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Each year our Society recognizes the achievement of individuals whose work enriches our understanding or appreciation of Texas native plants. Awards may be presented for acts of conservation and public service, excellence in writing, horticultural achievement, lifetime achievement, and service to NPSOT. Recipients are honored at the Awards Banquet during the Fall Symposium.Awards are selected by the awards committee with approval by our state board. The committee wants your input to identify qualified candidates. Nominations may be submitted no later than May 31 to be considered for the awards this year. The committee will be considering the work of individuals and groups for the following nine awards.
Nominations must be submitted on the NPSOT website page. Link to the nominations page: https://www.npsot.org/wp/abacus/archives/454
Our Awards:
The Carroll Abbott Memorial Award is given for writings in the popular vein on
Texas native plants. Named for the founder of the Society.
The Donovan Stewart Correll Memorial Award is presented for scientific writing in the field of the native flora of Texas.
The Nancy Benedict Memorial Award honors an individual, a group or an organization for a specific act of conservation or public service in the field of Texas native plants. This is neither a “joiner” nor a “lifetime of service” award.
The Charles Leonard Weddle Memorial Award is awarded for lifetime achievement in the field of Texas native plants.
The Lynn Lowrey Memorial Award is given for horticultural achievement in the field of Texas native plants.
The Native Star Award is given to an organization or agency for a specific act of conservation or public service.
The Digital Media Award recognizes outstanding digital publications featuring Texas native plants.
The Mary Jo Laughlin / Eula Whitehouse Memorial Award recognizes visual art that illustrate interprets or promotes native plants.
The Shirley D Lusk Memorial Award honors a citizen scientist for collecting and preserving Texas native plants for public education by providing outstanding contribution of herbarium vouchers.
Nominees must have contributed at least 75 specimens and be an NPSOT member for at least five years.
NOTE: The Shirley D Lusk Memorial Award is a new award. Its purpose is to encourage amateur botanists to collect, press and donate specimens to a recognized herbarium in Texas or for educational use. Thus, science is advanced by cataloguing plant diversity as climate change reshapes our ecosystems.
Rules and Qualifications
• Each memorial award may be made annually, although it is not mandated that an award be given in any category every year. An award will be given only when there is justification for it.
• Only those publications or acts published or performed within the past five years will be considered.
• Only those publications, which deal with the native Texas flora, or acts of discovery, rediscovery, conservation or service, in a broad sense, on Texas soil with the native Texas flora, shall be considered for awards.
• Publications may be books, monographs, papers, magazine articles, etc. If a paper or magazine article, it would probably record original or groundbreaking work.
• The lifetime achievement award shall be for longtime service and achievement in the collection, study, usage, writing, planting, growing, observing, etc. in the arena of the native fora of the state of Texas.
• Award recipients need not be members of the Society except for the Contest Awards and Fellows Awards.
• No one person (team, etc.) may win more than one award in any calendar year.
• Only one award per category will be given for Memorial Awards.
• None of the above shall preclude the State Board from giving awards of merit, service, appreciation, etc. to members or non-members of the Society.
• An award recipient is not required to accept his or her award in person although this is certainly preferred. If the award is not accepted in person, it may be mailed to the recipient or given in person to a designated substitute.
• Award recipients are expected to pay for their own transportation and lodging, but may receive a complimentary registration package (including banquet dinner).
• Link to the nominations page: https://www.npsot.org/wp/abacus/archives/454
Fellows Awards and Contests
Members will have the opportunity later in the year to nominate members for Fellows Awards, and to enter contests for photography and videos. This year there will also be a chapter newsletter contest. Rules and deadlines for all contests will be announced later.
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