Congratulations to the 2023 winners of the Warren-McLeod Awards!
Recipients of the summer Warren-McLeod Fellowships:
Morgan Bennett-Smith – Biology Ph.D. student in the Buston Lab
Lucila Bloemendaal – Earth & Environment Ph.D. student in the FitzGerald Lab
JK Da-Anoy – Biology Ph.D. student in the Davies Lab
Joshua Harringmeyer – Earth & Environment Ph.D. student in the Fichot Lab
Recipient of the annual Warren-McLeod Fellowship:
Nia Bartolucci – Earth & Environment Ph.D. student in the Fulweiler Lab
Nia is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Fulweiler lab. She is a coastal biogeochemist studying how climate change and other anthropogenic impacts affect coastal wetlands’ biogeochemistry and ecosystem function and how we can make these systems more resilient to rising sea levels. Specifically, her research investigates how the salt marsh resiliency strategy, thin layer placement of sediment (TLP), impacts greenhouse gas dynamics and nutrient filtration.
Her advice for students interested in a career in marine science is to take advantage of opportunities to get involved in the field. She recommends applying to work in a lab or for a summer REU or internships.
About the Award
In 1990, Patricia Warren, the granddaughter of BU’s 1st President, William Fairfield Warren, to support graduate students in the BU Marine Program (BUMP). Guy McLeod, director of research at the New England Aquarium, was a marine biologist, whose scholarship focused on the role of iron, vanadium, and other metal ions on the physiological ecology of marine animals. Today, the Warren-McLeod fund continues to honor the donors’ intent to support research on marine ecology.
Congratulations, Nia, Morgan, Lucila, JK, and Joshua!