Elizabeth Sulzman Award, the Ecological Society of America (for Batterman, Hedin, et al. 2013. Nature 502:224-227), 2014.

Best Paper in Theoretical Ecology Award, the Ecological Society of America (for Menge, Hedin, et al. 2012. PLoS ONE 7:e42045), 2013.

August T Larsson Visiting Professorship, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden, 2012-2015.

Thompson Reuters Person with Highest Percent Citation Increase in the field of Environment and Ecology, 2009.

Elizabeth Sulzman Award, Ecological Society of America (for Menge, Hedin, et. al. 2008. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:1573-8), 2009.

Allan Cox Visiting Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, and Department of Global Ecology of Carnegie Institution, 2007.

Gene Likens Award, Ecological Society of America (for Houlton, Hedin, et. al. 2006. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:8745-8750), 2007.

Murray F. Buell Award from the Ecological Society of America (for Perakis, Compton, and Hedin. 2005. Ecology 86:96-105), 1998.

George Mercer Award, for “Outstanding Paper in the Science of Ecology” (Hedin et al. 1995. Ecology 76:493-509), Ecological Society of America, 1996.