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Gerald W. Prescott Award
The Prescott Award is given to recognize scholarly work in English in the form of a published book or monograph devoted to phycology published in the previous years. Recipients are determined by the G.W. Prescott Award Committee.
Past Recipients
- 2011 — Ionel Ciugulea and Richard E. Triemer. 2010. A Color Atlas of Photosynthetic Euglenoids. Michigan State University Press. AND Elizabeth Harris 2009. The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook (Second Edition): Introduction to Chlamydomonas and Its Laboratory Use. Academic Press.
- 2008 — Paul G. Falkowski and John A. Raven. 2007 Aquatic Photosynthesis (Second Edition). Princeton University Press.
- 2005 — Isabella Abbott and John Huisman. 2004. Marine Green and Brown Algae of the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Press.
- 2002 — Diane S. Littler and Mark M. Littler. 2000. Caribbean Reef Plants: An Identification Guide to the Reef Plants of the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and Gulf of Mexico. OffShore Graphics Inc., Washington DC. 542 pp. [725 underwater photographs, 1645 line drawings.]
- 2001 — Jirí Komárek and Konstantinos Anagnostidis. 1999. Cyanoprokaryota 1. Teil: Chroococcales [In: Ettl, H., Gärtner, G., Heynig, H., Mollenhauer, D. (eds.) SuBwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 19/1.] Gustav Fischer, Jena. 548 pp.
- 1999 — H. Bryan S. Womersley (with co-authors Elise M. Wollaston, Robert N. Baldock, John M. Huisman and Murray J. Parsons). 1998. The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Rhodophyta, Part IIIC. Ceramiales - Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae. 535 pp.
- 1997 — Hilda Canter-Lund and John W. G. Lund. 1995. Freshwater Algae: Their Microscopic World Explored. BioPress Ltd, Bristol. 360 pp.
- 1997 — Christian van den Hoek, David G. Mann and H. M. Jahns. 1995. Algae: An Introduction to Phycology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 623 pp.
- 1995 — Max H. Hommersand and Christine A. Maggs. 1993. Seaweeds of the British Isles. vol. 2 (part 3A): Ceramiales. HMSO, The Natural History Museum, London. 444 pp.
- 1994 — Sigrid Berger and M. J. Kaever. 1992. Dasycladales: An Illustrated Monograph of a Fascinating Algal Order. Georg. Thermal Stuttgart/Oxford University Press, NY. 247 pp.
- 1993 — Craig W. Schneider and Richard B. Searles. 1991. Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States: Cape Hatteras to Cape Canaveral. Duke University Press, Durham, NC. 553 pp.
- 1991 — R. Round, R. Crawford and David Mann. 1990. The Diatoms: Biology and Morphology of the Genera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. 747 pp.
- 1989 — William J. Woelkerling. 1988. The Coralline Red Algae: An Analysis of the Genera and Subfamilies of Nongeniculate Corallinaceae. British Museum (Natural History), London, and Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 268 pp.
- 1987 — Harold C. Bold and Michael J. Wynne. 1985. Introduction to the Algae: Structure and Reproduction. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 720 pp.
- 1985 — H. Bryan S. Womersley. 1984. The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part 1. D.J. Woolman. Government Printer, Adelaide, South Australia. 329 pp.
- 1983 — Matthew J. Dring. 1983.The Biology of Marine Plants. Edward Arnold, Baltimore, MD. 208 pp.