Description
The Student Presentation Award is awarded each year for a presentation given at the annual meeting of the AKES to one student member based on the criteria below. Beginning in 2020, the Student Poster Award is awarded each year for a poster presented at the annual meeting to one student member based on the same criteria. (From 2010-2018 the award amount was $50, increased to $100 beginning in 2019.)
- Presentation quality
- Scientific quality
- Depth of knowledge as demonstrated by answering audience questions
Award Recipients
2024
Presentation: Luke Lawson – An unusual grasshopper outbreak in Wood River, Alaska: A relic population of the presumed extinct Rocky Mountain Locust, Melanoplus spretus?
2023
Presentation: Robin Andrews – Chasing 13C labeled recent photosynthate through belowground soil fauna food webs and finding it almost everywhere
2022
Presentation: Taylor Kane – Searching for Boreus in Wrangell-St. Elias
2021
Presentation: Taylor Kane – A taxonomic review of Alaskan snow scorpionflies
Poster: Robin Andrews – Soil microarthropods tell tales that vegetation hides
2020
Presentation: Asia Sampson – A preliminary forensic entomology study in Interior Alaska, USA
Poster: Adam Haberski – Beetle, spider, and bumblebee communities differ across an elevational gradient in Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska
2019
Robin Andrews – Microarthropod abundance and community structure along a successional chronosequence within the Tanana River floodplain
2018
Alexandria Wenninger – Predatory hymenopteran assemblages in boreal Alaska: associations with forest composition and postfire succession
2017
Kathryn Daly – Lepidoptera highlights of 2016 at UAM (audio)
2016
Molly McDermott – Response of arthropod communities to shrub expansion in Western Alaska (audio)
2015
Alexandria Wenninger – Hymenoptera assemblages in aspen-dominated and black spruce-dominated post-fire successional trajectories in boreal black spruce forest of interior Alaska
2014
Logan Mullen – Proposed research: A taxonomic revision of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) (audio)
2013
Casey Bickford – Systematics of Alaskan Aegialites Beetles: Extremely Endemic or Oversplit?
2012
Jonny Newman – Causes and consequences of variation in extrafloral nectar secretion by quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx)
2011
Brandi Fleshman – Influence of field age on the ground spider community in managed grasslands, Delta Junction, Alaska
Jill Stockbridge – Effects of different logging practices on the beetles and spiders on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (second place)
2010
Brent Mortensen – Scales of predator mediated defense against an aspen (Populus tremuloides) specialist