Student Travel Awards Applications Double Since Last Meeting

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Author: 
Paul Carlson, Paul.Carlson@fwc.state.fl.us

Applications for student travel awards nearly doubled between the New Orleans meeting in 1999 and this year's meeting in St. Pete Beach. We received 98 requests for student travel awards totaling over $90,000. Because we had only $12,000 to spend on student travel awards, we decided to give priority to students presenting a paper or poster at the meeting, but that still left us with 81 students eligible to receive support.

To make the available funds support as many students as possible, we followed Dennis Allen's precedent of making partial awards of $150, $225, or $300, depending on each applicants traveling distance, but we still were forced to choose recipients by lottery. We offered awards to 53 students, and 47 have confirmed their acceptance.

Of the 53 award recipients, 43 come from the United States, 4 from Mexico, 2 from Canada, and one each from Morocco, Singapore, South Africa and Brazil.

Of the 43 U.S. students, 16 come from the southeast, an additional 20 come from states east of the Mississippi, and 7 come from western states. Eighteen students are working on master's degrees, and the remaining awardees are Ph.D. candidates.

 

Student Travel Award Winners

Celsa Aguayo-Gonzalez
CINVESTAV, Yucatan, Mexico

Mustapha Aksissou
Tetouan Univ., Morocco

Scott Applebaum
Marine Science Inst.
Univ. of Texas

Anna Armitage
UCLA

Amanda Babson
Univ. of Washington

Thomas Bornman
Univ. of Port Elizabeth
South Africa

Amanda Bremner
Univ. of New Brunswick
Canada

Carrie Burdick
Univ. of New Hampshire

Dawn Carroll
Univ. of North Carolina

Erika Clesceri
Univ. of North Carolina

Marci Cole
Boston Univ.

Alyson Craig
Univ. of Georgia

James Dame
East Carolina Univ.

Jessica Davis
Univ. of Maryland

Juli Dyble
Univ. of North Carolina

John Fear
Univ. of North Carolina

Tricia Forrester
Millersville Univ.

Sarah Frias-Torres
Florida Inst. of Technology

Alexandre Garcia
Univ. Fed. Rio Grande, Brazil

Lora Harris
Univ. of Rhode Island

Heidi Hertler
Acad. of Natural Sciences

Nancy Hilbun
Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

Virginia Johnson
Univ. of North Carolina

Michael Jones
Univ. of Delaware

Ray Konisky
Univ. of New Hampshire

Kevin Kroeger
Boston Univ.

Jennifer Kunzelman
Univ. of North Carolina

Audra Luscher
Univ. of North Carolina

Catarina Magalhaes
Univ. of Porto, Portugal

Melinda May
East Carolina Univ.

Leigh McCallister
Virginia Inst. of Marine Science

Israel Medina-Gomez
CINVESTAV, Mexico

Martin Montes
CICESE, Mexico

Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna
Univ. of Wisconsin

Raquel Muñiz
Univ. Auto. Baja California, Mexico