This is an annual award, established by the Canadian Society of Zoologists to recognize the author of an outstanding Ph. D. Thesis in Zoology submitted to a Canadian University.

Terms of Reference

Objectives

This is an annual award, established by the Canadian Society of Zoologists to recognize the author of an outstanding Ph. D. Thesis in Zoology submitted to a Canadian University.

Award

The recipient of the award will be invited to present a lecture on the subject of the dissertation to the annual conference. He/she will be presented with a commemorative scroll at the time. In order to facilitate attendance of the recipient at the meeting, reasonable expenses for air travel at minimum rates and all accommodation and meals at the meeting will be paid by the Society, up to a maximum of $1,500. When a recipient is located at a great distance from the site of the Annual General Meeting, it may be necessary to defer or waive the presentation or lecture. The Executive may consider applications by the recipient for increased expense reimbursement.

Source of Prize

Funded through ZET.

Frequency of Availability

Maximum of one per year. The award need not be made every year.

Nomination Procedures

Nominations are to be made to the Chair of the Cameron Award Committee. For nomination, a thesis must have been accepted at a Canadian University within the period of July 1 of the year preceding the nomination deadline to June 30 of the year of the nomination deadline. Only one thesis may be nominated by a department, though more than one department in an university may nominate a thesis.

A nominated thesis should be accompanied by a joint letter from the Chair of the Department and the Supervisor indicating their reasons for the nomination. Theses should be saved in pdf format and emailed to the Chair of the Cameron Award (see below). Thesis files larger than 10 Mb should be sent by mail on a single CD or DVD to the Chair of the Cameron Award.

Application Deadline

15 August of each year.

Cameron Award Committee

The T.W.M. Cameron Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Committee shall be composed of four members who shall be appointed, in alternating years, for a three-year term. The judges for the Cameron Award (the Committee) be comprised of one representative from each Section of the CSZ, nominated by the section chair, to serve a term of 3 years, and that these positions be filled as current members of the present committee retire from Sections not presently represented on the Committee, until each Section has representation. It shall ensure that the call for submission for Ph.D. theses is mailed to all Biology/Zoology Department Heads or Chairs in Canada and is included in The Society Bulletin.

It shall ensure that regulations are followed and shall judge all submitted theses. Its recommendation for the Award shall be submitted to the Secretary two weeks prior to the December Executive and Council Meeting.

Chair:

Tetsuto Miyashita
Research Scientist, Palaeobiology
Canadian Museum of Nature
PO Box 3443, Station D
Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6P4, Canada

Adjunct Professor (Biology), the University of Ottawa
Adjunct Professor (Earth Sciences), Carleton University

Email: TMiyashita@nature.ca

Awardees

• 2024 - Hang Cheng, University of Ottawa. Mitochondria: Hubs of hypoxia-tolerance in naked mole rats

• 2023 - Jackie Lebenzon, Western University. Mechanisms of diapause and cold tolerance in the Colorado potato beetle

• 2022 – Catherine Ivy, McMaster University. High-altitude adaptation and the control of breathing in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus)

• 2021 – Cayleih Roberston, McMaster University. A tale of mice and mountais: developmental thermoregulatory adaptations in high-altitude North American deer mice.

• 2020 – Till Harter, University of British Columbia. The functional significance of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase for cardiovascular oxygen transport in teleosts.

• 2019 – Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Alberta. Development, anatomy, and phylogenetic relationships of jawless

  vertebrates and tests of hypotheses about early vertebrate evolution.

• 2018 – Laura V. Ferguson, University of Western Ontario. Thermal biology of insect immunity and host-microbe interactions.