Environmental Quality Research Award

Contact Name: 
ASA-CSSA-SSSA Member Services
Typical application deadline: 
March
Page last updated: 
01/25/2011
Contact Phone: 
608-273-8080
Application Deadline: 
March 22, 2011
Applicant Eligibility: 
Graduate
Masters
Ph.D.
Other
Applicant Eligibility Comments: 

Eligibility

  1. Nominators are required to be members of ASA.
  2. Nominees are not required to be members of ASA.
  3. Nominees must be living at the time of their nomination.
  4. Teams are eligible if the following qualifications are met:
    • At least one member of the team is an agronomist.
    • Where other disciplines are represented, the agronomist will be a major contributor (50% or more) to the team effort.
    • Only publications where all team members are authors or honors and awards received by the team will be listed. Individual efforts should be omitted.
Keywords: 
Agriculture
Air Quality
Ecological studies
Ecosystem
Natural Resource Management
Pollution
River
Systems Thinking/Complexity Science
Water/Aquatic
Amount: 
$1,000 and a certificate
Funding Abstract: 

This award is intended to recognize contributions that have enhanced the basic understanding of environmental sciences in relation to agriculture, or demonstrated sound and effective management practices for maintaining or improving the quality of soil, water, and air resources. Areas of research may include (a) the behavior and fate of pollutants in terrestrial and/or aquatic ecosystems and (b) stability of an ecosystem in response to disturbances resulting from the use of land for food and energy production and society's needs to dispose of and/or utilize waste products. Principal criteria to be used in the selection process are creativity and originality of the research and significance of the research and its contribution to the field of environmental quality.

Type of Funding: 
Award/Prize
Application Process and Required Materials: 

- Nominators are required to be members of ASA.

- Nominees are not required to be members of ASA.

Nominator Qualifications:

  1. Current Position Title
  2. Membership

 

Nominee Qualifications:

  1. Team Members
  2. Degrees Received
  3. Professional Positions Held
  4. Membership
  5. Honors and Awards
  6. Professional Contributions
  7. Professional Contributions for the Environmental Quality Research Award
  8. Evaluation

 

Add References To Nomination

- Provide contact information (name, full mailing address, phone, and email) for three individuals who will submit online reference letters.

Fund Usage: 
Award
Fields of Study: