Scott Nixon was posthumously awarded the 2013 Citation for Scientific Excellence at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Award in New Orleans. His daughter, Beth Nixon, accepted the award on his behalf.

The full citation is available at this link.

Among those recommending Scott for the award were Candace Oviatt, faculty GSO, and GSO alumna (PhD 1967), Sybil Seitzinger, GSO alumna (PhD 1982) and former president of ASLO (and a former student of Scott’s), and Robinson Fulweiler, GSO alumna (PhD 2007) (also a former student of Scott’s).