The Eastern Snow Conference encourages student research through its Wiesnet Medal. This medal is presented annually to the best student paper presented at the conference.
2023 Jake Ferguson (University of Waterloo)
2022 Megan Verfaillie (University of New Hampshire)
2021 Daniela Krampe (Alfred Wegener Institut)
2020 No meeting
2019 Zhibang Lv (University of Saskatchewan)
2018 Jiyue Zhu (University of Michigan)
2017 Caroline Dolant (Université de Sherbrooke)
2016 Syed Mousavi (University of Michigan)
2015 Nicolas Leroux (University of Saskatchewan)
2014 Justin Hartnett (Syracuse University)
2013 Andreas Dietz (Earth Observation Center/DFD, Germany)
2012 Elizabeth Burakowski (University of New Hampshire)
2011 Kathryn Semmens (Lehigh University)
2010 Simon von de Wall (University of Victoria)
2009 Si Chen (Dartmouth College)
2008 Chris Fuhrmann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2007 Not awarded
2006 Y.C. Chung (University of Michigan)
2005 M. Javan-Mashmool (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
2004 J. Farzaneh-Dehkordi (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
2003 Alexandre Langlois (Université de Sherbrooke)
2002 Patrick Ménard (Université de Laval)
2001 Changiz Tavakoli (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
2000 Not awarded
1999 S. Brettschnieder (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
1998 Andrew Grundstein (University of Delaware)
1997 Newell Hedstrom (University of Saskatchewan)
1996 Suzanne Hartley (University of Denver)
1995 Paul Wolfe (Wilfred Laurier University)
1994 G.E. Mann (University of Michigan)
1993 G. Devarennes (Université du Québec à Québec)
1992 D.W. Cline (University of Colorado)
1991 D. Samelson (Cornell University)
1990 A.K. Abdel-Zaher (University of New Brunswick)
1989 A. Giguere (McGill University)
1988 Mauri Pelto (University of Maine)
1987 Cameron Wake (Wilfred Laurier University)
1986 Craig Allen (Trent University)
1985 Robert Speck (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
1984 N.K. Kalliomaki (Laurentian University)
1983 David Beresford (Trent University)
1982 Not awarded
1981 Jeffrey Patch (University of New Brunswick)
1980 Bryan Wolfe (Trent University)
1979 Margaret Leech (McGill University)
1978 Michael English (Trent University)
1977 Don McLaughlin & George Duggan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
1976 Dwayne McMurter (Trent University)
1975 Nigel Allan (Syracuse University)
1974 Not awarded