Each year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) honors with election as AAAS Fellow “those of its members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science are scientifically or socially distinguished.” Among the scientists honored at the Fellows Forum at the 161st AAAS national meeting in Atlanta, Georgia February 18, 1995 were both LTER and Land-Margin Ecosystem Research (LMER) Program PIs.
JUDY L. MEYER, Coweeta LTER PI and current Ecological Society of America President. For research in aquatic ecology that explored nutrient and organic matter dynamics and the importance of microbial food webs in rivers and streams.
ROBERT A. WHARTON, JR., McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER PI and Director of the Desert Research Institute, Nevada. For pioneering studies in Antarctic ecology, particularly for research on the biogeochemistry of lakes in the Antarctic.
CHARLES A. SIMENSTAD, Columbia River LMER PI and Director of the Wetland Ecosystem Team at the Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington. For important advances in wetland and estuarine/coastal ecology research, especially in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and for conception and direction of the interdisciplinary, long-term Columbia River Land-Margin Ecosystem Research Project.