Congratulations to the 2020 Student & Postdoc Research Award Winners
AOS is proud to recognize the students and postdoctoral researchers who are receiving funding through our 2020 Research Awards.
2020 Kessel Award Winners: Corey Tarwater, Ryan Germain, & Peter Arcese
The American Ornithological Society bestows the Brina C. Kessel Award every two years for a paper published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances.
Congratulations to 2020’s AOS Award Winners
Every year, the American Ornithological Society presents a range of awards honoring members for their research and volunteer work.
Congratulations to the 2020 Student Membership Award Winners!
These awards provide one year of free membership to students who have not previously been members of the society.
Finalists Announced for Inaugural Wesley Lanyon Award
The American Ornithological Society is pleased to announce that the following six early-career researchers have been invited to submit review papers to AOS journals as competitors for the Wesley Lanyon …
Announcing the AOS Kessel Research Fellowship Program
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is honored to announce that we are accepting applications for the new Kessel Research Fellowship Program.
Congratulations to the 2019 Student Presentation Award Winners
Every year, the American Ornithological Society bestows a range of Student Presentation Awards on students at all levels (undergraduate, masters, and doctoral) who present outstanding posters or oral presentations at the our annual …
Announcing the New Wesley Lanyon Award
The AOS Council is pleased to announce a new annual publication prize, the Wesley Lanyon Award. This new award will recognize the early-career ornithologist who authors the best synthesis/review paper on …
2019 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award Winners: Helen James & Craig Benkman
The William Brewster Memorial Award goes to the author or coauthors of an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere. Established in 1921, the award consists of a medal and an honorarium and is in honor of William Brewster, one of the founding members of the American Ornithologists’ Union. For the first time this year, AOS is awarding two separate Brewster Awards, one to Dr. Helen James and one to Dr. Craig Benkman.
2019 Elliott Coues Award Winners: Linda Whittingham & Peter Dunn
The Elliott Coues Award recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research, regardless of the geographic location of the work. The American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) established this award in honor of Elliott Coues, a pioneering ornithologist of the western United States and a founding member of the AOU. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium provided through the society’s Elliott Coues Achievement Award Fund. The 2018 Elliott Coues Award goes to Dr. Linda Whittingham and Dr. Peter Dunn.