2024 BioOne Ambassador Awards Nominee Research

Now in its seventh year, the BioOne Ambassador Awards recognize early-career researchers who demonstrate creative approaches to communicating their specialized scientific research to the general public. By making scientific research more accessible to a wide audience, these researchers encourage greater scientific literacy and aid in the broader understanding of our natural world.

Explore the published research nominated by BioOne Complete partner publishers for the 2024 BioOne Ambassador Awards.

Photo: 2023 BioOne Ambassador Dr. Xochitl Clare

Dr. Xochitl Clare in a wetsuit and hauling SCUBA gear with the beach in the background. BioOne Ambassador Award logo

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Photo: 2023 BioOne Ambassador Nidia Mendoza-Díaz

Dr. Nidia Mendoza-Díaz collecting botanical samples

Nominated by: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AVIAN PATHOLOGISTS

Nominee: Roel Becerra

Protection Efficacy of Recombinant HVT-ND-LT and the Live Attenuated Tissue Culture Origin Vaccines Against Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus When Administered Individually or in Combination

Avian Diseases

Nominee: Irene Bueno

Efficacy of Antibiotic and Non-antibiotic Interventions in Preventing and Treating Necrotic Enteritis in Broiler Chickens: A Systematic Review

Avian Diseases

Nominee: Yu-Yang Tsai

Laser Capture Microdissection, Culture Analysis, and Bacterial Sequencing to Evaluate the Microbiota of Focal Duodenal Necrosis in Egg Layers

Avian Diseases

Nominated by: AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Nominee: Alejandro López-García

White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain

Ornithological Applications

Nominee: Claire E. Nemes

More than mortality: Consequences of human activity on migrating birds extend beyond direct mortality

Ornithological Applications

Nominee: Whitney A. Watson

Characterizing juvenile dispersal dynamics of invasive Barred Owls: Implications for management

Ornithological Applications

Nominee: William E. Brooks

Asymmetric song recognition does not influence gene flow in an emergent songbird hybrid zone

Ornithology

Nominee: Lukas J. Musher

Underestimated Neotropical diversity: Integrative taxonomy reveals two unrelated look-alike species in a suboscine bird
( Pachyramphus albogriseus)

Ornithology

Nominee: Sadie C. Ranck

Sex, body size, and winter weather explain migration strategies in a partial migrant population of American Kestrels

Ornithology

Nominated by: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ICHTHYOLOGISTS AND HERPETOLOGISTS

Nominee: Amanda Cicchino

Temperature and Development Drive Variation in Oral Morphology among Tailed Frog ( Ascaphus spp.) Populations

Ichthyology & Herpetology

Nominee: Racine E. Rangel

Rates of Alloparental Care by Male Stickleback in Natural Lake Populations

Ichthyology & Herpetology

Nominee: Yi-Kai Tea

Review of Australian Species of Paracheilinus Fourmanoir (Teleostei: Labridae), with Description of a New Species from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea

Ichthyology & Herpetology

Nominated by: ASSOCIATION OF REPTILIAN AND AMPHIBIAN VETERINARIANS

Nominee: M. Ashton Boon

Ophidian Serpentoviruses: A Review and Perspective

Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery

Nominated by: MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN PRESS

Nominee: Ariana Lucía Padin

Revisión Taxonómica y Estado de Conservación de las Especies de Eryngium (Apiaceae, Saniculoideae) Presentes en Chile

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Nominee: José Esteban Jiménez

A New Species of Matelea (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) from the Península de Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Novon, A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature

Nominee: Nivohenintsoa Rakotonirina

Taxonomic Studies on Malagasy Dalbergia (Fabaceae). IV. A New Species from Central and Southern Madagascar and a Narrowed Circumscription for D. emirnensis

Novon, A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature

Nominee: Hasina N. Rakouth

Taxonomic Studies of Diospyros (Ebenaceae) from the Malagasy Region. IX. Clarification of Species Limits between D. clusiifolia and D. fuscovelutina, and Establishment of a New Combination Based on a Name Previously Placed in Synonymy, Tetraclis baronii

Novon, A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature

Nominated by: NATIONAL SHELLFISHERIES ASSOCIATION

Nominee: Max D. Zavell

An Estimate of Carbon Storage Capabilities from Wild and Cultured Shellfish in the Northwest Atlantic and Their Potential Inclusion in a Carbon Economy

Journal of Shellfish Research

Nominated by: OSMYLUS SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS

Nominee: Yiselle Cano-Cobos

Check-list of the Odonata from the Guainía Department in Colombia, including fourteen new national records

