Student Presentation Awards

2009 Presentation Award winners: G. A. Bravo, M. C. Stoddard, M. W. Tingley

Students presenting a poster or oral paper at an AOU meeting may apply to be considered for a student presentation award. Four awards will be given, including an award (the Robert B. Berry Student Award) for the most outstanding presentation on research pertaining to avian conservation. In addition, there will be a separate competition for best research poster, and undergraduate students (including recent graduates who have not started a graduate program) are encouraged to participate.

To be eligible, applicants must be:

1. Sole author or joint author of a poster or oral paper presented by the student at the meeting.
2. A full-time student. Students graduating the semester prior to the meeting are also eligible for either award.
3. A member of the AOU at the time of registration. Students who are not currently members are encouraged to become members, and thereby become eligible for student awards, before registering for the meeting. Students may also be eligible for AOU Student Membership Awards.

Awards will be made based on quality of both research and presentation, and preference will be given to students presenting a substantial body of work rather than early progress reports. Presentation Awards have a limit of once per lifetime.

Deadline for applications for Presentation Awards for the 2011 AOU meeting: TBA

2009 Winners, 127th Stated Meeting, Philadelphia

• Morgan Tingley (University of California, Berkeley, “Birds track their Grinnellian niche in response to a century 1 of climate change”) - AOU Student Conservation Award
• Mary Caswell Stoddard (University of Cambridge, “Host egg pattern mimicry by the Common Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus: objective methods based on avian visual perception”) - AOU Nellie Johnson Baroody Award
• Gustavo A. Bravo (Louisiana State University, “Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic divergence in the antbirds”) - AOU Council Award
• Jason Keagy (University of Maryland, “Male general cognitive ability influences male mating success in the Satin Bowerbird”) - AOU Council Award