From the society: Announcement: The MacArthur & Wilson Award

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membership corner ISSN 1948‐6596 from the society Announcement: The MacArthur & Wilson Award The Board of Directors of the International Bio‐ geography Society is pleased to announce that this award will be presented to Miguel Bastos Araujo at the society’s biennial meeting in Miami, Florida, 10‐12 January 2013. The award, which is sponsored by Frontiers of Biogeography, is being made for the first time at the Miami meeting. It recognizes an early‐career individual (or alterna‐ tively a pair of collaborators) for a notable, inno‐ vative contribution to biogeography and is named in honor of Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson. Miguel Araujo was nominated by two groups of IBS members for his work, with a wide range of collaborators globally, on the impacts of global change on species distributions and for his contribution to the conservation science litera‐ ture. A fuller account of his work will feature in a future edition of Frontiers following the presenta‐ tion of the award. The Board notes with thanks the work of the MacArthur & Wilson Award committee: Pauline Ladiges, Christine Maggs, Albert Philli‐ more, Robert E. Ricklefs, Brett R. Riddle, Robert J. Whittaker (chair). Robert J. Whittaker 1 and George C. Stevens 2 Miguel Araujo at the Natural History Museum of Madrid, where he works. Picture by Bruno Rascao. IBS Past President, Chair of the MacArthur & Wilson Award. robert.whittaker@ouce.ox.ac.uk IBS Vice President for Development and Awards. georgecstevens@hotmail.com Did you know? The International Biogeography Society makes three awards: the Alfred Russel Wallace Award for lifetime achievement in biogeography research, the new MacArthur‐Wilson Award for achievement by a young investigator in biogeography, and Honorary Lifetime Mem‐ bership, which is given on the occasion of a special anniversary or event involving a prominent biogeographer. All IBS members are eligible and encouraged to nominate deserving biogeogra‐ phers who may, or may not, currently be members of the society themselves. For more informa‐ tion about the awards, see http://www.biogeography.org/html/About%20IBS/awards.html © 2012 the authors; journal compilation © 2012 The International Biogeography Society — frontiers of biogeography 4.2, 2012