Awards will be given to the best student oral presentation and poster presentation. To qualify for a student award, you must have carried out the presented work while you were a registered student, and you must make the presentation yourself.
Conference registration fees will be discounted for students, and student volunteers who help with registration and conference logistics will receive free registration.
If you are interested in volunteering at the conference, please contact:
- Karen McDowell, SFEP, kmcdowell@waterboards.ca.gov
2010 Student Competition Winners
Best oral presentation: Russell Perry, University of Washington
“Effects of Tides, River Flow, and Gate Operations on Entrainment of Juvenile Chinook Salmon into the Interior Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta”
Russell Perry1, John Skalski1, Patricia Brandes2, and Jon Burau3
1University of Washington
2 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
3 U.S. Geological Survey
Best poster presentation: Jang-Won Lee, UC Davis
“Effects of Dietary Methylmercury Chloride on the Growth Performances and Tissue Burdens in Juvenile green (Acipenser medirostris) and White Sturgeon (A. transmontanus).”
Jang-Won Lee, Nicola De Riu, Lee Seung-Hyung, Sungchul Bai, and Silas Hung
UC Davis
2008 Student Competition Winners
Best oral presentation: Walter Heady, UC Santa Cruz
“Fine Scale Habitat Associations, Movement and Survival of Steelhead Trout of the Mokelumne River, CA, using Acoustic Telemetry in Standardized Transects”
Heady*1, W.N., M.L. Workman2, J.E. Merz3
1Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept., UC Santa Cruz, Long Marine Laboratory, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
2East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1 Winemasters Way Suite K2, Lodi, CA 95240
3Cramer Fish Sciences, 636 Hedburg Way # 22, Oakdale, CA 95361
Best poster presentation: Lindsey K. Alberston, UC Santa Barbara
“Geomorphic Constraints on the Restoration of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in the Merced River, CA”
Albertson*, L.K., S.C. Zeug, B.J. Cardinale, H.S. Lenihan, A.M. Wydzga, L. Harrison, T. Dunne
University of California-Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
2006 Student Competition Winners
Best oral presentation: Karin Tuxin, UC Berkeley
“Change in Tidal Marsh Vegetation Measured by Spatial Landscape Metrics”
Tuxen*1, K.A., L. Shile2, M. Kelly1, S. Siegal3
1 UC Berkeley - Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3114
2 San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
3 Wetland and Water Resources, 1010 B Street, Suite 425, San Rafael, CA 94901
Best poster presentation: Glen Leverich, San Francisco State University
“Quantifying Channel Response to Variable Flow in a Meandering River Model”
Leverich*1, G., C. Braudrick2, L. Sklar1, W. Dietrich2
1 Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132
2 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley