The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles (in the areas of energy and forestry) published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. For the 2011 awards, only articles that were published during the calendar year 2009 can be nominated. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the research areas of Forestry and Energy. Therefore, separate awards will be given in each area, and membership during the year of the nomination will be a requirement for the nominator. Membership for the nominee will not be a requirement. The award will be presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting of 2011. Nominations will be received until April 30, 2011. Nominated publications will be judged by three ENRE members in each area (three from Forestry and three from Energy) with respect to impact and originality. The award will consist of a plaque.

The nomination process consists of sending of a nomination package containing:

• A nomination form that will include information on the nominator, nominee, full reference of the article, and the area of nomination: Energy or Forestry
• A copy of the article written in English

There are two ways of nominating an article for an award.

• Self-nomination: One of the authors, who should be a member of the ENRE subdivision at the year of the nomination, may nominate his/her published article. It is acceptable that the work has been published with other authors who are not member of ENRE.
• Work nominated by others: A member of the ENRE subdivision, at the year of the nomination, may nominate an article for an award. In this case, authors need not be members of ENRE.

Consistent with the INFORMS conflict of interest policy, papers written by INFORMS ENRE officers or the competition judges, or by their students will not be considered.

The deadline for nomination for papers published during 2009 is April 30th, 2011.

For Energy publications please submit your nomination in electronic format to:

Please submit your nomination in electronic format to:

Professor Shmuel S. Oren
E-MAIL: oren@ieor.berkeley.edu
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California at Berkeley
Etcheverry Hall 4119
Berkeley, CA 94720-1777
Tel: (510) 642-1836 or 5484
Fax: (510) 642-1403

For Forestry publications please submit your nomination in electronic format to:

Professor Andres Weintraub
E-MAIL: aweintra@dii.uchile.cl
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Chile
República 701
Santiago, Chile
Tel: +56 (2) 678-4046
Fax: +56 (2) 689-7895