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The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography has awarded Matthew Church, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanography associate professor, with this year’s Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award.

The Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award honors an early-career scientist for outstanding and balanced contributions to research, science training and broader societal issues such as resource management, conservation, policy and public education.

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography recognized Church as an emerging intellectual leader for the discipline. The award will be presented at the 2015 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Granada, Spain, February 22–29, UH wrote on their website.

Church has served as lead investigator of the Hawaiʻi Ocean Time-series (HOT) program at UH Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology since 2009.

He is also a senior investigator in the UH Mānoa Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education and an inaugural investigator in the recently established Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology.

His research has provided significant contributions to the general understanding of the role of mesoscale processes of microbial distributions and function, and to the impacts of ocean acidification on microbial dynamics.