[Coral-List] 2006 ISRS/TOC fellowship winners

[Robert van Woesik]

Dear coral list,

 

Each year, The Ocean Conservancy and ISRS co-fund a program of fellowships
for graduate studies in coral reef science. Competition was fierce this
year, with more than 80 proposals submitted. On behalf of ISRS President
Nick Polunin I am pleased to announce the winners of this year's ISRS/TOC
Graduate Fellowships in Coral Reef Science, listed below in alphabetical
order:

 

Wade Cooper, University of Miami, USA; Quantifying the effects of site
quality on settlement and early post-settlement dynamics in Scleractinians;

 

Annika Noreen, Southern Cross University, Australia; Corals at the

extreme:  connectivity and population dynamics of reef-building corals in
subtropical eastern Australia;

 

Carlos Toledo-Hernandez, University of Puerto Rico; Fungal community
associated with diseased and healthy Gorgonia ventalina, the role of
temperature stress and demographic 

consequences of aspergillosis to G. ventalina colonies;

 

Karin Ulstrup, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Bleaching
resilience of Acropora spp. associating with two phylogenetically different
algal endosymbionts;

 

Sheila Walsh, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA; Do
predator-dominated coral reefs have higher fish biomass and potential
harvest due to changes in growth rates?;

 

Anabella Zuluaga-Montero, University of Puerto Rico; Aspergillosis in sea
fans: phylogenetic relationship among Aspergillosis strains and patterns of
prevalence.

 

 

We are grateful to The Ocean Conservancy for their continuing support of
deserving students of coral reef science. I would like to add my personal
thanks to ISRS Recording Secretary Rob van Woesik and his fellowships
committee for reviewing the proposals.

 

Sincerely,

 

Richard B. Aronson

ISRS Vice President