The 67th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan
Japanese

Poster award

ESJ will give an award to young researchers who present outstanding posters. Please refer to the following qualification requirements. Details on poster presentations will be given on the ESJ67 official website. Please prepare your poster regarding the points outlined on the website.

Poster Award Qualifications

The following criteria will be applied to the primary author of the poster presentation:

  1. Students (undergraduate, graduate, and PhD candidates) without a doctoral degree as of October 31, 2019, are eligible to apply for ESJ67 poster awards.
  2. Previous poster award winners cannot apply for the award (including those from joint annual meetings with EAFES).

Poster Award Criteria

  • The following are the evaluation criteria for the selection of outstanding posters. Please prepare your poster using these points.
    (A) Clarity of the poster
    In a poster presentation, it is important to display the contents of your research concisely. The following features are required: 1) precise title, 2) simple abstract, 3) efforts to draw attention, 4) efforts to convey the outline. Figures and tables should be easy to read from a distance. Overloading with information should be avoided. An outline should be comprehensive and understandable without explanation. For fairness, please do not change the title of your presentation after the submission.
    (B) Quality of the study
    The presentation will be evaluated based on 1) novelty and innovativeness, 2) quality and quantity of data, 3) validity of analysis methods, 4) rationale of discussion and conclusion.
  • We have excluded presentation technique, which was an evaluation criterion in past meetings, because outstanding posters are understandable by observation alone. Another reason for the exclusion is to alleviate the burden on judges who have to review many applications. For items that are difficult to assess only visually, judges may evaluate by listening to the presentation and asking questions.
  • Because the ESJ is promoting international communication, we also consider those who non-native Japanese speakers. During the review process, only poster contents are evaluated, irrespective of the language. However, if two or more posters have tied scores, priority will be given to posters understandable not only in Japanese but also in English. Being understandable in English means a poster with (at least) the title, introduction, and conclusion written in English, or with a translated supplement provided so that the research outline can be understood by non-native Japanese speakers.
  • Presenters who selected a presentation language as “English” or “Bilingual” on the registration system are asked to make their posters in English.