The Anne Keymer Prize
The prize is named in the memory of Anne Keymer and awarded for the best oral presentation by a postgraduate student at the BES Annual Meeting. Anne herself was one of the first winners of this previously unnamed prize, in 1981. She went on to a career of great distinction, before dying of cancer in 1993, at the age of 36. Anne was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Animal Ecology, and more generally was an exemplary scholar, teacher and citizen of her discipline. In naming this prize after Anne, the BES is recognising a younger ecologist who embodied, to a remarkable degree, the qualities and values we stand for.
Those eligible to enter must present a paper at the BES Annual Meeting and should normally be a current graduate student, or one who has recently graduated and is presenting work that was completed when they were still a student. Competition for the prize is fierce. A panel of judges chooses the winner and the prize is an honorarium of £250. There are two runner up prizes of £100 each. View prize judging criteria [Adobe PDF, 12 Kb].
2012 Award winner:
Hanna Granroth-Wilding – Granroth-Wilding, H. (Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh), Burthe, S. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Lewis, S. (Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh), Daunt, F. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Cunningham, E. (Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh) – Parasites of nestling seabirds affect siblings unequally
2012 Runner up prize winners:
Eimear Rooney – Rooney, E. (Queen’s University Belfast), Reid, N. (Quercus), Lundy, M.G. (Quercus), Kunc, H.P. (Queen’s University Belfast), Montgomery, W. I. (Queen’s University Belfast) – Supplementary feeding demonstrates temporal heterogeneity in the importance of food on reproductive success
Phillip J Blaen – Blaen, P. (University of Birmingham), Milner, A. M. (University of Birmingham), Hannah, D. M. (University of Birmingham), Brown, L. E. (University of Leeds) – Drivers of nutrient uptake in High Arctic rivers (Svalbard) under a changing climate
2011 Award winner:
Sunitha Pangala – Pangala, S.R., Gauci, V. (The Open University) Hornibrook, E.R. (University of Bristol) Gowing, D.J. (The Open University) - Methane Emissions from Tropical Wetland Trees
2011 Runner up prize winners:
Sophie Fauset – Fauset, S., Baker, T.M., Lewis, S.L., Feldpaush, T.R., (University of Leeds) Affum-Baffoe, K., (Ghana Forestry Commission) Swaine, M.D. (University of Aberdeen) Does Long Term Drought Affect the Floristic and Functional Composition of Tropical Forests in Ghana, West Africa?
Chris Sutherland – Sutherland, C.S. (University of Aberdeen) Elston, D. (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland) Bierman, S. (Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies) Lambin, X., (University of Aberdeen) – Processes at Multiple Scales affect Extinction and Colonisation in a Water Vole Metapopulation
2010 Award winner:
Thomas Crowther – Crowther, T.W., Jones, T.H., Boddy, L. (University of Cardiff, UK) – Fungus-invertebrate interactions determine mycelial distribution and wood decay rates.
2010 Runner up prize winners:
Sharon Zytynska- Zytynska, S.E. Presziosi, R.F. (University of Manchester, UK) – Aphic Choice behaviour is influenced by host plant genotype and intraspecific competition among aphid genotypes.
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher – Yvon-Drocher, G.1, Montoya, J.M2, Trimmer, M.1, Woodward, G.1 (1 Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2 Marine Sciences Institute, Barcelona) – Warming alters the size spectrum and the distribution of biomass in aquatic ecosystems
2009 Award winner:
Ailsa Mclean -Mclean, A.H.C.1, Van Asch, M.1, Godfray, H.C.J.1, Ferrari, J.2 (1 University of Oxford, UK, 2 University of York) – Fitness influences of facultative symbionts in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
2009 Runner up prize winners:
Dr. Mary Oconnor – O’Conor, M.I.1, Piehler, M.P.2, Leech,D. M.3, Anton, A.4, Bruno, J.F.4 (1 National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), US, 2 Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC, US, 3 DePauw University, US, 4 University of North Carolina, US) - Implications of metabolic temperature scaling for marine food web structures
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher – Yvon-Drocher, G., Montoya, J., Trimmer, M., Woodward, G. (Queen Mary University of London, UK) – Methane and NPP: a New Positive Feedback, between Global Warming and the Carbon Cycle