Outstanding Contributions to Research in EE

The Outstanding Contributions to Research in Environmental Education Award is presented each year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to environmental education through research in the following areas:

Conducting EE research of a substantive nature that contributes to the theory and practice of EE;
Reporting of EE research at professional conferences or in refereed journals or other research publications; and
Promoting EE research through activities, such as serving on research committees or on editorial boards of research publications, teaching and/or serving on thesis committees, and designing training programs in research and evaluation.

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Past Recipients

2022 Winners
Prof. Robert B. Powell, Clemson University, and Prof. Marc J. Stern, Virginia Tech

2019 Winner
Dr. Marianne Krasny, Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University
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2018 Winner
Dr. Martha Monroe, Professor and Associate Director in the Faculty of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida
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2017 Winner
Dr. Constance Russell, Professor, Lakehead University
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2016 Winner
Dr. Nicole Ardoin, Associate Professor, Stanford University
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2015 Winner
Dr. Alan Reid, Monash University Faculty of Education and Monash Sustainability Institute
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2014 Winner
Dr. Michaela Zint, Associate Professor of Environmental Education & Communication School of Natural Resources & Environment, School of Education, College of Literature, Science & the Arts University of Michigan
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2013 Winner
Dr. Justin Dillon, Professor of Science and Environmental Education and Head of the Science and Technology Group, King's College London

2011 Winner
Dr. William McBeth, Wisconsin

2010 Winner
Dr. Robert Stevenson, Australia

2009 Winner
Dr. Bob Jickling, Lakehead University, Canada

2008 Winner
Dr. Arjen E.J. Wals, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

2007 Winner
Dr. Regula Kybruz-Graber, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2006 Winner
Dr. Michael Brody, Montana State University

2006 Winner
Dr. Stephen Kellert, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

2005 Winner
Dr. Ian Robottom, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

2003 Winner
Dr. William Scott, University of Bath

2002 Winner
Dr. Joe E. Heimlich, Ohio State University

2001 Winner
Dr. John Ramsey

2000 Winner
Dr. Robert Roth, Ohio State University

1999 Winner
Dr. Nicholas J. Smith-Sebasto, University of Illinois

1997 Winner
Dr. Louise Chawla, Kentucky State University

1996 Winner
Dr. Deborah Simmons, University of Illinois

1995 Winner
Dr. Trudi Volk, Southern Illinois University

1994 Winner
Dr. Thomas Marcinkowski, Florida Institute of Technology

1993 Winner
Dr. Paul Hart, University of Regina, Canada

1992 Winner
Dr. Rosanne Fortner, The Ohio State University

1991 Winner
Dr. Harold Hungerford, Southern Illinois University

1990 Winner
Dr. Thomas Tanner, University of Iowa

1989 Winner
Dr. Ted Mills, Oklahoma State University

1988 Winner
Dr. Louis A. Iozzi, Rutgers University

1987 Winner
Dr. Audrey Tomera, Southern Illinois University

2024 Outstanding Contributions to Research in EE Award