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Henri Seibert Awards |
The Henri Seibert Award was initiated in 1992 to provide
recognition for the best student papers given at the annual meeting of
the SSAR. These awards are named in honor of Henri C. Seibert, an early
and tireless supporter of SSAR (having served as an officer for over 20
years) in recognition of outstanding student presentations at the annual
meeting.
To be eligible, the presented paper must be the result of research
conducted by the presenter. The research must have been done while the
student was in either an undergraduate or graduate degree program. The
presentations will be judged by the SSAR student prize committee. One
Seibert Prize of US $200 may be given in each of the following four
categories:
- Conservation
- Ecology
- Evolution/Systematics
- Physiology/Morphology
For recommendations to students entering the Henri Seibert competition,
please see the links immediately below:
Henri Seibert
recommendations documentation in Adobe pdf format - click
here
Henri Seibert recommendations documentation in MS Word or rich
text format - click
here
Students entering
the competition must be members of SSAR. Students can win the Henri Seibert
competition only once. Please indicate the category to which you are submitting
your abstract on the abstract form in the Call for Papers.
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Henri Seibert Awards for 2007 |
HENRI SEIBERT AWARD COMMITTEE
Lora L. Smith and Margaret Gunzburger, Co-Chairs
The sixteenth annual Seibert Awards were presented at the 50th Annual
Meeting of the SSAR in St. Louis, Missouri July 12-17, 2007. These awards
are named in honor of Henri C. Seibert, an early and tireless supporter
of SSAR, serving as an officer for over 20 years. In recognition of
outstanding student presentations at the annual meeting, a single award
is given in each of four categories: Morphology & Physiology (4
presentations), Evolution & Systematics (11 presentations), Ecology
(16 presentations), and Conservation (12 presentations). All winners
will receive a check for US $200 from SSAR and a book from University
of California Press compliments of Chuck Crumly.
The Seibert Award Winners for 2007 were:
Morphology & Physiology: Sean Graham (co-authors
Ryan Early and Matthew Grober), Georgia State University, “Plasma
corticosterone variation in free-ranging male cottonmouths (Agkistrodon
piscivorus): diel, seasonal, and captive handling effects, and
interactions with plasma testosterone”.
Evolution & Systematics: D. Luke Mahler, Harvard
University, “Does ecology influence rates of phenotypic variation
in island anoles?” Honorable Mention: Matthew Gifford (co-author
Allan Larson), Washington University, “A multi-locus assessment
of the phylogeography of Ameiva chrysolaema from Hispaniola.
Honorable Mention: Michael Westphal, Oregon State University, “What
can garter snakes tell us about coral snake mimicry?”
Ecology: Amanda Subalusky (co-authors Lora L. Smith
and Lee Fitzgerald), Texas A&M University, “Ontogenetic shifts
in habitat use in the American alligator: another case for the importance
of seasonal wetlands”.
Honorable Mention: Mizuki Takahashi (co-author Matthew Parris), University
of Memphis, “A test of reproductive isolation between the subspecies
of Notophthalmus viridescens”.
Honorable Mention: Shannon K. Hoss (co-authors Lora L. Smith, Gordon
Schuett, Craig Guyer), Auburn University, “Home range and multi-scale
habitat associations of the eastern diamondbacked rattlesnake (Crotalus
adamanteus) in southwest Georgia.
Conservation: Ronald Sutherland, Duke University, “Presence
only models for rare North Carolina snake species confirmed with unbiased
road-cruising data”.
The judges for 2007 were Patrick Owen (Ohio State University, Lima,
OH), Robert Reed (USGS, Ft. Collins, CO), Kevin G. Smith (Washington
State University in St. Louis), Robert Espinoza (California State University,
Northridge), Chris Austin (Louisiana State University), Frank Burbrink
(College of Staten Island/CUNY), Mike Adams (USGS, Corvallis, OR), Michael
Dreslik (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), James Vonesh (Virginia
Commonwealth University), Brad Shaffer (University of California at
Davis), Lora Smith (Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, GA).
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