At the suggestion of early career scientist, Dr. Lynda Bunting, and with the full support of the ASLO Awards committee, the ASLO Board voted in February 2015 to rename the Citation for Scientific Excellence as the “Victoria J. Bertics Memorial Award for Aquatic Science” in honor of a brilliant young scientist who lost a decade-long battle with cancer in 2013. Victoria (Vicky) Bertics was the 2014 recipient of the ASLO Citation for Scientific Excellence (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lob.201423246/epdf). As noted in her nomination by Dr. Peter Girguis and colleagues, Vicky-s interest in oceanography began at the University of California - Berkeley, where as a undergraduate she worked on the distribution of foraminifera within the Monterey Bay Canyon. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California, where her research focused on the role of bioturbation in nitrogen and sulfur cycling in marine sediments. Later, she received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work in Germany on the coupling of on nitrogen and sulfur cycling in marine oxygen minimum zones. She was then awarded a competitive C-DEBI fellowship to work at Harvard University on carbon and nitrogen cycling in the deep subsurface biosphere. Vicky succumbed to cancer just one month after starting her C-DEBI postdoctoral fellowship. To provide more information about Dr. Bertics, ASLO will be producing a biography of her life and career in a future volume of the ASLO Bulletin. The new description of the award is as follows. “The Victoria J. Bertics Memorial Award for Aquatic Science recognizes ASLO members who could not fulfill their career potential because of early death or disability. Initiated in 1987, the Award was originally called the ASLO Citation for Scientific Excellence, but was renamed in honor of Victoria Bertics, a brilliant young scientist whose career was sadly curtailed by illness. Nominees can be at any career stage and have, in the past, ranged from post-doctoral fellows to senior scientists. Nominations should be made directly to the ASLO President and are considered by the entire Board. Nomination procedure is less formal than with other awards, but should include a statement of the nominee-s aspirations and achievements. Further details may be obtained from the ASLO President.” It-s time again for the annual ASLO awards nominations! As always, ASLO awards provide a great opportunity to recognize outstanding individual performance and to highlight accomplishments of the aquatic science research community. This year, the deadline for nominations is October 16, 2015. Please take the time to nominate your colleagues for these awards. Nominations are short, simple to make, and can be submitted electronically via our dedicated online nomination form at www.aslo.org/forms/awards.html. For further information, please have a look at the awards pages on the ASLO website, or contact ASLO Awards Committee Chair, Kimberly Wickland, via e-mail kpwick@usgs.gov. The ASLO Awards Committee wishes to announce a correction to the citation for Hilary G. Close, the 2015 recipient of the Raymond L. Lindeman Award for an outstanding paper written by a young aquatic scientist. Dr. Close-s nomination was made by both Elizabeth A. Canuel (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) and Karin Björkman (University of Hawaii). The Awards Committee apologizes for errors in the original citation. Peter Leavitt, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and Society, University of Regina; Peter.Leavitt@uregina.ca