Outstanding Contributions to Research in EE

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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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2024 Outstanding Contributions to Research in EE Award

Kathryn Tate Stevenson, NC State University

Past Recipients

2022 Winners
, Clemson University, and , Virginia Tech

2019 Winner
, Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University
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2018 Winner
, Professor and Associate Director in the Faculty of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida 
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2017 Winner
, Professor, Lakehead University 
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2016 Winner
, Associate Professor, Stanford University  
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2015 Winner
, Monash University Faculty of Education and Monash Sustainability Institute 
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2014 Winner
, 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
, Professor of Science and Environmental Education and Head of the Science and Technology Group, King's College London 

2011 Winner
, Wisconsin 

2010 Winner
, Australia 

2009 Winner
, Lakehead University, Canada 

2008 Winner
, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 

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

2006 Winner
, Montana State University 

2006 Winner
, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 

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

2003 Winner
, University of Bath 

2002 Winner
, Ohio State University 

2001 Winner
Dr. John Ramsey

2000 Winner
, Ohio State University 

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

1997 Winner
, Kentucky State University 

1996 Winner
, University of Illinois 

1995 Winner
, Southern Illinois University 

1994 Winner
, Florida Institute of Technology 

1993 Winner
, University of Regina, Canada 

1992 Winner
, The Ohio State University 

1991 Winner
, 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