In June 2002, Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER’s J. Morgan Grove was among the recipients of the 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s highest honor at the outset of an independent research career.
The Awards, established in 1996, honor the most promising young researchers. Eight federal departments and agencies, which join together annually to nominate young scientists and engineers whose work is of greatest benefit to the nominating agency’s mission, administer the awards. Participating agencies award these young scientists and engineers up to five years of funding to further their research in support of critical government missions.
"The Forest Service, Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, NSF, LTER, and IES can all take credit for this," says Grove, who collected the award personally from President George W. Bush in a July 12 ceremony. "Thank you to these organizations for the opportunities they have provided me."