The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) recently honored Dr. William V. Sobczak, a former IES graduate student with Dr. Stuart E. G. Findlay, for his outstanding contributions as a young scientist. Sobczak received ASLO's prestigious Raymond Lindeman Award for his paper, "Bioavailability of organic matter in a highly disturbed estuary: The role of detrital and algal resources," which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (99:8101-8105). Dr. Sobczak is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Presented annually, the Raymond Lindeman Award acknowledges an outstanding paper authored by a young aquatic scientist. The distinction was created in memory of Raymond L. Lindeman (1915-1942), who is best known for his posthumously published Ecology paper on tropic flow. This paper has since become instrumental in our understanding of how energy flows though plant and animal communities.

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