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Graduate Students Emma Green-Beach and Joshua Moody Win Awards
HSRL graduate students, Emma Green-Beach and Joshua Moody are recent recipients of national awards to help fund their future research. Emma and Josh are Masters Degree candidates under the supervision of Associate Professor David Bushek. Emma received an award from the National Shellfisheries Association to attend their Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA March 1-5, 2010. Emma presented a poster on her research titled "Dermo disease on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: patterns of infection and population structure."
Josh received an award to attend the Spring 2010 meeting of the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society in Atlantic City, March 4-6, 2010 where he presented a poster titled "The relationship between ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) density and salt marsh shoreline erosion". The Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) has selected Josh to be a 2010-2011 NERR Graduate Research Fellowship. This award provides funds to complete a portion of his research in the DE NERR. The National Shellfisheries Association announced Josh as the 2010 recipient of the Melbourne R. Carriker Student Research Grant. This $1250 award is a competitive grant that to recognize a student's excellence in research in the area of shellfisheries. It is named in honor of one of the Association's most distinguished past Presidents and the person who formalized the regular publication of the society meeting notes as the Proceedings of the National Shellfisheries Association. Dr. Carriker was both a former student and faculty member at Rutgers so we are particularly pleased to have one of our own be recognized with this award.