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George Mercer Award
The George Mercer Award is award is given annually to a young author or authors in recognition of a single outstanding paper in ecology published in English in a scientific or technical journal during the previous two years. Young means that the senior author must be 40 years old or less when the paper was published.
Nominations for this award should include a letter of nomination with full citation, an electronic copy of the publication, one required letter of support, and no more than two additional letters of support. The letter of nomination and letters of support should be no longer than two pages. The paper must have been published, which is when it’s first put on the journal’s website as an accepted paper, in 2023 or 2024 to be eligible for this year’s award.