Early Career Researcher Paper Competition
​Due to the great success of our new ECR award in 2019, the RTS will again be hosting an early career researcher paper competition at the annual AAG meeting in order to recognize our outstanding scholars at all levels. The prize will be a cash award of $300.
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Eligibility Criteria & Deadlines
To be eligible, you must

• held a PhD for no more than 5 years  by the AAG’s official abstract submission date
• ​submit a research paper - Deadline: February 21st

Members of the AAG-RTS board will review each submission.

*Participants are encouraged to submit a single-authored paper. However, we will accept papers co-authored which are accompanied by a short summary of each author’s contribution to the paper on the cover page.

Papers should be submitted to AAG-RTS Chairs, Mary Mostafanezhad (mostafan@hawaii.edu) & Elizabeth Vidon (esvidon@esf.edu). In the subject heading please write: Early Career Researcher Award Submission

Please note that the the maximum word count is 10,000 including the abstract, manuscript, tables and references.

Instructions for paper submission
Please also include a Cover Page, with the following information:

1. Name
2. Affiliation
3. Paper title
4. ​Date and awarding institution of PhD
5. Co-author contributions (if applicable)

*Please note that for the 2022 paper competition, your paper does NOT need to be presented at the AAG Annual Conference. ​