The Lane Anderson Award honours the very best science writing in Canada today, both in the adult and young reading categories. Each award will be determined on the relevance of its content to the importance of science in today ’s world, and the author ’s ability to connect the topic to the interests of the general trade reader. The annual Lane Anderson Award will honour two jury-selected books, in the categories of adult and young reader, published in the field of science, and written by a Canadian. The winner in each category will receive $10,000. Two three-person jury panels drawn from the Canadian academic, publishing, creative and institutional fields will review submissions in the two categories, and the jury will be announced with the winners at an event in Toronto on the 15th September. Closing date for submissions is April 30th 2010 for books published in 2009. A shortlist will be announced on August 16th, 2010. www.laneandersonaward.ca $10,000 Lane Anderson Award Shortlist Announced Celebrating the Best Science Writing in Canada Toronto. 19th August, 2010: The six finalists competing for the inaugural 2009 Lane Anderson Award were announced today by Hollister Doll and Sharon Fitzhenry, Directors of the Fitzhenry Family Foundation. The annual Lane Anderson Award honours two jury-selected books, in the categories of adult and young reader, published in the field of science, and written by a Canadian. The winner in each category will receive $10,000. Winners will be announced on 15th September. ”We wanted to honour the very best science writing in Canada, both in the adult and young reader categories, and were pleased at the great selection of titles submitted this year. The shortlist was determined on relevance of content to the importance of science in today ’s world, and the author ’s ability to connect the topic to the interests of the general trade reader, ” said Doll and Fitzhenry. The 2009 Lane Anderson Prize Adult Finalists are: The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden and H.V. Nelles. (McGill-Queen ’s University Press) The River Returns brings the story of the Bow River ’s transformation full circle through an exploration of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulations that have led to new limits on what might be done with, and to, a river. Christopher Armstrong is professor of history at York University. Matthew Evenden is professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. H.V. Nelles is professor of history at McMaster and York Universities. “This is an outstanding example of science publishing; an impressive biography of a river which sets the standard as it brings together environmental science with the history of human land use. ” – The JuryгЂЂ Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis by Alanna Mitchell. (McClelland & Stewart) Sea Sick is the first book to examine the current state of the world ’s oceans, and the great unexamined ecological crisis of the planet; the fact that we are altering everything about the oceans.
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