American Society of Naturalists

Looking to lower housing costs for Asilomar? The ASN graduate council has put together a form to help you find shared housing at the conference!

The American Society of Naturalists Graduate Council invites applications for three new graduate student representatives to join us this year. Members of the GC serve three-year terms and are responsible for representing the needs and interests of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to the executive council of the ASN.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 IDEA Award, Diversity of Nature and its co-founders Melanie Massey and Suchinta Arif!

Honorees for the ASN Outstanding Student Poster Award, June 2022: Jay Gallagher with Carla Bautista and Kaede Hirabayashi

Have an idea for a special symposium at the ASN stand-alone meeting in January 2023? We want to hear it! Proposals are due July 15, 2022 ⏳

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Naturalist Award, Tad Fukami!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2022 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, Laurent Keller

The recipient of the 2022 Student Paper Award is Paul Bendiks Walberg of Rutgers University for his paper “Warming Rates Alter Sequence of Disassembly in Experimental Communities” (with Edwin Green)

ASN seeks proposals from Regional Meetings in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior for meeting support, especially to support attendance of ASN members at the meetings.

The Presidential Award is chosen by the President of the American Society of Naturalists from all of the papers published in The American Naturalist during the preceding calendar year. The recipients of the award for 2022 are Jessica Clark, Luke McNally, and Tom Little, for their 2021 article “Pathogen Dynamics Across the Diversity of Aging”