1. Honors and awards
Notable awards include:
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist from International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) in 2017
Two Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology awards in 2004 and 2014, plus one Honorable Mention in 1999
Two Chief’s Awards, in 2013 and 2016
Four Station Director’s Awards, in 2012, 2013, 2017, and 2019
Seven Cash Performance Awards
World-Class
Teamwork Award
by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Values Committee, with F.M.
Hoffman, for the construction of the Stone
Soupercomputer
– October 1999
Honorable
Mention for Outstanding
Paper in the Discipline of Landscape Ecology
for 1999 by the International Association of Landscape Ecology
(IALE) for “Using
Multivariate Clustering to Characterize Ecoregion Borders,”
Hargrove and Hoffman (1999) - April 2000
Outstanding
Paper in the Discipline of Landscape Ecology
by the International
Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE)
for Hargrove,
W.W., F.M. Hoffman, and P.M. Schwartz. 2002. A Fractal Landscape
Realizer for generating
synthetic maps.
Conservation Ecology
6(1): 2. [online]
– April 2004
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory Significant Event Award (SEA)
for FY 2006 for providing an initial statistical design for the
National
Ecological Observatory Network
(NEON)
by performing a Multivariate Geographic Clustering (MGC) analysis of
the lower 48 United States based on nine climatic variables from
which the official
national map of 20 NEON
domains was developed.
This analysis makes NEON
the first
national-scale ecological network that has been statistically
designed before deployment.
ORNL SEAs recognize individual and team contributions to the
Laboratory - March 2006
Stanley
I. Auerbach Award for Excellence in Environmental Science
for 2005. The Auerbach Award is the highest
scientific achievement award presented by the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Environmental Sciences Division
to recognize a staff member who has “sustained,
high-quality, creative scientific contributions in support of basic
research”
conducted during the five-year period preceding the award (award
presentation,
acceptance
presentation,
plaque,
certificate,
poster)
- April 2006
Gold
Medal of the Peoples’
Choice Awards
at the 2008 Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team
Meeting in Norfolk, VA for a poster titled “A
Cluster Analysis Approach to Comparing Atmospheric Radiation (ARM)
Data and Global Climate Model (GCM) Results."
description
of the award
“Most
Exciting Science” Award
for our poster, entitled “Assessing
Forest Tree Risk of Genetic Degradation from Climate Change”, by
W.W. Hargrove, K.M. Potter, and F.H. Koch,
presented at the Annual Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring
(FHM) Work Group meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico – April
2010
“Best
Graphics” Award
for our poster, entitled “Monitoring
2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based
on Near-Real Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products”,
by W.W. Hargrove, J. Spruce, G. Gasser, J. Smoot, and P. Kuper,
presented at the Annual Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring
(FHM) Work Group meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico – April
2010
“Best
Graphics” Award for our poster,
entitled "Example
2011 Forest Disturbance Detections Using MODIS Satellite Data
Products Resident to the US Forest Service ForWarn System”, by
W.W. Hargrove, J. Spruce, G. Gasser, J. Smoot, and P. Kuper.,
presented at the Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Work
Group meeting held in Tucson, AZ – April 2012
Poster,
“Long-Term Post-Wildfire Monitoring of Phenology and Recovery
Using a MODIS Time Series,” won Honorable Mention at the Map
Gallery People’s Choice Awards,
ESRI Forestry GIS Conference, ESRI Headquarters, Redlands, CA –
May 2012
“Best
Communication Product” Award, 1st
Place,
for our poster, entitled “The
Tornado Outbreak of April 11, 2011 Recorded by the USDA Forest
Service’s Forest Change Assessment Viewer”,
presented at the ESRI International Users Conference held in San
Diego, CA – July 2012
The
ForWarn
team, consisting of employees of four different U.S. Government
Agencies (USDA
FS,
NASA
Stennis Space Center,
USGS
EROS,
and DOE
ORNL),
was selected by Dr. Rob Doudrick, Director of the Southern Research
Station, to receive the 2012 Southern
Research Station Director's Award for Excellence in Science
Delivery.
The award was presented
to the entire ForWarn
team
in a ceremony
at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
in Raleigh, NC – award
trophy,
award
plaque
– The Team also received a $3000 monetary award for project use -
October 2012
The
Federal
Laboratory Consortium for Technology
Transfer
(FLC)
honored the ForWarn
team at the national level with its 2013 Interagency
Partnership Award,
which recognizes outstanding collaborative work across government
agencies in technology transfer and is one
of the highest honors from the FLC.
ForWarn
representatives personally received the award in a ceremony –
December 2012
In
December 2012, the ForWarn
Team received the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Computational
Science and Mathematics Division Most
Distinguished Scientific/Technical Contribution Award
In
January 2013, the ForWarn
Team was selected as a recipient of the FLC's
Southeast Region’s 2013 Partnership Award
– (trophy,
certificate,
compass
article)
- The two
FLC awards
highlight the unusual degree of 4-way interagency cooperation in
ForWarn,
which is not a simple one-time alignment, but a set of substantive
and ongoing collaborations demanded by a recurring ForWarn
production line repeating every 8 days – January 2013
In
April 2013, our international
collaborator Dr. Yasemin Erguner was awarded a US-International
Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) Foreign Scholar Travel Award
to attend the US-IALE Annual Meeting in Austin, TX and present
co-authored research results. This was one
of four
such IALE Travel Awards given in 2013
In
June 2013, the ForWarn
Team was awarded a NASA
Group Achievement Award
(award
letter).
