# Hynes Award for New Investigators

The Hynes Award for New Investigators is awarded by the Society for Freshwater Science and recognizes an excellent academic research paper in the freshwater sciences by a scientist less than five years after their terminal graduate degree (usually, a doctorate). Recipients of the award have gone on to become leading senior researchers, serving as science advisors to various governments and states, and held leadership positions in national and international scientific societies.
The award is named after H.B. Noel Hynes, a British biologist who worked at the University of Liverpool and the University of Waterloo, where he was a world-leading expert on freshwater invertebrates and ecology.

## Recipients

| Award Year | Recipient | Paper Title | Co-authors | Paper Publication Year | Journal |
| 2021 | Rafael M. Almeida | "Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with strategic dam planning" | Qinru Shi, Jonathan M. Gomes-Selman, Xiaojian Wu, Yexiang Xue, Hector Angarita, Nathan Barros, Bruce R. Forsberg, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Stephen K. Hamilton, John M. Melack, Mariana Montoya, Guillaume Perez, Suresh A. Sethi, Carla P. Gomes, Alexander S. Flecker | 2019 | Nature Communications |
| 2020 | Amanda L. Subalusky | "Annual mass drownings of the Serengeti wildebeest migration influence nutrient cycling and storage in the Mara River" | Christopher L. Dutton, Emma J. Rosi, David M. Post | 2017 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| 2019 | Daniel Nelson | "Experimental whole‐stream warming alters community size structure" | Jonathan P. Benstead, Alexander D. Huryn, Wyatt F. Cross, James M. Hood, Philip W. Johnson, James R. Junker, Gísli M. Gíslason, Jón S. Ólafsson | 2017 | Global Change Biology |
| 2018 | Amanda G. DelVecchia | "Ancient and methane-derived carbon subsidizes contemporary food webs" | Jack A. Stanford, Xiaomei Xu | 2016 | Nature Communications |
| 2016 | Erin R. Hotchkiss | "Whole‐stream $^{13}$C tracer addition reveals distinct fates of newly fixed carbon" | Robert O. Hall Jr. | 2015 | Ecology |
| 2015 | Carla L. Atkinson | "Tracing Consumer-Derived Nitrogen in Riverine Food Webs" | Jeffrey F. Kelly, Caryn C. Vaughn | 2014 | Ecosystems |
| 2014 | Daniel C. Allen | "Bottom-up biodiversity effects increase resource subsidy flux between ecosystems" | Caryn C. Vaughn, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Joshua T. Cooper, Michael H. Engel | 2012 | Ecology |
| 2013 | Michael T. Bogan | "Severe drought drives novel community trajectories in desert stream pools" | David A. Lytle | 2011 | Freshwater Biology |
| 2012 | Ronald D. Bassar | "Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes" | Michael C. Marshall, Andrés López-Sepulcre, Eugenia Zandonà, Sonya K. Auer, Joseph Travis, Catherine M. Pringle, Alexander S. Flecker, Steven A. Thomas, Douglas F. Fraser, David N. Reznick | 2010 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| 2011 | Debra S. Finn | "Demographic Stability Metrics for Conservation Prioritization of Isolated Populations" | Michael T. Bogan, David A. Lytle | 2009 | Conservation Biology |
| 2010 | John M. Davis | "Long-term nutrient enrichment decouples predator and prey production" | Amy D. Rosemond, Susan L. Eggert, Wyatt F. Cross, J. Bruce Wallace | 2010 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| 2009 | Brian J. Roberts | "Multiple Scales of Temporal Variability in Ecosystem Metabolism Rates: Results from 2 Years of Continuous Monitoring in a Forested Headwater Stream" | Patrick J. Mulholland, Walter R. Hill | 2007 | Ecosystems |
| 2008 | Peter B. McIntyre | "Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters" | Laura E. Jones, Alexander S. Flecker, Michael J. Vanni | 2007 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| 2007 | Brad W. Taylor | "Loss of a Harvested Fish Species Disrupts Carbon Flow in a Diverse Tropical River" | Alexander S. Flecker, Robert O. Hall Jr. | 2006 | Science |
| 2006 | Jack Brookshire | "Coupled cycling of dissolved organic nitrogen and carbon in a forest stream" | H. Maurice Valett, Steven A. Thomas, Jackson R. Webster | 2005 | Ecology |
| 2005 | Colden V. Baxter | "Fish invasion restructures stream and forest food webs by interrupting reciprocal prey subsidies" | Kurt D. Fausch, Masashi Murakami, Phillip L. Chapman | 2004 | Ecology |
| 2004 | Emily S. Bernhardt | "Dissolved Organic Carbon Enrichment Alters Nitrogen Dynamics in a Forest Stream" | Gene E. Likens | 2002 | Ecology |
| 2003 | Bradley J. Cardinale | "Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation" | Margaret A. Palmer, Scott L. Collins | 2002 | Nature |
| 2002 | David A. Lytle | "Flash floods and aquatic insect life-history evolution: evaluation of multiple models" | | 2002 | Ecology |
| 2001 | Michelle A. Baker | "Organic Carbon Supply and Metabolism in a Shallow Groundwater Ecosystem" | H. Maurice Valett, Clifford N. Dahm | 2000 | Ecology |
| 2000 | Robert O. Hall Jr. | "The trophic significance of bacteria in a detritus‐based stream food web" | Judith L. Meyer | 1998 | Ecology |