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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Sergio Andrés Baietto Álvarez
Faculty of Agronomy, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Elizabeth R. Rogers
Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
Chairman
University of Auckland
Dr. Carlos Mello
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Dr. Radu-Daniel Pintilii
University of Bucharest - Faculty of Geography
Dr. Emil Engelund Thybring
University of Copenhagen
Winner
Mostarin Ara
Forest Management, University of Alberta, Canada
Fernando Júnior Resende Mascarenhas
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
University of Auckland
Prof. Miha Humar
University of Ljubljana
Prof. Enzai Du
Beijing Normal University
Dr. Xiankai Lu
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Winner
Melissa Latella
Department of Environment, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Eko Setio Wibowo
Department of Wood and Paper Science, Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Prof. Angela Lo Monaco
Università della Tuscia
Dr. Luis Diaz-Balteiro
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Winner
Pipiet Larasatie
College of Forestry, Oregon State University, USA
Tania L. Maxwell
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), France
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Prof. Angela Lo Monaco
Università della Tuscia
Dr. Olga Viedma
Winner
Morgan Crowley
Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Canada
Ninni Saarinen
Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Winner
Evgenios Agathokleous
Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Institute, Japan
Mizanur Rahman
Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
University of Auckland
Dr. Damian Adams
University of Florida
Winner
Danielle E. Marias
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA,
Monika Shea
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Winner
Paloma Ruiz Benito
Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, University of Alcala, Spain
Stephen Murphy
Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada
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