In late 2022, the SCAS leadership devised a plan to honour people who have made significant contributions or enabled the formation of the new Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences. The idea was to simply recognize people with a lapel pin that would be presented at the annual business meeting. The recipients would be recognized on the SCAS website on a page recognizing those for exceptional service to SCAS (name and year of award would be listed).

Criteria

• Members can only be honoured once.
• Candidates can be nominated by SCAS members in good standing. Nominators should take into consideration the following when preparing a nomination:
• Candidates should have lead or contributed a substantial amount to an EXCEPTIONAL initiative on behalf of the society; or,
• Candidates should have consistently performed at an OUTSTANDING level of service for the society over a period of time, typically by serving in an officer or committee chair role.
• Nominations should be a paragraph detailing the candidates contribution(s) and need not be lengthy (<500 words). Nominations must be submitted to the president by January 10th each year.

Descision and Presentation

The current president, the vice president, and the chair of the Awards committee will review nominations and present a motion to the executive committee at the annual business meeting listing successful nominations and their contribution(s).

Pins will then be immediately presented to any successful nominations who are in attendence. The secretary will mail pins to any successful nominations not present at the meeting.