LTAR announced the winners of the 2024 Annual Awards at the Annual Science Meeting, held in May in Tucson, Arizona. Award winners were honored for their contributions to LTAR research and coordination, as well as for early career and long-term leadership accomplishments.
- The LTAR Early Career Award was awarded to Tayler Ulbrich (W.K. Kellogg Biological Station) for advancing and strengthening LTAR stakeholder engagement at the network- and site-level.
- The LTAR Support Scientist Award was presented to two LTAR scientists:
- Jeff Gonet (Upper Chesapeake Bay) for maintaining UCB eddy covariance and meteorological equipment, and working with LTAR, university, and AmeriFlux scientists and data managers to ensure quality and usefulness of eddy covariance datasets at site and Network scales.
- David Walla (Platte River – High Plains Aquifer) for his work on coordinating research within PR/HPA and his work on developing an automated greenhouse gas (GHG) flux chamber case to increase efficiency in collecting soil GHG data for LTAR.
- The LTAR Network Impact Award was awarded to David Hoover (Central Plains Experimental Range) for his key leadership role in developing and harmonizing science, data, and administrative workflows across the LTAR network.
- The LTAR Founder’s Award was presented to Justin Derner (Central Plains Experimental Range) for providing inspiration to the network in the design of the LTAR Common Experiment and leadership in building network capacity.
- Two stakeholders were awarded the LTAR Stakeholder Award:
- The Nature Conservancy for providing valuable, ongoing collaboration with the LTAR network, including a LTAR-TNC Science Workshop that laid the foundation of research themes for the partnership.
- The ABS-UF LTAR Advisory Council for their dedication to the co-production of LTAR science.
Early Career Award – Tayler Ulbrich
Founder’s Award on Behalf of Justin Derner
LTAR Stakeholder Award – ABS-UF LTAR Advisory
Network Impact Award – Dave Hoover
Support Scientist Award on Behalf of Jeff Gonet
Support Scientist Awards