Society Annual Awards

Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award

Distinguished Service Awards

The Society for Conservation Biology presents up to five awards for distinguished service in the field of conservation biology to outstanding individuals, groups, or institutions whose work has furthered the mission of the SCB. The Awards Committee is soliciting nominations from SCB members for these awards, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the SCB.

To nominate an individual or institution for an award, a nomination packet, to include a minimum of two supporting letters, must be received by 10 October of the year before the award year. The nomination form (available here) should be sent electronically to saterson.kathryn@epa.gov. Letters of support and the nomination form must be submitted as one document in Word format. Letters of support sent separately from the nomination form will not be accepted. All communications should be via email to the extent possible. In the event that electronic access is unavailable to the nominator, s/he should contact:

Kathryn A. Saterson, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Ecosystem Protection and Water Quality Programs
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
109 TW Alexander Drive, MC: B305-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
phone: 919-541-2535
fax: 919-541-1440
saterson.kathryn@epa.gov

NOTE: Nominations must be received by 10 October of the year preceding the award year. This October 10 deadline will be the annual deadline for award nominations, regardless of the date of the annual meeting.

SCB Distinguished Service & Laroe Award Recipients

2007 JC Daniel Rodolfo Dirzo Malcolm Hunter Kathryn MacKinnon Nature Kenya La Roe Award: Jeremy Jackson 2006 Javier Simonetti Dee Boersma Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro Mark Burgman Nature Conservation Foundation La Roe Award: Stuart Pimm 2005 Binod Chandra Choudhury Maria Elena Ibarra Richard Cowling David Ferguson Tropical Biology Association La Roe Award: Daniel Pauly 2004 Gerardo Ceballos Gonzalez Bittu Sahgal A.J.T. Johnsingh International Crane Foundation La Roe Award: Jerry Franklin 2003 Jane Lubchenco The Aldo Leopold Foundation Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo Sarath Kotagama Michael Dombeck LaRoe Award: Stephen Schneider 2002 Georgina M. Mace The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands Márcio Ayres David Attenborough Phoebe Barnard Anil Agarwal LaRoe Award: John Lawton 2001 The Patrol Guards of the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature Eugene P. Odum José Sarukhán Kermez David S. Wilcove Biodiversity Legal Foundation Gary Larson LaRoe Award: Robert Pressey 2000 The 5200 Contributors to the Loomis Forest John J. Craighead Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Hamid Bugo Peter H. Raven Robert Goodland Gary Paul Nabhan LaRoe Award: Edwin Philip Pister

1999 Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas (IPE), Brazil John L. Craig N. Thompson Hobbs Lorena Calvo M. Administrative Management and Design (ADMADE) Program, Zambia Peter Matthiessen LaRoe Award: Chandler Robbins 1998 Palau Conservation Society Sir Otto Frankel Denis Saunders George Rabb Andy Robinson Kathleen Blanchard/Quebec-Labrador Foundation Graeme Caughley (Special award - posthumous) LaRoe Award: J. Michael Scott 1997 Amur River Project Donald Worster Jack Williams Robert Michael Pyle Daniel Kemmis Wild Earth LaRoe Award: Barry Noon 1996 Malpai Borderlands Group Gordon Orians James Williams William Conway Ken Saro-wiwa (posthumous) Elizabeth Donnelly/Journey North Project LaRoe Award: Katherine Ralls 1995 Herman Daly Larry Harris Daniel Janzen Mardy Murie High Country News Jim Nelson Wildlife Conservation Society LaRoe Award: Reed Noss 1994 Exequiel Ezcurra Hugh Iltis Toshio Kasuya Robert Repetto José Sarhukan Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad Albert Gore 1993 The Nature Conservancy David Ehrenfeld Michael Soule Robert E. Jenkins Jeff DeBonis J. Michael Scott

1992 The Wildlife Society Stephen H. Hubbell Henry F. Howe Lorraine Mintzmyer Robert Costanza Island Press 1991 Bat Conservation International Jack Ward Thomas Sara Vickerman Roger Lewin Theodore Panayatou Victor Sheffer E.O. Wilson Joe Hickey (special award) 1990 Alwyn Gentry Phil Pister Steve Kellert Paulo Nogueira Neto 1989 David Western John Terborgh Stan Temple Noel Snyder John Krutilla 1988 Ray Dasmann Michael Bean Devra Kleiman Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust Inter-Agency Grizzly Bear Team 1987 (first year) Norman Myers Paul Ehrlich Michael Lannarty New York Zoological Society