FLATHEAD LAKE – The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation has honored Rachel Malison, a 91次元 Flathead Lake Biological Station assistant research professor, with the foundation’s prestigious Award in Field Biology.
The foundation’s Awards in Field Biology provide support for scientists working at critical moments in their careers to explore, test and help the world as we face both great challenges and opportunities.
Only five awards are made each year from nominations received from around the globe. Each awarded scientist receives $100,000 in unrestricted funds supporting their individual work, elevating their diverse perspectives and enabling them to commit time to observation and experimentation that helps us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
“Dr. Rachel Malison is a consummate field biologist whose insightful and extensive work in stream ecosystems, ranging from stonefly ecophysiology to the impacts of beavers and wildfire to water quality impacts of pesticides, is imaginative and impactful,” said FLBS Director Jim Elser. “Not only that, but Dr. Malison is a wonderful mentor of students and interns who provides an inspiring example for all of us here at the bio station. We are so proud to see her receive this well-deserved recognition.”
Launched in 2020, the awards provide scientists support at critical junctures in their careers so they can focus on mastery and creativity, elevate often underrepresented perspectives to problem-solving and promote progress in the biological sciences through individual research focused on our natural world.
In the selection process, nominators from around the world confidentially identified scientists for consideration and a committee selected winners based on impact in the field, originality and the momentum an award could provide at a critical career point.
The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation powers people who explore and ask, teach and try, conserve and connect, and create and captivate. Its funding supports individual scientists, teachers, conservationists and creators whose diverse perspectives enable us to discover new things about the world. Learn more about this foundation and its work at
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Contact: Rachel Malison, FLBS assistant research professor, 406-872-4518, rachel.malison@umontana.edu; Jim Elser, FLBS director, 406-872-4500, jim.elser@flbs.umt.edu.