Early Career Members

The (ECMC) serves many functions:

• A voice for Early Career Members (ECMs) within the ACS societies and on federal policy topics
• Develop Early Career programming for ACS Annual Meeting
• Serve as the selection committee for the Early Career Professional Awards
• Prepare an article for the CSA News on a monthly basis on topics relevant to ECMs
• Obtain input and develop recommendations on ways to better serve Early Career Members beyond the activities at the annual meetings

Early Career Committee Guidelines

• Membership benefits
• Early Career Articles, written by Early Career Members!
• ASA, CSSA, SSSA committee opportunities
• Career opportunities
• Science Policy Congressional Fellowship Program
• U.S. National Committee for Soil Science
• Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program

2019

• ASA - Matt Yost, Utah State Univ.
• CSSA - Cody Creech, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln
• SSSA - Vilim Filipović, Univ. of Zagreb

2018

• ASA - Ignacio A. Ciampitti, Kansas State Univ.
• CSSA - Ignacio A. Ciampitti, Kansas State Univ.
• SSSA - Asim Biswas, Univ. of Guelph

2017

• ASA Early Career Professional Award - Hardev Singh Sandhu, Univ. of Florida
• CSSA Young Crop Scientist Award - James D. McCurdy, Mississippi State Univ.
• SSSA Early Career Professional Award - Trenton L. Roberts, Univ. of Arkansas

2016

• ASA Early Career Professional Award - Patricio Grassini, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
• CSSA Young Crop Scientist Award - James Brosnan, Univ. of Tennessee - Knoxville
• SSSA Early Career Professional Award - Michael Castellano, Iowa State Univ.

2015

• ASA Early Career Professional Award - Jason de Koff, Tennessee State Univ.
• CSSA Young Crop Scientist Award - Robert Stupar, Univ. of Minnesota
• SSSA Early Career Professional Award - Mark Reiter, Virginia Tech

2014

• ASA Early Career Professional Award - D. Brian Arnall, Oklahoma State Univ.
• CSSA Young Crop Scientist Award - Seth Murray, Texas A&M Univ.
• SSSA Early Career Professional Award - Dorivar Ruiz Diaz, Kansas State Univ.

2013

• ASA Early Career Professional Award - Maria Guadalupe Salas-Fernandez, Iowa State Univ.
• CSSA Young Crop Scientist Award - Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT
• SSSA Early Career Professional Award - Joshua Heitman, North Carolina State Univ.

2012

• ASA Early Career Professional Award - Robert Stupar, Univ. of Minnesota
• CSSA Young Crop Scientist Award - Twain Butler, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
• SSSA Early Career Professional Award - Jason Warren, Oklahoma State Univ.

Early Career Professional Award Winners (2006-2011)

Before 2012, there was one award for all three Societies

2011 - Chad Godsey, Oklahoma State Univ.

2010 - Jianming Yu, Kansas State Univ. 

2009 - Todd Campbell, USDA-ARS Coastal Plains Soil, Water, and Plant Research Center

2008 - Palle Pedersen, Iowa State Univ.

2007 - Jeff Edwards, Oklahoma State Univ.

2006 - Joel Pedersen, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison