
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