2010 Award Nominations
Oregon AFS Award Nomination Form
Professional awards — seeking nominees!
It is fall and you are knee-deep in ice-water. As your mind goes numb, your thoughts wander to last February’s Oregon Chapter AFS Annual Meeting and the people you wish you had nominated for an award. It’s not too late — you can now nominate them for NEXT YEAR!
You know who these people are...the peer, the mentor, the teacher, the partner from another agency, the private landowner who worked so hard to do that great habitat work...the one who made your whole project come together...or who inspired you to go back to graduate school. Now is a great time to start putting your thoughts on paper so you will have plenty of time to refine your 2010 nomination before the award nomination deadline of January 8, 2010.
For all awards except Broken Oar, you should indicate how the nominee’s efforts are above and beyond their regular job. All awards are discretionary, none are required to be given each year. All awards are limited to one recipient per year, except for Awards of Merit where multiple recipients may be rewarded within a year.
Fishery Worker of the Year
This is the Chapter’s most prestigious individual award. Nominees
must be AFS members in good standing who are responsible for substantial single
or sustained accomplishments above and beyond their regular job. Nominations
should indicate how efforts are related to the goals of guiding and influencing
sound resource practices.
Fishery Team of the Year
This award represents recognition that there are outstanding teams that merit
acknowledgement for excellent work beyond an Award of Merit. The stringent award
criteria are similar to the Fishery Worker of the Year, but for team efforts.
This award recognizes the collaborative efforts to understand and manage
fisheries resources, and that these efforts frequently cross geographic,
disciplinary and socioeconomic boundaries.
At least one nominee of the team must be an AFS member in good standing. The team or group must have been responsible for substantial single or sustained accomplishments. Each member of the team nominated must have produced a substantial portion of the work. Nominations should indicate how they are related to the goals of guiding or influencing sound resource practices. To demonstrate equivalent contributions, describe substantive contributions of each member of the team.
Award of Merit
This award recognizes individuals, groups,
or organizations that have made special contributions to fisheries. Recipients
do not need to be AFS members.
Bill Wingfield Memorial Award in Fish Culture
Nominees should be individuals or groups that have contributed
significantly to advancing fish culture (including fish health) in Oregon. AFS
members or non-members may be nominated.
Broken Oar Award
Everyone’s favorite and just for fun, the Broken Oar Award is presented for
“outstanding display of field technique and coordination.” No doubt you already
have some nominees in mind from this year’s field season! AFS members or
non-members may be nominated.
Full description of awards criteria and suggestions about how to write nominations will be posted to the Oregon AFS Chapter website www.orafs.org, or can be obtained by contacting the Awards Chair, Mindy Simmons, 503-808-4766, mindy.m.simmons@usace.army.mil
DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS: January 23, 2010