2025 Jody Connor Student Award Winners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 24, 2025
Contact: Alyssa Anderson, Development & Marketing Director
Phone: 608-233-2836
Email: info@nalms.org
North American Lake Management Society Announces 2025 Student Award Winners
CALEDONIA, MN – Each year the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) presents student awards to the best student presentation and best student poster at the annual NALMS symposium. The 2025 student awards were sponsored by the New England Chapter of NALMS.
The NALMS Board of Directors renamed the student award as the Jody Connor Student Award in memory of Jody Connor, a long-time friend of NALMS who was active on the Education Committee and participated in the reviews of student presentations and posters. The first-place winners receive a check for $250 and a plaque, while the honorable mention or second place winners receive a plaque. The awards are based on scientific merit, research design, visual aids, clarity, and presentation.
We are delighted to share that the 2025 first-place oral presentation winner is Julie Critchfield, University of California Davis, Davis, CA for her talk entitled “Quantifying Differential Cooling in Deep Oligotrophic Lakes.” The 2025 first-place poster presentation winner is Lillian Doll, Clemson University, Clemson, SC for her poster entitled “Validating the Pond Shoreline Assessment Tool (PSAT) Using Grand Strand Stormwater Wet Ponds to Implement as a Future Inspection Technique.” Congratulations to Julie and Lillian for your excellent work!
We are also happy to share the 2025 Honorable Mention awards, for both oral and poster presentations! The 2025 honorable mention oral presentation winner is Catherine Schlenker, for her talk entitled “Examining the Impact of Emerging Contaminants on Phytoplankton Communities in a Managed Reservoir: Lake Murray, SC.” The 2025 honorable mention poster presentation winner is Summer Weidman, for her poster entitled “Using Satellite Imagery to Detect Northern Hydrilla: Time[1]Series Analysis of Northern Hydrilla in the Connecticut River From 1994–2024.” Congratulations to Catherine and Summer!
We thank the New England Chapter of NALMS for sponsoring the student awards and for all of the students who presented and/or attended the NALMS symposium in Myrtle Beach! We look forward to excellent student participation at the NALMS 2026 symposium in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada!