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.
Jay Stachowicz (chair), Alison Bell, David Hembry

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

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

Workshop and Regional Society Committee
Michael Bertram (chair), Claudia Crowther, Chris Robinson (student member), Sajesh Vijayan (student member), Meredith Zettlemoyer

Ethics Review Committee
Anurag Agrawal, Julia Saltz, Matt Walsh, and Judith L. Bronstein (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.
Ruth Shaw (chair), Jen Lau, Emilie Snell-Rood

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.
Toby Kiers (chair), Adam Siepielski, Stuart West

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

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.
Casey terHorst (chair), Nikunj Goel (student member), Chelsea Little, Sarah McPeek (student member), Sonal Singhal, Xinyi Yan (student member)

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

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: Sam Scheiner

To the Joint Society Meeting Committee: Mark McPeek

To the Joint Society Code of Conduct Committee:

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: Katy Heath