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NAMA Awards

Award criteria and recipients can be found below. To see profiles of previous award recipients, click on the corresponding category link. 

Gary Lincoff Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology

NAMA’s Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology is given annually to recognize a person who has contributed extraordinarily to the advancement of amateur mycology. Its recipients have often extensively conducted workshops, led forays, written or lectured widely about mushrooms and identifying mushrooms, all on a national or international level. In 2015, the name of the award was officially changed to recognize the contributions of Gary Lincoff; now the Gary Lincoff Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology.  The awardee receives a plaque and lifetime membership in NAMA.

Nominations for this award should include a description of the accomplishments the nominee has made in the field of amateur mycology.

  • A name alone is not a sufficient nomination; neither is a profile on a website.
  • The recipient must be living at the time of the award.
  • Nominees who were not selected to receive the award are automatically re-nominated for 4 additional years, after which the nominee’s name has to be re-submitted, and it’s up to the nominator to keep track of this.
  • Selection among nominees is made by the voting of past award winners.
  • Nominations will be accepted until June 1st of the nomination year.

Send a nomination by email to:

Phil Carpenter
Chair, NAMA Awards Committee
Email

Recipients of the Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology

The Harry and Elsie Knighton Service Award

The Harry and Elsie Knighton Service Award was established by the NAMA Board of Trustees to recognize and encourage persons who have distinguished themselves in service to their local clubs. It is named for the Knightons, whose efforts began the North American Mycological Association in 1967.

The annual award consists of a plaque; publicity for the winner and club in The Mycophile; a one-year membership in the organization; and registration, housing and foray fees for the next NAMA Foray.

  • Each year’s recipient is selected by the three most recent recipients of the Award.
  • Every NAMA-affiliated mycological club may nominate one candidate whom it feels has performed meritorious service during the current or preceding year, which has to be described!
  • Unselected nominees are automatically re-nominated for two additional years.
  • Nominations will be accepted until June 1st of the nomination year.

Send a nomination by email to:

Phil Carpenter
Chair, NAMA Awards Committee
Email

Recipients of the Harry and Elsie Knighton Service Award

President's Outstanding Service Award

Don Huffman instituted the President’s Outstanding Service Award during his tenure as President of NAMA to honor persons who have been of outstanding service to NAMA. The award represents the President’s personal selection.

Recipients of the President's Outstanding Service Award

NAMA Memorial Scholarship

The NAMA Memorial Fellowship was established to commemorate an amateur or professional mycologist designated annually by the NAMA Board of Trustees. The award consists of a $2,000 grant to a graduate student in mycology on the basis of scholastic merit, research ability, and promise shown as a mycologist. The student is selected and the award is administered by the Mycological Society of America. The requirements are the same as those for the MSA Graduate Fellowships, with the additional stipulation that the Fellow provides an article for McIlvainea.

NAMA Memorial Scholarship Recipients and Honorees

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