The award was presented to ForWarn
representatives in a ceremony at the Stennisphere Auditorium at the
NASA
Stennis Space Center
in Mississippi on July 12, 2013.
In
June 2013, our international collaborator Dr. Yasemin Erguner was
awarded a 1-year
postdoctoral appointment, funded by the Turkish government.
Her postdoctoral tenure began in September 2013, and she was housed
at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory
in Oak Ridge, TN
In
July 2013, all USDA members of the ForWarn
Team received letters
from Thomas J. Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, congratulating
them on behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture
for being selected to receive the 2013 Interagency Partnership Award
from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. All
DOE ORNL members of the ForWarn
Team received a similar letter
from Ernest Moniz, the Secretary of Energy,
congratulating them on behalf of the Department
of Energy.
ForWarn
Team members at the NASA
Stennis Space Center
received a
congratulatory letter from Representative Steven Palazzo,
House of Representatives, 4th
District, Mississippi
In
November 2013, the ForWarn
Team was selected to receive the 2013 Southern
Research Station Director’s Partnership Award
“For the outstanding collaborative work across government agencies
in the development of ForWarn,
an effective forest disturbance monitoring tool useful at the
National level” – The Director’s Award, including a trophy
and individual inscribed business
card holders,
was presented in a Virtual
Awards Ceremony at the Station
on December 11, 2013. The Team was also awarded $1500 for project
use.
In
December 2013, the ForWarn
Team was selected to receive the Chief’s
Honor Award
from Thomas L. Tidwell, the Chief
of the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service,
for “helping to preserve and enhance the nations forests and
grasslands” (list
of awards,
award
cover letter)
– The Awards were presented in a Ceremony
on Monday, March 18, 2014 in Washington, DC
In
May 2014, the US-International Association of Landscape Ecology
(IALE) selected our paper, “Representativeness-Based
Sampling Network Design for the Arctic”
for their Most
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology for 2014
Award – award
was presented at the US-IALE meeting in Anchorage, AK - award
photo,
news
article,
link
to winning paper
In
April 2016, awarded a US-International Association for Landscape
Ecology (IALE) Certificate
of Appreciation
“for
outstanding service to the US-International Association for
Landscape Ecology as local host
(2016)” for organizing,
hosting and conducting the 2016 US-IALE annual meeting,
with over 500 attendees in two Asheville hotels
Received
the 2016
Chief’s Award for “Sustaining Forests and Grasslands”
as part of a team of four editors and more than 70 scientific
experts who developed a national drought assessment which was
published in 2016. Effects
of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A
Comprehensive Science Synthesis
provides a scientific foundation for management that promotes
well-adapted, resilient forests. The report includes a chapter
that discusses the fundamental challenges of detecting and
monitoring drought impacts at broad scales,
equally co-authored by EFETAC research ecologists Steve Norman,
Frank Koch, and Bill Hargrove – Compass
Live article here
Recognized as the 2017 U.S.-International Association for Landscape Ecology - US-IALE Distinguished Landscape Ecologist - April 11, 2017 - Baltimore, MD - From the North American Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology web page:
“The Award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contribution to the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking and writing have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development. This award is ordinarily given for outstanding scientific achievement over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by the International Association of Landscape Ecology.”
Hargrove's notification letter read:
"As you know, this award is the most prestigious honor bestowed by our society. This was an easy decision for us, based on the strength of your nomination and our personal knowledge of your long-term scientific contributions that have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology."
USDA
Forest Service News
report
- link
to past awardees
– April 2017
In
2015, we successfully proposed sites
that were selected
for the upcoming Vegetation
and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite
(VENµS)
satellite mission
–
An Israeli Space Agency (ISA)-designed microsatellite, teamed with
the French space agency Centre
national d'études spatiales
(CNES)
– The VENµS
Team
selected 10 of our 13 proposed sites
for imaging – 10% of the 105 sites/images will be our
sites
–
VENµS
will deliver us daily images, and will maintain near-polar
sun-synchronous orbit with constant sun/sensor geometry, permitting
new types of forest monitoring,
despite thick tropical clouds – ~5m resolution multi-spectral - a
2-year mission – tropical sites include Luquillo, Puerto Rico,
Barro Colorado, Panama, three Manaus Brazil sites, a western Amazon
site, two Malaysian sites, and three Indonesian sites, including two
tropical forest sites in Borneo – May 2017
Awarded
Adjunct
Faculty
status by unanimous
vote
at Rank of Full
Professor
within the Geography
Department
at the University
of Tennessee Knoxville
– https://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/
– September 2017
Awarded
the 2017 Southern
Research Station Director’s Distinguished Scientist Award
– “For sustained,
high-quality, creative scientific contributions in support of
research,
including leadership
in ForWarn,
ForeCASTS, and LanDAT
projects. Your
work is a credit to the Forest Service, the Southern Research
Station, and the larger research community.”
– Award
announcement letter
– Personal
notification letter
- described in Forest
ThreatNet
Fall 2017 – December 2017
The
HiForM
website,
showcasing our High-Resolution
Forest Disturbance Mapping,
was selected by Dr. Rob Doudrick, Director
of the Southern Research Station,
to receive the 2019
Southern
Research Station Director's Award for Excellence in Science
Delivery.
The award and trophy
were accepted
in a July 2019 ceremony
(video)
to the entire
HiForM Team
– also received a $3000 award for project use - June 2019
Cash
Performance Awards:
Hired
in October
2006
2008 $2,000
2010 $2,500
2012 $3,000
2014 $1,000
2015 $300
2017 $800
2018 3
separate Awards totaling $3,000