Past Award Recipients

National Distinguished Service Award Winners

National SYP Award Winners

Student Paper and Poster Award Winners

2024 National Distinguished Service Award Winner

Lizabeth Nicholls and Robert (Bob) Halliday

2024 National SYP Award Winner

Cristy Guo

2024 Student Award Winners

2024 Hoskin Scientific Student Poster Award

Peter Wagner

Title: Exploring the Influence of Calibration Choices on Signature Representation in Conceptual Hydrological Models

2024 CSHS Bill Stolte Student Paper Award

2024 CSHS Undergraduate Presentation Award

Megan Elkin

Title: Experimental Study of Subsequent Debris Flood Events on an Alluvial Fan

2024 CSHS Ric Soulis Student Paper Award

Tianze Pang

Paper Title: Coastal Flood and Climate Change: Impacts and Responses

2023 Awards

Students are encouraged to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentations at the 2023 National Conference. Students whose abstracts are selected for oral or poster presentations are eligible to enter the 2023 CSHS Student Paper Awards and the 2023 Hoskin Scientific Poster Award.

More information about the application process for the 2023 CSHS Bill Stolte Student Paper Award and the 2023 CSHS Ric Soulis Student Paper Award are available now. CSHS has updated the instructions for the preparation of the paper since 2022, so please review the updated instructions.

Information about the 2023 Hoskin Scientific Award will be posted shortly.

Download Information on the 2023 CSHS Student Paper Awards

The deadline to submit your paper for the CSHS Student Paper Award has been EXTENDED! The new deadline is MAY 15th, so be sure to submit yours ASAP!

Download Information on the 2023 Hoskin Scientific Student Poster Awards

Past Years’ Awards

National Distinguished Service Awards
Year	Name
2023	Anne-Marie Laroche
2022	Sean Douglas
2021	André St. Hilaire
2020	Eric-Lorne Blais
2019	Jennifer Harker
2018	Dave Murray
2017	Monica Wagner
2016	Andre Carpentier
2015	Sharon Gurney
2014	Robert Metcalfe
2013	Russell Boals
2012	Brent Paterson
2011	Dr. Abdel-Razek Kamir Abdel-Zahir
2010	Valerie Cameron; Adrian Chantler
2009	Jean Pierre Fau; Ralph Silver
2008	Ron Coley
2007	Ed Dean
2006	Cdn Great Lakes Treaty Negotiating Team
2005	David Mortin (posthumous)
2004	Dr Michael Slivitzky
2003	Mike Currie
2002	Nes Mudry
2001	Bruce Mitchell
2000	Dr Harry Hill; Brad Fairley
1999	Dr Chang Lin; Dr Donald Walker
1998	Robin McNeil
1997	Rick Ross
1996	Pierrette Sinclair
1995	Dale Bray
1994	G Hugh Mackay
1993	Carl Anderson
1992	Ed Watt
1991	Wally Nicholaichuk
1990	Ken Dodson
1989	Kersi Davar; John Jones
1988	Charles Hazen
1987	Tom Weber
1986	James Bauer
1985	Bert Hargrave
1984	Tom Carter
1983	Harold W Pope

Manitoba Distinguished Service Award
Year	Name
2020	John Towle

National SYP Award
Year	Name
2023	Cristy Guo
2022	Sylvie Spraakman
2021	Jean-Luc Martel

Student Paper and Poster Awards
Year	Name	Institution	Award	Field of Study
2022	Simon Lin	University of Waterloo	Hoskin Scientific Student Poster Award	Using event-driven metrics for model-based hydrologic change detection in a northern hardwood fores.
2022	Sergio A. Barbosa	Brigham Young University	CSHS Bill Stolte Student Paper Award	Assessment of groundwater storage change and recharge using GRACE data in two selected aquifers in Niger, West Africa
2022	Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagúna	University of Waterloo	CSHS Ric Soulis Student Paper Award	The profile likelihood method with improved computational efficiency and numerical stability
2021	Véronique Dubos	INRS, Québec, Qc	Hoskin Scientific Student Poster Award	Lake Sampling in Nunavik
2021	Andrea Mellado Cusicahua	Polytechnique Montréal	CSHS Bill Stolte Student Paper Award	Towards a Fully Lagrangian model for river ice dynamics You can learn more about Andrea’s research work here and here
2021	Evan Arbuckle	University of Alberta	CSHS Ric Soulis Student Paper Award	Integrated Hydropower Modelling in Canada with Subnational Detail You can learn more about Evan’s research work here, here, here, and here.