Victorian Marine Science Consortium
AMSA / VMSC 2007 student prize The Australian Marine Sciences Association 45th Annual Conference - Marine science in a changing world - was held at The University of Melbourne from 9-13 July 2007.
The VMSC Management Committee has initiated a student prize to be awarded at the AMSA annual conference for the best presentation with a focus on temperate marine science.
For the inaugural award, judges could not separate two outstanding students - Joyce Ong and Trudy Costa - and the award was divided.
Joyce Ong presented the results of her honours work - Identifying larval dispersal scales of (Galaxias maculatus), a diadromous fish, in Victoria. Joyce was supervised by Dr Stephen Swearer and Nicole Barbee at The University of Melbourne.
Trudy Costa is a PhD student supervised by Dr Tim O'Hara of Museum Victoria and Professor Mick Keough at The University of Melbourne. Her presentation on Detecting anthropogenic disturbances in the rocky intertidal: a study of rocky shores in Victoria was based on work done on the Mornington Peninsula.
Congratulations Joyce and Trudy!!
Other VMSC (member) students to receive prizes were -
Peter Macreadie (PhD student at The University of Melbourne) - awarded the Fisheries Research Development Corporation prize for his presentation on Responses of fish to the fragmentation of seagrass habitats.
Kate Naughton (The University of Melbourne) – awarded The Ron Kenny Student Presentation prize for the best oral presentation of research results for her presentation on Divergent reproductive mode reveals cryptic speciation in the Lesser Biscuit Star (Tosia australis) – a result of her honours work on sea stars in Port Phillip Bay.