“Deep Life Paper” and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” Awards were established in 2021 by International Center for Deep Life Investigation (IC-DLI), which is the international platform for communication and collaboration in deep life research.

The purpose of the awards is to recognize significant scholarly contributions and outstanding early career researchers in order to encourage further contributions into deep life research and foster the next generation of researchers in this field. IC-DLI selects five “Deep Life Paper” and two “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” annually.

In the past two years, IC-DLI has produced ten “Deep Life Papers” and four young researchers as “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” (For more information of past winners, please visit: https://icdli.sjtu.edu.cn/Data/List/Webinar). All winners were invited to give impressive talks in IC-DLI webinars series and the series have attracted thousands of researchers worldwide. IC-DLI is expecting more researchers who have passion and interest in deep life research to join us, participate in award nomination, selection and webinar series followed.

Here we are calling to vote on 2022 IC-DLI “Deep Life Paper”.

Voting Process

After calling for nomination of 2022 “Deep Life Paper” in January, we are having a nomination list with 69 papers currently. All papers were published within the period of January 1st, 2022 to December 31th, 2022 and contributed important results or break-through discoveries to deep life investigation.

IC-DLI would like to invite you to recommend 3- 5 best papers from the nominated list as 2022 "Deep Life Paper", which can represent the most important findings and contributions in the deep life field. Here is link of voting system:  https://www.opinionstage.com/page/10f97744-dfd2-4deb-8595-22cc0247c1c7

Detailed information of nominated papers can be found in the attached sheet or in the voting system. The voting system will be closed on March 3, 2023 at 11:59pm (Beijing Time). Please note that each participant can vote only once.

“Deep Life Paper” and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” Selection

After voting, the IC-DLI Awards Committee will select recipients of “Deep Life Paper” based on the shortlist based on vote and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” based on the candidate list. The Awards committee will be led by IC-DLI international co-chairs.

The IC-DLI Awards Committee will produce five “Deep Life Paper” and two “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders”. For “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders”, ideally one nominee in marine deep life and another in terrestrial deep life will be selected.

Award Procedure

IC-DLI will reveal the recipients of “2021 Deep Life Paper” and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” on IC-DLI website and through email. Recipients will be presented with an award package includes:

• An award certificate from IC-DLI

• An oral presentation opportunity in IC-DLI webinar series

• A cash award from IC-DLI (US $500)

Any comments and suggestions are more than welcomed. We appreciate your kind support to IC-DLI!

nomination list of 2022 Deep Life Paper