Best Graduate Student Posters
Winner
Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman (Oregon State University) WHELK PREDATORS CONSUME FEWER PREY IN ACIDIFIED WATER
Honorable Mention
Joshua Manning (California State University Northridge) EFFECT OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND WARMING ON THREE CRUSTOSE CORALLINE ALGAE SPECIES FOUND ON THE REEFS OF MOOREA, FRENCH POLYNESIA
Best Undergraduate Student Posters
Winner
Julia Bingham (Oregon State University) SENSITIVE BARNACLES: QUANTIFYING LIFE HISTORY PROCESSES OF POLLICIPES POLYMERUS TO INFORM SUSTAINABLE HARVEST MANAGEMENT
Honorable Mention
Nina Finley (Whitman College) IS OCEAN ACIDIFICATION MELTING SEA STARS? THE EFFECT OF LOWERED pH AND WASTING DISEASE ON THE HEALTH OF FOUR PUGET SOUND SPECIES
Best Student Papers
Rafe Sagarin Observational Ecology
Stephanie Benseman (CSU Northridge) THE SECRET LIFE OF BABY GIANTS: THE RECUITMENT OF THE ENDANGERED GIANT SEA BASS
Organismal/Population Biology
Winner
Hayley Cameron (Monash University) WHY DO LARGER MOTHERS PRODUCE LARGER OFFSPRING? A TEST OF CLASSIC THEORY
Honorable Mention
Hannah Nelson (California State University, Northridge) ALLOMETRY AND INTEGRATION CONSTRAIN CARIBBEAN OCTOCORALS MORPHOLOGY
Community/Ecosystem Ecology
Winner
Arie Spyksma (The University of Auckland) DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF PREDATORS ON SEA URCHIN BEHAVIOUR AND MORPHOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR KELP FOREST TROPHIC CASCADES
Honorable Mention
Jenn Burt (Simon Fraser University) SEA URCHIN ABUNDANCE AND PREDATOR-AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOUR REGULATE KELP CONSUMPTION IN HIGH LATITUDE TEMPERATE REEFS
Applied Ecology/Conservation Biology (Mia Tegner Award)
Winner
Olivia Rhoades (Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California Davis) FEED OR FLEE: IMPACTS OF FISHING AND DIVING ON FISH FORAGING AND ECOLOGICAL FUNCTION ACROSS MARINE RESERVES
Honorable Mention
Michael Esgro (Institute for Applied Marine Ecology, CSU Monterey Bay) DANGER ZONE: ROLE OF A MILITARY RESTRICTED AREA IN PROTECTION OF DEMERSAL FISH AND INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES AT SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND