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Saul B. Salia Best Student Paper Award
The Saul B. Saila Best Student Paper Award (initiated in 1989) is currently a
$100 award presented at each meeting. A minimum of three committee members
or members-at-large judge the papers using the standardized student paper evaluation form
from the AFS Education Section. The Professionalism Committee Chair coordinates judging
and tallies the scores. If the award is given, the winner is typically announced at the end of the
meeting and awarded a check by the Secretary-Treasurer. A congratulatory letter prepared by
the Chair of the Professionalism Committee and certificate prepared by the parent society are
mailed to award winners.
Available for download and viewing are:
 Scoring criteria
Scoring sheet
Previous Recipients
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About
Saul B. Saila
A resident of Hope Valley, RI, Saul B.
Saila received a B.S. in
agronomy from the University of Rhode Island, M.S. in limnology, and Ph.D. in
fishery biology from Cornell University. He came to URI as an assistant
professor of marine biology in 1956, becaming a
professor of oceanography and zoology in 1967. He has been the
major professor for more than 65 graduate students at URI and has
written more than 100 papers for professional, peer-reviewed journals.
Retiring from teaching in 1988, he still continues to conduct research
throughout the world. Saul was the recipient of the prestigious
Award of Excellence by the American Fisheries Society in 2001.
This award is the oldest major AFS award and the most prestigious
presented to an individual. He also received the AFS Outstanding
Educator Award in 1989. In 1994, he received the Oscar E. Sette Award for outstanding Marine Fisheries
Biologist from the Marine Fisheries Section of AFS. |
Professor Saila has
enriched the field of fishery science through innovative research and dedication
to education in fifty years of professional service. He has pioneered the
application of new analytical techniques in fisheries research, placing new
tools in the hands of researchers that have substantially advanced the
discipline resulting in more than one hundred scientific papers and reports. He
was an early proponent of the development and utilization of quantitative models
in fisheries applications. Recognizing the revolution that computers would
bring to the field from an early date, he served as the director of the first
computer center established at the University of Rhode Island, while continuing
in his role as professor in the departments of Oceanography and Zoology.
Modeled on the agricultural experiment stations of Land Grant Colleges, he
established the Marine Experiment Station at URI. He later contributed to
research areas as diverse as multispecies and ecosystem modeling, complex
nonlinear dynamics, and uncertainty theory.
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