SNEC Student Travel Award Recipient Selected to Attend the 2006 AFS National Meeting in Lake Placid

The Southern New England Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (SNEC) Student Travel Award was established in 2005. The fund provides monetary travel awards for deserving graduate students or exceptional undergraduate students to make an oral or poster presentation at the American Fisheries Society (AFS) annual meeting.

This year’s award recipient is Dustin Edwards. Dustin graduated from Binghamton University in NY with BS degree in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. While at Binghamton, Dustin had first fisheries experience when chosen as a summer intern working on Brook trout feeding dynamics for Cornell University and their Adirondack Fisheries Research Program. He then went to work for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for two field seasons as a fisheries technician working on the Strategic Monitoring of Mercury in New York State Fish Project. Dustin entered the Masters Program at the University of Connecticut's Natural Resources Department in January of 2005 and is currently researching various aspects of electromyogram telemetry and bioenergetics with brown trout and largemouth bass. The award consists of a $500 check from the Chapter recognizing his achievement. The award is intended to help him pay for the expenses associated with presenting his Masters’ thesis work entitled “EMG telemetry and individual-based bioenergetic models: lab evaluation of a method to explore energetic-based habitat quality” at the American Fisheries Society meeting in Lake Placid, September 2006. He will also present a poster entitled “Are special bass-management regulations at odds with human-health advisories in mercury contaminated lakes?”

Student Travel Award information here