Best Paper in Forestry Sponsored Sessions Award

2012 Awardee: Bistra Dilkina
Winning material: Cost-effective Conservation Planning for Improving Landscape Connectivity

Purpose of the Award

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Forestry Cluster sessions at the Fall Meeting. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation.

Past Awardees

2012 Awardee Bistra Dilkina
2009 Awardee Matthew Thompson, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
2008 Awardee Sandor Toth, University of Washington-Seattle
2006 Awardee Mikael Ronnqvist, Kurt Jornsten, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Maud Gothe, Linkoping University Mikael Frisk, Forest Research Institute of Sweden
2005 Awardee Stephanie Snyder, USDA Forest Service Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service James Miller, USDA Forest Service Adam Skibbe, USDA Forest Service
2004 Awardee Jeremy Fried, USDA Forest Service P. J. Daugherty, USDA Forest Service
2003 Awardee Not awarded
2002 Awardee Sonny George, Pennsylvania State School of Forest Resources
2001 Awardee Laurel Travis, Virginia Tech Michael Bevers, USDA Forest Service Curtis Flather, USDA Forest Service
2000 Awardee Mikael Ronnqvist, Linkoping Institute of Technology Jenny Karlsson, Linkoping Institute of Technology
1999 Awardee Marc McDill, Pennsylvania State University Janis Braze, Pennsylvania State University
1998 Awardee Susan L. King, USDA Forest Service
Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service
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