Jimmie Pigg Memorial Outstanding Student Achievement Award
The Warmwater Streams Committee was established in 1976 as a technical committee within the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society in order to address issues related to warmwater streams. The Committee promotes the conservation and management of warmwater streams by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and concerns.
The Committee created an Outstanding Student Achievement Award in 1997 to recognize university students who are truly outstanding in research, education and professional endeavors. Outstanding student(s) are recognized at the Southern Division’s Annual Mid-Year Meeting and receive a plaque, funds to travel to the meeting ($300), and a one-year membership to the American Fisheries Society. In 1999, the award was re-named the Jimmie Pigg Memorial Outstanding Student Achievement Award in honor of Jimmie Pigg, a longtime supporter of student activities.
This year we will select two recipients, one MS student and one PhD student. Students must be either currently enrolled in a university or had been enrolled during the 2005-2006 academic year. Criteria are based on research, education and professional activities. Research criteria can be achieved by either independent graduate activities or collaborative research with educators or fishery scientists. All aspects of research activities concerned with warmwater streams are acceptable. An outstanding educational record based on undergraduate and/or graduate courses is desirable. Courses concerned with fishery or aquatic biology, statistical concepts, and warmwater stream biology and management are highly desirable, but not required. Professional activities such as holding offices or chairing committees in fishery-related student organizations, AFS Chapters, and other professional organizations are desirable. Activities in public services such as children fishing derbies, teaching conservation and fishing workshops to local elementary and high schools and other conservation-related activities are also desirable. All nominees must be willing to present their research at the 2007 SDAFS Spring Meeting and must submit with the nomination material an abstract. All nominees will be ranked based on research (40%), education (25%), professional service (25%) and public service (10%). A committee of members employed by state and federal agencies, and universities will serve as the selection committee. Nomination material is available from the Committee's homepage housed in the SD AFS site (http://www.sdafs.org/) or by contacting Frank Fiss at Frank.Fiss@state.tn.us or 615-781-6519. All nomination materials must be submitted by December 15, 2006 to Frank Fiss, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, PO Box 40747, Nashville, TN 37204. Click here to download the scholarship form.
1For the definition of warmwater streams see Winger, P.V. 1981. Physical and chemical characteristics of warmwater streams: A review. In Krumholz, L.A. editor. The Warmwater Stream Symposium: A National Symposium on Fisheries Aspects of Warmwater Streams. American Fisheries Society Warmwater Streams Symposium, 1981, pp 33-44.