CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS -The R.J. Russell Award
Nominations
for the R.J. Russell Award should be directed to the Vice-Chair. Nominations for
the award should be made at least 2 weeks prior to the annual AAG meeting.
Beginning in 2004, the individual selected will receive the award at the next
years annual meeting (e.g., the nomine selected in 2004 will receive the award
in 2005). The award consists of a plaque and complimentary registration to the
annual meeting.
This specialty group award is presented in recognition
of an individual's major contributions to the field of coastal or marine
geography. These contributions may be in research, teaching, public service,
and/or to the specialty group. The list of past awardees are available HERE.
Nomination are accepted from CoMa members, but nominees do not have to
be members of either the specialty group or the AAG. Two nominations are
required for consideration for the Award. At least one of the nominations must
include a complete letter of nomination which will include a one paragraph
letter describing the nominees contributions to the field of coastal or marine
geography and/or to the special interest group and a list of the nominees
relevant publications.
Example Letter of Nomination
April 1, 2022
Dr. Vice Chair,
It is my privilege to nominated Dr. Jane Smith for the R.J. Russell Award. She has
demonstrated consistent leadership in the Coastal & Marine Specialty Group
and in the discipline. This leadership has been demonstrated by her service to
the AAG as Chair of the Local Arrangement Committee for the 2019 AAG Annual
Meeting, member of the AAG's Geography Core Curriculum Project (2010-2013), and
past Board Member of the Specialty Group (1999-2003) and Specialty Group Treasurer 2014-2018. She has
produced many research publications of the highest caliber. The quality of her
work is best demonstrated by two seminal papers published by the Journal of
Coastal Reaserch (JCR). The first, titled Impacts of groins on longshore
sediment transport in a low energy environment, was published in JCR in 2018
and the second, A Integrated Model for predicting long-shore and cross-shore
sediment transport in low energy environments, was published in 2020. This model is now one of the primary models used by the U.S. Corps of Engineers for predicting sediment transport after beach nourishment projects in the Great Lakes.
Dr. Smith's vitae with a complete list of relevant publications is
available from the University of Key West, Geography Department, home page at
https://www.key.edu/geog/staff/jsmith.html.
Sincerely,
James Dow III