Award Winners | College of the Environment

Academic Year 2017-2018

Distinguished Staff Member: Erica M. Coleman (Atmospheric Sciences)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty: Eli Wheat (Program on the Environment)
Outstanding Researcher: David C. Catling (Earth and Space Sciences)
Outstanding Diversity Commitment: Isadora Jimenez-Hidalgo (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Student: Tyler J. Valentine (Earth and Space Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Faculty or Staff: Nives Dolšak (Marine and Environmental Affairs)
Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduate Students: Chelsea L. Wood (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist: Jacob M. Hendrickson (Atmospheric Sciences)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist: Joshua Krissansen-Totton (Earth and Space Sciences) and
Andre Perkins (Atmospheric Sciences)
Distinguished Staff Member, Workday: Wanjiku Gitahi, Jennifer Weiss (Atmospheric Sciences); Megan Russell (College of the Environment); Kathy Gabriel, Eunice R. Yang (Earth and Space Sciences); Kathleen M. Cowell, Aimee Urata (Friday Harbor Labs); Merle R. Jones, Deborah Malarek (JISAO); Lien Lai, Su Tipple, Kittie D. Tucker (Oceanography); Kathleen R. Effert, Karen R. Irwin (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences); Eileen Herman, Trinh Vo (Washington Sea Grant); Leta Truong Kao (Environmental and Forest Sciences); Jackie T. Chapman, Suanty Kaghan (Marine and Environmental Affairs)

Distinguished Staff Member: David Campbell (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty: Kerry Naish & Gabrielle Rocap (Oceanography & Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Researcher: Anitra Ingalls (Oceanography)
Outstanding Diversity Commitment: Jessica Hernandez (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Student: Judy Twedt (Atmospheric Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Faculty or Staff: Lara Whitely Binder (Climate Impacts Group)
Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduate Students: Ashley Maloney (Oceanography)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist: Robert Swan (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist: Katherine Heal (Oceanography)

Distinguished Staff Member: Kathryn Stout (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Hauser (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Researcher: Joshua Lawler (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Outstanding Diversity Commitment: Robert Winglee (Earth and Space Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Student: Isabel Carrera Zamanillo (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Faculty or Staff: Tom Leschine (Marine and Environmental Affairs)
Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduate Students: Chang Dou (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist: Nirupam Nigam (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist: Bradley Markle (Earth and Space Sciences)

Distinguished Staff Member: Doug Russell (Oceanography)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty:  Juliet Crider (Earth and Space Sciences)
Outstanding Researcher: Tim Essington (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Diversity Commitment, Student: Brian Tracey (Marine and Environmental Affairs)
- Honorable Mention, Faculty: Billie Swalla (Friday Harbor Laboratories)
- Honorable Mention, Faculty: Greg Hakim (Atmospheric Sciences)
- Honorable Mention, Staff: Juan Carlos Chavez (Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium)
- Honorable Mention, Student: Emily Davis (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Student:  Miku Lenentine (Oceanography)
Outstanding Community Impact, Staff: Teri King (Washington Sea Grant)
Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduates, Faculty: Fang-Zhen Teng (Earth and Space Sciences)
Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduates, Student: Jaclyn Saunders (Oceanography)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist: Sophia Winkler-Schor (Environmental and Forest Sciences, Environmental Studies)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist: Samantha Zwicker (Environmental and Forest Sciences)

Distinguished Staff Member:  Miriam Bertram (Program on Climate Change)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty:  Kerry Naish (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Researcher: Eric Steig (Earth and Space Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Student:  Kristen Rasmussen (Atmospheric Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Faculty: Cliff Mass (Atmospheric Sciences)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist: Heather Bervid (Earth and Space Sciences)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist: Alicia Hotovec-Ellis (Earth and Space Sciences)

Distinguished Staff Member:  Juan Carlos Chavez (Washington Space Grant)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty:  Nives Dolšak (Marine and Environmental Affairs)
Outstanding Researcher: Trevor Branch (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Student:  Karl Lang (Earth and Space Sciences)
Outstanding Community Impact, Faculty: David Fluharty (Marine and Environmental Affairs)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist: Taryn Black (Earth and Space Sciences)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist: Kate Allstadt (Earth and Space Sciences)

Community Impact Award (faculty/staff) – Bill Steele (Earth and Space Sciences)
Community Impact Award (student) – Rachel Mitchell (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Distinguished Staff Member – Andrew Sattler (Atmospheric Sciences)
Outstanding Teaching Faculty – Christian Grue (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Outstanding Researcher – David Montgomery (Earth and Space Sciences)
Graduate Dean’s Medalist – Meryl Mims (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist – Katelyn Atakturk (Earth and Space Sciences)