dalton, Julie Davis, Anna Farrell, Gaurav Kandlikar, Josh Scholl, Soren Struckman |
| 2017 | Aubrie James, Joshua Lynn, Callie Oldfield, Nikki Forrester |
| 2016 | Janelle Eck, Marion Holmes, Shivani Jadeja, Melanie Kazenel, Deirdre Loughnan, Sarah Richman, Matthew Tye |
| 2015 | Charlotte C. Trowbridge, Laura Doubleday, Jessica Kettenbach, Gabriella L. Pardee, Jay W. Wason III, Kimberley Taylor, Y. Anny Chung |
| 2014 | Zak Gezon, Jeremy Johnson, Brittany West Marsden, Nana Zhang |
| 2013 | Kelsey Yule, Megan Sebasky, Miranda Redmond, Will Petry, Kane Keller, Jessica Pratt |
| 2012 | Kristin Powell, Juan Alvarez-Yepiz, Will Petry, Matthew Kaproth, Anny Yan-Yi Chung, Bennett |
| 2011 | Christopher Bowman-Prideaux, Scott Chamberlain, Aldo Compagnoni, Kimberly Kellett, Abigail Kula, Sean Michaletz, Ian Pfingsten, Rob Strahan |
| 2010 | Aaron David; other awardee(s) unknown |
| 2009 | Two awards; awardees unknown |
| 2008 | Katherine Gerst |
| 2007 | Kristen Hladun |
| 2006 | Melanie Barnes, Erika Hersch, Kristen Hladun, Abigail Kula, Somereet Nijjer |
| 2005 | Kristin Anton, Richard Lankau, Lori Spindler |
| 2004 | Amy Blair, Beth Lawrence |
Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology
The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) hopes to offer the Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology again in 2025. Check back in March 2025 for details.
This award has been sponsored by the journal AoB PLANTS, and recognizes a distinguished journal contribution to plant population ecology within the past three years by a postdoctoral member of the PPE section.
Established in 2010 and published by Oxford University Press, AoB PLANTS 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 2019 Impact Factor score of 2.18.
Past Postdoctoral Excellence Award recipients
| 2024 | Jacob K. Moutouama, for the paper “Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant“ |
| 2023 | Gregor Siegmund, for the paper “Statistical inference for seed mortality and germination with seed bank experiments“ |
| 2022 | Eric Scott, for the paper “Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments“ |
| 2021 | Aubrie James, for the paper “Species-specific variation in germination rates contributes to spatial coexistence more than adult plant water use in four closely related annual flowering plants“ |
| 2020 | Po-Ju Ke |
| 2019 | Susana Wadgymar |
| 2018 | Robert Shriver |
| 2017 | William Petry |
| 2016 | Jenni McDonald |
| 2015 | Eugenio Larios |
| 2014 | Jennifer Gremer |
| 2013 | Rupesh Kariyat; Roberto Salguero-Gomez (Honorable Mention) |
| 2012 | Jennifer Williams |