Science Achievement Award presented to Botany staff

From Plant Press, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2020.

The National Museum of Natural History began awarding Science Achievement Awards in 2003. The awards recognize exceptional scientific publications in natural history. On November 21, 2019, in close consultation with the museum’s Senate of Scientists, an interdisciplinary review committee recognized the outstanding work of staff scientists for five publications, each published in 2017. Awards for publications from 2018 and 2019 will be announced later this year.

Among the awards, Eric Schuettpelz, Rebecca Dikow, Sylvia Orli, Vicki Funk, and Laurence Dorr received recognition for their paper, “Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections” (Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e21139; http://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e21139).

NMNH Sant Director Kirk Johnson presents one of five 2017 Science Achievement Awards to Sylvia Orli, Eric Schuettpelz, Warren Wagner (accepting on behalf of Vicki Funk), Rebecca Dikow, and Laurence Dorr. (photo by Lucia RM Martino, Smithsonian Institution)