Odonatologica

Nominated by: RAPTOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Nominee: Carina Nebel

Genetic Analysis of Golden Eagles
( Aquila chrysaetos) from the Mongol-Altai: A Hotspot of Diversity and Implications for Global Phylogeography

Journal of Raptor Research

Nominee: Michael T. Stewart

Adult Home Range Size and Juvenile Movements of Gray Hawks in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA

Journal of Raptor Research

Nominated by: SOCIETY FOR SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Nominee: Alyssa M. Leclaire

TAPHONOMIC INDICATORS OF DEAD OCEAN QUAHOG ( ARCTICA ISLANDICA) SHELL AGE IN THE DEATH ASSEMBLAGE OF THE MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT CONTINENTAL SHELF

PALAIOS

Nominee: Riley C. Morton

AQUARIA-BASED OBSERVATIONS OF THE OPHIUROID OPHIOLEPIS SUPERBA AND THE TRACKWAYS IT PRODUCES

PALAIOS

Nominee: Jennifer D. Wagner

PLANT COMMUNITY CHANGE ACROSS THE PALEOCENE–EOCENE BOUNDARY IN THE GULF COASTAL PLAIN, CENTRAL TEXAS

PALAIOS

Nominated by: SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY SOCIETY

Nominee: Si-Yuan Xu

Two new erythraeid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) from China: one based on larvae, another one based on larvae and adult

Systematic and Applied Acarology

Nominee: Keshi Zhang

Larval feeding types shape the predation aggression of predatory mites in both intraspecific and interspecific encounters

Systematic and Applied Acarology

Nominee: Yu-Xi Zhu

Antibiotics and temperature alter microbiome assembly and host fecundity in spider mites

Systematic and Applied Acarology

Nominated by: BRAZILIAN SOCIETY OF HERPETOLOGY

Nominee: Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira

Treefrog Diversity in the Neotropics: Phylogenetic Relationships of Scinaxini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

South American Journal of Herpetology

Nominee: Rodrigo B. Fontana

Leaf-Litter Anurans in An Agricultural Landscape in the araucaria Forest: A Case Study for Southern Brazil

South American Journal of Herpetology

Nominated by: SOUTHERN AFRICAN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Nominee: Michael S. Lukubwe

Oxpecker Host-Selection in the Salambala Conservancy, Northeastern Namibia

African Journal of Wildlife Research

Nominee: Wade K. Stanton-Jones

Habitat Transformation Correlates with the Decline of Sungazer
( Smaug giganteus) Subpopulations

African Journal of Wildlife Research

Nominee: Jarryd P. Streicher

Not All Mammalian Small Carnivores are Equal: A Global Review of the Research Effort in Urban Areas

African Journal of Wildlife Research

Nominated by: SPANISH SOCIETY OF ORNITHOLOGY

Nominee: Nerea Martínez Zunzarren

Survival, Dispersal and Initial Migratory Movements of Juvenile Great Spotted Cuckoos Clamator glandarius

Ardeola

Nominated by: STUTTGART STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Nominee: Thalles P. Lavinscky Pereira

Discovery of snakeworm gnats in Alaska: a new species of Sciara Meigen (Diptera: Sciaridae) based on morphological, molecular, and citizen science data

Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History

Nominated by: THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Nominee: Ayano Mizukami

A Three-Dimensionally Preserved Frog (Amphibia, Anura) from the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Paleontological Research

Nominee: Satoshi Sasaki

Relationship between Modern Deep-Sea Ostracods and Water Mass Structure in East Antarctica

Paleontological Research

Nominee: Hirochika Ueda

Morphometric and Cladistic Analyses of a Theropod Tooth from the Itsuki Formation of the Tetori Group in the Kuzuryu District, Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Paleontological Research

Nominated by: WILDLIFE DISEASE ASSOCIATION

Nominee: Elis A. Fisk

Abortion and Neonatal Mortality Due to Toxoplasma gondii in Bighorn Sheep ( Ovis canadensis)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Nominee: Sarah E. Wright

Agreement Study between Total Leukocyte Count Methodologies in South American Sea Lions ( Otaria byronia) and Peruvian Fur Seals ( Arctocephalus australis)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Nominated by: ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Nominee: Mahlatse F. Mashaphu

The Status of COI and 12S rRNA DNA Barcode Reference Libraries for Freshwater Fish in South Africa: Implications for Future eDNA Projects

African Zoology

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