David Cushing Prize
The prize honours the memory of David Cushing, Founding Editor of Journal of Plankton Research. It is awarded annually for the best paper by an early career stage scientist published in the journal during the previous year, where the first author is aged 30 or younger. The prize helps foster the interesting and high-quality papers by young scientists that David Cushing so actively supported.
2025 Winner
The 2025 David Cushing prize, for the best paper published in 2024, has been awarded to Ashley Tripp for her paper with co-authors Hannah M Murphy, Gail K Davoren.
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Past Cushing Prize Winners
2024 Rose-Lynne Savage
Evidence for adaptive strategies in larval capelin on the northeastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada
Co-authors Jacqueline L Maud, Colleen T E Kellogg, Brian P V Hunt, Vera Tai
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2023 Tyler Butts
Contribution of zooplankton nutrient recycling and effects on phytoplankton size structure in a hypereutrophic reservoir
Co-authors Eric K. Moody and Grace M. Wilkinson
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2022 Grace Cawley
The effect of phytoplankton properties on the ingestion of marine snow by Calanus pacificus
Co-authors Moira Décima, Andrea Mast and Jennifer C. Prairie
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2021 Corinne Burns
Interannual variability of diet composition and prey preference of larval redfish (Sebastes spp.) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Co-authors Félix Lauzon, Stéphane Plourde, Pascal Sirois and Dominique Robert
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2019 Stephan Wietkamp
Molecular detection and quantification of the azaspiracid-producing dinoflagellate Amphidoma languida (Amphidomataceae, Dinophyceae)
Co-authors Urban Tillmann, Dave Clarke, and Kerstin Toebe
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2018 Campbell R. Hathaway
Quantitative measurement of the optomotor response in free-swimming Daphnia
Co-author Jeffry L Dudycha
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2017 Barbara D'Amario
Coccolithophore haploid and diploid distribution patterns in the Mediterranean Sea: can a haplo-diploid life cycle be advantageous under climate change?
Co-authors Patrizia Ziveri, Michaël Grelaud, Angela Oviedo and Martina Kralj
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2016 Marie-Pier Hébert
Linking zooplankton communities to ecosystem functioning: toward an effect-trait framework
Co-authors Beatrix Beisner and Roxane Maranger
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2015 Bingzhang Chen
Patterns of thermal limits of phytoplankton
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2014 Laura Brooke Harred
Predicting harmful algal blooms: a case study with Dinophysis ovum in the Gulf of Mexico
Co-author Lisa Campbell
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2013 Cui Guo
Effect of East Asian aerosol enrichment on microbial community composition in the South China Sea
Co-authors Hongmei Jing, Liangliang Kong and Hongbin Liu
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2012 Cody Johnson
Copepod dominance contributes to phytoplankton nitrogen deficiency in lakes during periods of low precipitation
Co-author Chris Luecke
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2011 Gabriel Reygondeau
Water column stability and Calanus finmarchicus
Co-author Gregory Beaugrand
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2010 Sam Fey
Zooplankton grazing of Gloeotrichia echinulata and associated life history consequences” Co-authors Zachary Mayer, Stacy Davis and Kathryn Cottingham
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2009 Luiz Felipe Mendes Gusmaõ
Sex ratios, intersexuality and sex change in copepods
Co-author David McKinnon
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2008 Catharina Alves-de-Souza
Functional groups in marine phytoplankton assemblages dominated by diatoms in fjords of southern Chile
Co-authors María Teresa González and José Luis Iriarte
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