Editor's Picks
Three-day event included visits to two parks in Berkshire...
Roderick Cameron
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Aug 18, 2024
Several abstracts included research involving Quercus.
Website Editor
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Aug 13, 2024
This five-day event included visits to four oak collections...
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Aug 12, 2024
Plant Focus
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IOS Service Awards
Since the 2000 International Oak Conference, Service Awards honor individuals (non-members as well as members of the Society) who have made devoted long-term efforts to the genus Quercus and/or to the advancement of the goals of the IOS.
There are two categories of awards:
- Lifetime Service Award: this award is given to individuals who over a lifetime have devoted efforts to the genus Quercus or contributed to the Society and the advancement of its goals.
- Special Service Award: this award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to our knowledge of oaks or to the advancement of the Society’s goals.
Past recipients are listed below.
Special Service Award
- 2022 Roderick Cameron (Uruguay), Jeannine Cavender-Bares (USA), Janet Cobb (USA), David Cranwell (New Zealand), Min Deng (China)
- 2018 Andrew Hipp (USA), David Richardson (USA), Mike Meléndrez (USA), Charles Snyers d'Attenhoven (Belgium)
- 2015 Allen Coombes (UK), Antoine Kremer (France), Dirk Benoit (Belgium), Marcie Mayer, Bob McCartney (USA)
- 2012 Doug McCreary (USA)
- 2009 Ron Lance, Matt Strong (USA), Thierry Lamant (France), Michel Timacheff, Antoine Le Hardÿ de Beaulieu (Belgium)
- 2006 Richard Jensen (USA), Dan Keiser (USA), Christian Spinelli (Costa Rica)
- 2003 Diana Gardener (USA), Ed Holm (USA), Rudy Light (USA)
Lifetime Service Award
- 2022 Michael Avishai (posthumous, Israel), Jean-Louis Hélardot (France), Eike Jablonski (Luxembourg)
- 2018 James Harris (United Kingdom)
- 2015 Michel Duhart (France), Francisco Garin (Spain), Diana Gardener (USA)
- 2012 Michael Heathcoat Amory (United Kingdom), William J. Hess (USA), Bob Berry (New Zealand), Dorothy Holley (United Kingdom), Allan Taylor (USA)
- 2006 Nihat Gökyigit (Turkey), Hayrettin Karaca (Turkey)
- 2003 Guy Sternberg (USA)
- 2000 J.R.P. van Hoey Smith (Holland), Stelian Radu (Romania)