American Society of Naturalists

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 ASN Early Career Investigator Award, Julia Kreiner, Heng Huang, Thomas Scott, and Dakota McCoy!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Naturalist Award, Dan Bolnick!

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 winner of the award for 2023 is “Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials” by Lucas Weaver, Henry Fulghum, David Grossnickle, William Brightly, Zoe Kulik, Gregory Wilson Mantilla, and Megan Whitney. Congratulations!

The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. 

Congratulations to Dan Bolnick (2025 ASN President) and Amy Angert (2025 ASN Vice President)

The recipient of the 2023 Student Paper Award is Meredith A. Zettlemoyer for her paper “Monitoring demography of resurrected populations of locally extinct and extant species to investigate drivers of species loss”

The ASN election is now open (March 1 to 31)!

Send in nominations by April 1. Please include a short paragraph on why. 

ASN is looking for new members to serve on several committees starting in 2023. Committee service is a great way to help shape the future of the society and its impact on the community, while working with a great team of colleagues. We are actively seeking self-nominations and nominations from the community because we are deeply committed to diversifying representation on the committees and expanding society leadership. Any member with an interest in serving the society is encouraged to volunteer. Please encourage promising candidates by bringing this announcement to their attention.