• ABOUT
  • What is IAVS
  • IAVS News
  • IAVS History
  • Contact IAVS
• MEMBERSHIP
  • Member Benefits
  • Membership Statistics
  • Join/Renew
  • Member Directory
• PARTICIPATE
  • Join a group
  • Communicate
  • Attend Meetings
  • Give to the IAVS
  • Financial Support
• MEETINGS
  • Future meetings
  • Past meetings
  • Other meetings
  • Meeting guidelines
• PUBLICATIONS
  • IAVS Bulletin
  • Journal Veg Science
  • Applied Veg Science
  • Resolutions
• AWARDS
  • Honorary Members
  • Oral Presentation Award
  • Poster Award
  • Editor's Award
• GOVERNANCE
  • Officers
  • Council
  • Assembly
  • Committees
  • Statutes
  • Bylaws
• JOBS
• RESOURCES
  • Classification
  • Analytical tools
  • Databases
  • Education

Awards

IAVS seeks to recognize scientists who have made or are making outstanding contributions to vegetation science through research, scholarship, or service. Toward this end we maintain several award programs.

1. Honorary Member Award. Honorary membership is the highest award the Association can bestow on an individual scientist and is given to recognize a senior vegetation scientist for an outstanding body of work or for sustained contributions of extraordinary merit.

2. Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award. Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist who has made the most outstanding oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Association. Starting with the 2008 competition, the winner is awarded 1500€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meeting of the Association.

3. Young Scientist Poster Award. Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist who has presented the most outstanding poster at the annual meeting of the Association. Starting with the 2008 competition, the winner is awarded 1500€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meeting of the Association.

4. Editor's Award. In 2001 it was decided to initiate an Editors' Award for outstanding papers, or as the Editors-in-Chief put it: " Occassionally ... we see a paper that is ground-breaking, that introduces a new approach, that debunks an old myth, or that just does everything very well." They further wrote: "The choice of paper will sometimes be difficult.  We shall hope we do not offend those who wrote excellent papers that did not catch our eye.  The intention is to give one example of the kinds of paper that the Editors especially welcome.

Grants. IAVS is sometimes able to award travel grants to encourage participation in the annual meeting.