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In order to help identify outstanding work by SSA student members, the SSA Board initiated the Student Presentation Award. The award will be given for an excellent poster presentation or talk at each Annual Meeting. The award may be given to 0-15% of the presenting students at the meeting, based upon an absolute standard of excellence and criteria developed by the Student Presentation Subcommittee of the Honors Committee. At the time of the presentation each award winner must be registered as a student and also must be a Student Member of SSA in good standing. All student presenters will be considered eligible for the award. Students, to help identify yourself as an eligible student presenter, be sure to check the relevant box on your abstract submission for the Annual Meeting. Questions may be directed to Tom Pratt, Chair of the Student Presentation Award Subcommittee <tpratt [at] ocean [dot] washington [dot] edu>.

2011 Student Award Winners

The 2011 SSA Student Presentation Awards were given based on evaluation by the Student Award subcommittee, made up of Laurie Baise (Tufts University), Michael Brudzinski (Miami University of Ohio), Ray Cakir (Washington State Department of Natural Resources), Martin Chapman (Virginia Tech), James Dewey (USGS Golden), Peggy Hellweg (University of California Berkeley), Steve Horton (The University of Memphis), Christine Powell (The University of Memphis), Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman (USGS Golden), and Thomas Pratt, chair (USGS Seattle), who on behalf of the committee extends thanks to the committee chairs who completed evaluation forms. From among a total of 65 student presentations evaluated at the 2011 SSA Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, the subcommittee chose the following eight for recognition: