Best Paper Award for Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2014
Certified Senior Ecologist, Ecological Society of America, 2003
Recognized as Extraordinary Commerce Employee, 2002
Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Leadership, 2001
NOAA Administrator’s Award, 1989, 2003
Outstanding or Sustained Superior Performance Awards, 1977, 1981-82, 1984-2004
Draper High School Hall of Fame, 1992
Best Paper Award for Journal of Great Lakes Research, 1987
Tau Beta Pi, University of Michigan, 1976