| 2021 | Carl L. and Laura C. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Chad Teal | University of Arizona | Efforts in the development of Trojan sex chromosome carrying Red Shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis) and Green Sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) for the control of nuisance populations in the Southwest |
| 2021 | Best Student Poster Award | Justin Waraniak | North Dakota State University | Trade-offs among life history traits and parasite intensity in the White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) |
| 2020 | No meeting due to COVID-19 | | | |
| 2019 | Carl L. and Laura C. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Kelbi Delaune | Texas Tech University | Spatial and temporal variation in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages at tributary confluences of the Pecos River |
| 2019 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Sr. Alexsandre Gutierrez-Barraga | DICTUS Universidad de Sonora | Advances on the genetic characterization of the reproductive stock of Yaqui Catfish, Ictalurus pricei (Rutter, 1896), of the Bavispe River sub-basin, Sonora |
| 2019 | Best Student Poster Award | | | |
| 2018 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Drew Eppehimer | University of Arizona | Implications of Using Treated Wastewater as Habitat for Desert Fishes |
| 2018 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Sr. Alexsandre Gutierrez-Barraga | DICTUS Universidad de Sonora | Comparative Morphometrics Analysis Among Refuge and Wild Populations of Sonoyta Pupfish Cyprinodon eremus Miller & Fuiman, 1987 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) |
| 2018 | Best Student Poster Award | Mary-Elise Johnson | Brigham Young University | Evolution of Gonopodial Asymmetry and Behavior Laterality in the Livebearing fish Xenophallus umbratilis. |
| 2018 | Special Achievement Award | Harlan Bean | Starkey Elementary School | Comparing and contrasting pupfish, headwater catfish and northern largemouth bass |
| 2017 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Drew Eppehimer | University of Arizona | Can Treated Wastewater Reestablish Aquatic Communities in Desert Rivers? |
| 2017 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Maria Guadalpe Valdez-Garcia | | Evaluation of Water Quality as a determinant of desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) survival in La Flor Del Desierto, Ciénega de Santa Clara, Sonora, Mexico. |
| 2017 | Best Student Poster Award | Catherine De Vlaming | Colorado State University | The Effectiveness of Light Traps for Capturing Razorback Sucker Larvae |
| 2016 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Stephan Mussman | University of Arkansas | Riverscape genetics of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus); a contrasting study of Colorado River and Great Basin Drainages |
| 2016 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Ballesteros-Cordova, C. | Universidad de Sonora Departamento de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas, Hermosillo, Mexico. | Molecular clock and events implicated in the divergence time within the endemic Gila eremica lineage in Sonora, northwest Mexico. |
| 2016 | Best Student Poster Award | Adam Baca | New Mexico State University | Reproductive Strategies of White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) inhabiting stable and Stochastic Habitats |
| 2015 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Rebecca Frus | University of New Mexico, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Habitat conditions for the endangered Zuni bluehead sucker, Catostomus discobolus yarrowi, Zuni Mountains, New Mexico: continuous monitoring and hydrogeochemistry of springs |
| 2015 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Ballesteros-Cordova, C. | Universidad de Sonora Departamento de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas, Hermosillo, Mexico. | Identifying a potentially cryptic species of Gila sp. in Sonora, México. |
| 2015 | Best Student Poster Award | Alyssa V. Sanchez | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque | Relationship of genetic diversity metrics to density in two imperiled Canadian River fishes, Arkansas Shiner and Plains Minnow |
| 2014 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Hanna Moore | University of Arizona | Algae as bio-indicators of stream function in acid mine drainage systems: qualitative analyses of algal communities in Santa Cruz watershed |
| 2014 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Veronica Mendosa | Coleccion Nacional de Peces Instituto de Biologias, UNAM, Hermosillo, Mexico | Diversity and potential distribution of the fish fauna of the Sierra Madre Occidental. |
| 2014 | Best Student Poster Award | Lilla Vela-Valladares | Pronatura Noreste, A. C., Chihuahua | A program for long-term genetic, habitat, and population monitoring of Cyprinodon fontinalis and associated specie in Ojo Solo and the Ojo Caliente Refuge. |
| 2013 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Stephani Barkalow Clark | University of Arizona | Effects of total suspended sediments on survival of Yaqui chub eggs and larvae |
| 2013 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Ballesteros-Corodova, C. | Universidad de Sonora Departamento de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas, Hermosillo, Mexico. | Advances in the mitochondrial sequencing and genome structure of the Yaqui catfish, Ictalurus pricei, in Northwest Mexico |
| 2013 | Best Student Poster Award | Sally Petre | University of Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife unit | Habitat suitability criteria for virile crayfish, a non-native species in Arizona. |
| 2012 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Christopher Martin | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, | Novel ecology, morphology, and rapid evolution within adaptive radiations of Cyprinodon pupfishes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas and Laguna Chichancanab, Mexico and direct field measurement of multiple fitness peaks on the pupfish adaptive landscape |
| 2012 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Bonillas-Monge, Mario E. | | Genetic variation in the San Bernardino Spring Snail (Pyrgulopsis bernardina) in the upper San Bernardino River Basin in Northeast Sonora, Mexico |
| 2012 | Best Student Poster Award | Samantha M. Skinner | North Dakota State University | The role of intraguild predation on potential impacts of invasive mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, on Ash Meadows pupfish, Cyprinodon ssp. |
| 2011 | Carl L. Hubbs Award: best student presentation | Carlos Ballesteros-Cordova | Universidad de Sonora | Population genetic variability of Yaqui Trout (Oncorhynchus sp.) in the Mesa Tres Rios area, Sonora |
| 2011 | Robert Rush and Frances Hubbs Miller: best student presentation Mexico or other Latin American country | Maria Teresa Carreon-Zapiain | Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey | Mycobacterium in native protected fishes |
| 2011 | Best Student Poster Award | Yolanda Castillo Ontiveros | Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon | Refuge Center for Endangered Fish Species (CRPPE) Project: Conservation and Research of freshwater Mexican Fishes |
