2021 Elizabeth Jester Fellows Award Nomination Form
Criteria: Elizabeth Jester Fellows Award
The EJF Award will be presented to an individual who, by his or her actions, has provided outstanding achievement, exemplary service, and/or distinguished leadership at the local, state, tribal, interstate, and/or national levels in one or more of the following areas of natural resources management and environmental protection:
Provides program leadership or technical insight to champion and support water quality aspects of natural resources management and environmental protection.
Fosters effective collaboration in planning, executing and reporting water quality monitoring results.
Stimulates significant improvements in monitoring that used comparable and scientifically defensible information aiding the interpretation and evaluation of water quality conditions.
Documents significant watershed component interactions important to water quality.
Promotes water information strategies that reduce uncertainty or lower the costs of monitoring.
Advances the standardization and practice of methods evaluation and validation and data comparability.
Advances the practices of data management and the public’s access to water quality data.
Provides leadership in developing a framework, network and/or forum for gathering and/or communicating water quality monitoring information and results.
