American Society of Naturalists

A membership society whose goal is to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences.

Current Committees of the ASN

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GOVERNANCE & OUTREACH COMMITTEES

Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee is charged with finding candidates for upcoming vacancies on the executive council. The members serve three year terms.
Alison Bell (chair), David Hembry, Eric Svensson

Diversity Committee
Lily Khadempour (chair), Chris Moore (vice chair), Liz Carlen, Nikunj Goel, Dylan Padilla, Ravi Ranjan, María Rebolleda-Gómez (past chair), Catherine Sheard

Graduate Student Council to the Executive Council
Dylan Padilla (chair), Nikunj Goel, Christopher Robinson, Sajesh Vijayan, Xinyi Yan

Workshop and Regional Society Committee
Meredith Zettlemoyer (chair), Michael Bertram, Kyle Coblentz, Claudia Crowther

ASN Symposium Committee
Kerri Crawford (chair), Stephanie Porter, Christopher Searcy

Ethics Review Committee
Anurag Agrawal, Julia Saltz, Matt Walsh, and Maria Servedio (as past-past president)

AWARDS COMMITTEES

ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences
The committee of three members, each serving three years, selects the award winner. The list of possible awardees is developed in several ways, including nominations.
Emilie Snell-Rood (chair), Jen Lau, Ruth Shaw

ASN Distinguished Naturalist Award
The committee of three members, each serving three years, selects the award winner. The list of possible awardees is developed in several ways, including nominations.
Stuart West (chair), Trevor Price, Adam Siepielski

ASN Early Career Investigator Award
The committee of three to four members, each serving three years, selects four award winners from among the applications.
Martha Muñoz (chair), Jean-Philippe Gibert, Chris Moore, Jesse Weber

Student Research Award
The committee of three faculty-level researchers and three members of the Graduate Student Council selects the award winners from among the applications.
Sonal Singhal (chair), Ron Bassar, Cole Brookson (student member), Chris Carlson (student member), Jenn Coughlan, Hilary Dawson (student member), Rachel Page

American Naturalist Student Paper Award
The committee consists of the deciding editors who have worked on the papers in that calendar year.
Volker H. W. Rudolf (editor-in-chief), Erol Akçay, Jill T. Anderson, Sébastien Lion

Outstanding Student Poster Award Committee
All ASN student members presenting posters at the annual meeting or the stand-alone meeting are scheduled for a single session. A request for volunteers to judge the posters is made at registration for the meeting or soon after.
Jeremy Yoder (organizer)

ASN REPRESENTATIVES

To the SSE Education and Outreach Committee: Maria Orive

To the Joint Society Meeting Committee: Mark McPeek

To the Joint Society Code of Conduct Committee: Julie Lee-Yaw, Chris Martin

To the Joint Society Code of Ethics Committee: Butch Brodie, Becky Fuller, Nancy Chen

To the IDEA Award Committee: Vincent Formica

To the Joint Society Public Policy Committee: Mark Urban