ISRS is pleased to announce that the Society’s 2017 Graduate Fellowships have been awarded to the following graduate students:
Ashani Arulananthan (Sri Lanka)
Institution: Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Research topic: A Baseline Survey of Coral Reefs and Genetic Diversity Analysis of Coral Species in Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka
Wing Chan (Hong Kong)
Institution: School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria & Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Research Topic: Assisted evolution via hybridization: A new potential approach in coral reef restoration
Louis Yohan Didier (Mauritius)
Institution: University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius
Research Topic: Spatial and temporal modulation of the expression of Heat Shock Proteins in the coral Acropora muricata before and during the 2016 El Niño.
Erin Dillon (USA)
Institution: Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California – Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Research Topic: Reconstructing historical shark communities on Curaçao using a novel paleoecological tool
James Price (USA)
Institution: School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Research Topic: Coral resilience to global change: roles of the microbiome and animal physiology
Aida Sofia Rivera Sotelo (Colombia)
Institution: Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, California, USA
Research Topic: Coral Ecologies – An Ethnography of Social Relations in the Caribbean of Colombia
Congratulations to the successful applicants and thanks also to the other ISRS members who submitted research proposals. 24 applications were received and assessed independently by a panel of six Council members. The panel commented on the overall very high quality of the proposals.
