Student Awards

Three awards for student papers were presented on July 3:

The Jack Ward Award for best student oral presentation:

Naomi Gardiner, James Cook University, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, Australia

"Site fidelity and homing behaviour in coral reef fish: limiting resilience to habitat change?"

The Gerry FitzGerald Award for best student poster presentation:

Camille Leblanc, Holar University College. Dept. of Fish Biology and Aquaculture, Iceland

"Evidence for an inherent variation in behaviour of Arctic charr juveniles based on isolation versus group experiments"

The Jan Smith Award for best application of behavior to fish conservation:

Daniella Swenton-Olson, University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, USA

"The role of premating isolation in mediating the co-occurrence of two Gambusia species"