2026 Meeting

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The 2026 SES Meeting was a success with great science and a lot of fun. Thank you all for being part of this. Student awards for talks and posters will be announced soon!

Lost and Found: A few light jackets, and some computer dongles and thumb drives were left in the barn. Please email Kruminsj@montclair.edu, and we can find a way to get that back to you.

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Congratulations to our Award Winners!

• Career: Dr. Katalin (Kathy) Szlavecz

  • Affiliation: Research Professor, Morton K. Blaustein Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

• Early Career:  Dr. Joseph “Joe” Edwards

  • Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Service: Dr. Emma Aronson.

  • Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, the University of California at Riverside.

• Best student paper: 

  • First place: Brooke E. Propson for “Gains in soil carbon storage under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation”

    • Full citation: Propson, B. E., Zak, D. R., Classen, A. T., Burton, A. J., & Freedman, Z. B. (2024). Gains in soil carbon storage under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation. Ecology, 105(11), e4444.

    • Awardee affiliation at time of publishing: Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

  • Honorable mention: Daniel Petticord for “Foliar phosphorus concentrations in Bahiagrass are well-predicted by the abundance of a Fusarium taxa”

    • Full citation: Petticord, D. F., Zhi, R., Boughton, E. H., Guo, Y., Liao, H. L., Reyes, A. L., ... & Sparks, J. P. (2026). Foliar phosphorus concentrations in Bahiagrass are well-predicted by the abundance of a Fusarium taxa. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 214, 110049.

    • Awardee affiliation at time of publishing: Department of Ecology and Evolution, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA