Lab Awards
2025 – 3MT Second Place winner: Using sensor fish to examine fish friendliness of flood pumps – Hollis Kinnard
2025 – Peter Wall Legacy Award Recipient – Kaitlyn Zinn
2024 – Peter Wall Legacy Award Recipient – Stephen Johnston
2024 – Best student presentation at the annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society (Washington / BC / Idaho joint Chapter meeting) – Adam Kanigan
2023 – First prize, three-minute oral presentation, Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference – Patrick Zubick
2023 – Second prize in Faculty of Forestry, UBC Three Minute Thesis competition, Zach Sherker. Fish and Floods: Effectiveness monitoring for floodgate remediations to improve salmon migrations
2022 – Best Graduate Student TA Award (Jordan Burke Memorial Award) – David Moulton
2020 – Governor General’s Gold Medal + University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work (2020) – Andrea Reid
2019 – Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2018) – Faculty of Forestry, Anna Smith.
2019 – Runner-up, Best PhD thesis award (2018), Faculty of Forestry – Art Bass
2018 – Third prize UBC Vancouver Campus Three Minute Thesis competition, Anna Smith. Zinc Stinks! Olfactory inhibition in juvenile coho salmon
2018 – First prize in Faculty of Forestry, UBC Three Minute Thesis competition, Anna Smith. Zinc Stinks! Olfactory inhibition in juvenile coho salmon.
2018 – First prize in 5 minute presentation division – Anna Smith. Zink Stinks! Olfactory inhibition in juvenile coho salmon. ToxTalks Symposium. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2018 – Anna Smith (Winner) and Allison Hebert (Runner-up) – Peter Larkin Award for Excellence in Fisheries at a Canadian Institution (MSc level)
2018 – Best MSc thesis award (2017), Faculty of Forestry – Steve Healy
2017 – Runner up (highly commended) for Elton Prize (best paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology by an Early Career Researcher) – Nathan Furey. Piscivorous fish exhibit temperature-influenced binge feeding during an annual prey pulse. Journal of Animal Ecology. For a virtual issue with all commended papers (freely available), click here.
2016 – Runner-up (highly commended) Elton Prize – Nathan Furey – (top paper published by an early-career researcher at the Journal of Animal Ecology)
2016 – Royal Society of Canada Alice Wilson Award – Dr Aimee Houde
2016 – Co-winner of Peter A. Larkin Award at PhD level – Nathan Furey
2015 – Best Student Presentation – Mandy Banet. Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference. February 28 2015.
2015 – Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award – Faculty of Forestry, Nathan Furey.
2015 – Best Student Presentation (Honorable Mention) – Vanessa Minke-Martin, American Fisheries Society Washington-British Columbia Chapter Annual General Meeting, Richmond, BC, Canada.
2015 – Winner ‘Best Student Paper’ – Nolan Bett. American Fisheries Society Washington-British Columbia Chapter Annual General Meeting, Richmond, BC, Canada. March 16-19. Bett, N., Hinch, S.
2015. Conspecific attraction during spawning migration of sockeye salmon.
2014 – Runner up for Steven Berkeley Marine Conservation Fellowship Award – Nathan Furey
2014 – Western Division (American Fisheries Society) Eugene Maughan Student Scholarship – Natalie Sopinka
2013 – Winner ‘Best Student Paper’ – Natalie Sopinka. American Fisheries Society Washington-British Columbia Chapter Annual General Meeting, Lake Chelan, Washington, USA. March 25-28. Sopinka, N., Middleton C., Lesko M., Patterson D., Hinch S. 2013. Intergenerational effects of stress in Fraser River sockeye salmon.
2013 – Vanier Graduate Scholarship – Nathan Furey. UBC Press Release.
2013 – Runner up (MSc level) for Peter Larkin Award for Excellence in Fisheries at a Canadian Institution – Nicholas Burnett
2012 – Winner Smith Conservation Award for Student Paper with Best Application of Behaviour to Fish Conservation – Natalie Sopinka. Conference on the Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes, Windsor, ON, Canada, June 17-21, 2012. Sopinka N.M., Middleton C., Patterson D., Hinch S. 2012. Stressed out salmon: effects of parental stress on sockeye salmon offspring.
2012 – Hinch lab PhD candidate, Natalie Sopinka, wins UBC’s 3-minute thesis competition (Coverage in UBC Faculty of Forestry Branchlines Publication and on UBC Faculty of Forestry website)
2012 – Gold Medal Best MSc thesis (2011), UBC – Jenn Burt
2012 – Best PhD thesis award (2011), Faculty of Science – Erika Eliason
2010 – Best Teaching Assistant Award, Faculty of Forestry, UBC – Jenn Burt
2010 – Runner-up ‘Best Student Paper’ award – Mike Donaldson. American Fisheries Society Washington-British Columbia Chapter Annual General Meeting, Nanaimo, British Columbia, March 2-4,
2010. Donaldson, M.R., Hinch, S.G., Patterson, D.A., Cooke, S.J., Raby, G., Thomas, J.O., Hills, J., Thompson, L.A., Miller, K.M., Lotto, A., Robichaud, D., English K., Farrell, A.P. 2010. Fisheries and handling-related stressors on adult Pacific salmon physiology, behaviour and survival.
2010 – Best Poster award, Mike Donaldson, Tim Clark, and Marika Gale. American Fisheries Society Washington-British Columbia Chapter Annual General Meeting, Nanaimo, British Columbia, March 2-4,
2010. Donaldson, M.R. Clark,T.D., Hinch, S.G., Cooke, S.J., Patterson, D.A., Gale, M.K., Frappell, P.B., Farrell, A.P. 2010. Physiological responses and recovery of adult coho salmon to simulated predator and fisheries encounters.
2010 – Honourable Mention, Best Student Paper award – Jenn Burt. Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference. Bamfield, BC. March 5-7, 2010. Burt. J., Hinch, S., Patterson, D. Family Matters: parental and temperature influences on the early life survival, morphology and burst swim performance of sockeye salmon.