The Hynes Award for New Investigators is awarded by the Society for Freshwater Science and recognizes an excellent academic research paper in the freshwater sciences by a scientist less than five years after their terminal graduate degree (usually, a doctorate). Recipients of the award have gone on to become leading senior researchers, serving as science advisors to various governments and states, and held leadership positions in national and international scientific societies.
The award is named after H.B. Noel Hynes, a British biologist who worked at the University of Liverpool and the University of Waterloo, where he was a world-leading expert on freshwater invertebrates and ecology.
Recipients +Award YearRecipientPaper TitleCo-authorsPaper Publication YearJournal2021Rafael M. Almeida"Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with strategic dam planning"Qinru Shi, Jonathan M. Gomes-Selman, Xiaojian Wu, Yexiang Xue, Hector Angarita, Nathan Barros, Bruce R. Forsberg, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Stephen K. Hamilton, John M. Melack, Mariana Montoya, Guillaume Perez, Suresh A. Sethi, Carla P. Gomes, Alexander S. Flecker2019Nature Communications2020Amanda L. Subalusky"Annual mass drownings of the Serengeti wildebeest migration influence nutrient cycling and storage in the Mara River"Christopher L. Dutton, Emma J. Rosi, David M. Post2017Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019Daniel Nelson"Experimental whole‐stream warming alters community size structure"Jonathan P. Benstead, Alexander D. Huryn, Wyatt F. Cross, James M. Hood, Philip W. Johnson, James R. Junker, Gísli M. Gíslason, Jón S. Ólafsson2017Global Change Biology2018Amanda G. DelVecchia"Ancient and methane-derived carbon subsidizes contemporary food webs"Jack A. Stanford, Xiaomei Xu2016Nature Communications2016Erin R. Hotchkiss"Whole‐stream 13C tracer addition reveals distinct fates of newly fixed carbon"Robert O. Hall Jr.2015Ecology2015Carla L. Atkinson"Tracing Consumer-Derived Nitrogen in Riverine Food Webs"Jeffrey F. Kelly, Caryn C. Vaughn2014Ecosystems2014Daniel C. Allen"Bottom-up biodiversity effects increase resource subsidy flux between ecosystems"Caryn C. Vaughn, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Joshua T. Cooper, Michael H. Engel2012Ecology2013Michael T. Bogan"Severe drought drives novel community trajectories in desert stream pools"David A. Lytle2011Freshwater Biology2012Ronald D. Bassar"Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes"Michael C. Marshall, Andrés López-Sepulcre, Eugenia Zandonà, Sonya K. Auer, Joseph Travis, Catherine M. Pringle, Alexander S. Flecker, Steven A. Thomas, Douglas F. Fraser, David N. Reznick2010Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011Debra S. Finn"Demographic Stability Metrics for Conservation Prioritization of Isolated Populations"Michael T. Bogan, David A. Lytle2009Conservation Biology2010John M. Davis"Long-term nutrient enrichment decouples predator and prey production"Amy D. Rosemond, Susan L. Eggert, Wyatt F. Cross, J. Bruce Wallace2010Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009Brian J. Roberts"Multiple Scales of Temporal Variability in Ecosystem Metabolism Rates: Results from 2 Years of Continuous Monitoring in a Forested Headwater Stream"Patrick J. Mulholland, Walter R. Hill2007Ecosystems2008Peter B. McIntyre"Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters"Laura E. Jones, Alexander S. Flecker, Michael J. Vanni2007Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2007Brad W. Taylor"Loss of a Harvested Fish Species Disrupts Carbon Flow in a Diverse Tropical River"Alexander S. Flecker, Robert O. Hall Jr.2006Science2006Jack Brookshire"Coupled cycling of dissolved organic nitrogen and carbon in a forest stream"H. Maurice Valett, Steven A. Thomas, Jackson R. Webster2005Ecology2005Colden V. Baxter"Fish invasion restructures stream and forest food webs by interrupting reciprocal prey subsidies"Kurt D. Fausch, Masashi Murakami, Phillip L. Chapman2004Ecology2004Emily S. Bernhardt"Dissolved Organic Carbon Enrichment Alters Nitrogen Dynamics in a Forest Stream"Gene E. Likens2002Ecology2003Bradley J. Cardinale"Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation"Margaret A. Palmer, Scott L. Collins2002Nature2002David A. Lytle"Flash floods and aquatic insect life-history evolution: evaluation of multiple models"2002Ecology2001Michelle A. Baker"Organic Carbon Supply and Metabolism in a Shallow Groundwater Ecosystem"H. Maurice Valett, Clifford N. Dahm2000Ecology2000Robert O. Hall Jr."The trophic significance of bacteria in a detritus‐based stream food web"Judith L. Meyer1998Ecology
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