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1997 SCB Awards

• Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award
• Distinguished Service Award Winners
• Student Award Winners

Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award

Barry Noon

Distinguished Service Award Winners

• The Amur River Program -- For efforts to conserve the natural character and rich biotic diversity of the Amur River basin
• Donald Worster -- For fundamental contributions to our understanding of conservation and environmental history
• Jack E. Williams -- For dedication and effective leadership in conserving North America's aquatic biota
• Robert Michael Pyle -- For efforts to promote the conservation of invertebrates and to develop public understanding of conservation issues
• Daniel Kemmis -- For efforts to define and demonstrate a new vision of community-based conservation in the American West
• Wild Earth -- For dedicated coverage of emerging issues and ideas in conservation biology

Student Award Winners

Oral Paper, First Place

A. Byun, B.F. Koop, and T. Reimchen

Centre for Environmental Health and Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Phylogeographic analysis of the Haida Gwaii black bear: implications for morphology and the Haida Gwaii refugium controversy

N.N. Winchester and R.A. Ring

Department of Biology, University of Victoria,

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Conservation of arthropod biodiversity: revaluation of the centinelan extinction concept

K.A. Forney

Southwest Fisheries Science Center, U.S. National

Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California

Interpreting trends in cetacean abundance: human caused changes vs natural variability

C.B. Schultz

Department of Zoology, University of Washington,

Seattle, Washington

Planting butterfly seeds: an experiment in restoring habitat for the Fender's blue butterfly

R.L. Bevill and S.M. Louda

School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska,

Lincoln, Nebraska

Effects of insect herbivores on juveniles of pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri), a threatened species

Christian Olivio

University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia

This award provides US$500 for the presentation of undergraduate research at the annual meeting of the SCB. The 1997 recipient, Christian Olivio, reported on Habitat use by the otter (Lutra longicaudis) in the biosphere reserve and indigenous territory Pilon Lajas. Funding was provided by the School for Field Studies. Thanks to the Undergraduate Award Committee: Susan Jacobson (Chair), Tom Fleishner, Steve Beissinger, and Ed Stashko.

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