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CEMAR Hall of Fame2010 Gina Filleramo received the A.R.A. Taylor Graduate Fellowship from UNB. Katy Hind was this year's Let's Talk Science National Coordinator of the Year Award runner up. Sarah Hamsher won the Paul C. Silva Student Travel Grant from the International Phycological Society and a travel award from the International Society for Diatom Research to attend the 21st International Diatom Symposium. Amanda Savoie was awarded the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship and Board of Governors Merit Award for Graduate Studies.
2009 Gary Saunders - UNB Merit Award Bridgette Clarkston won a $1000 Phycological Society of America Hoshaw award to travel to the P.S.A. annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Susan Clayden won the Northeast Algal Society (NEAS) Robert T. Wilce Award for the meritorious poster by a graduate student at the meeting in Amherst, MA and the Phycological Society of America (PSA) student poster award at the meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Katy Hind won the Hoshaw Travel Award from the Phycological Society of America ($1000), the John S. Little International Study Fellowship ($1900), and the City of Fredericton - Ambassador Award ($100).
2008 Bridgette Clarkston won the Robert T. Wilce Award for best oral paper presentation at the Northeast Algal Society meeting. Susan Clayden received a British Phycological Society (BPS) student bursary to attend a marine field course ‘Collecting and Identifying Seaweeds’ in Wales. Katy Hind won the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Student Poster Award - 2nd Place ($300), the BioGENESIS Evolutionary Applications Poster Award (Honorable Mention), the UNB Biology Teaching Assistant of the Year ($200), and the Florence M. Christie Research Fellowship in Botany ($1000). Hana Kucera won the Graduate Student Award of Merit from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada ($2500).
2007 Gary Saunders received the Frank Shipley Collins Award: meritorious service to the Society and Phycology, presented by the Northeast Algal Society at the 46th annual meeting in Narragansett, RI. Susan Clayden won honorable mention for her poster at the Phycological Society of America (PSA) meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Dan McDevit received the A.R.A. Taylor Graduate Fellowship from UNB. Hana Kucera won the Canadian Barcode of Life Science Symposium Student Poster Award ($250), the Board of Governors Merit Award from UNB ($4000), and a Doctoral Level (PGS-D) NSERC scholoarship worth $42,000.
2006 Susan Clayden received the John S. Little International Fellowship to attend the ‘Young Systematists’ Forum, Natural History Museum, London. Dan McDevit won the Robert T. Wilce Award for best poster at the Northeastern Algal Symposium for his poster entitled "Assessing species richness and phylogenetic relationships of the brown algal (Phaeophyceae) flora of Canada". Hana Kucera received the A.R.A. Taylor Graduate Fellowship and the Vaughan Graduate Fellowship in Marine Sciences from UNB.
2005 Susan Clayden’s talk at the University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference was awarded 3rd place in the life and physical sciences. Dr. Chris Lane received the Governor General's Gold Award for this dissertation research 'Molecular investigations in the brown algal order Laminariales.' Hana Kucera received the Board of Governors Merit Award from UNB ($2500).
2004 Susan Clayden received a “Friends of the Farlow Fellowship” Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University to visit the collections and to assist with field work in New England. Hana Kucera received an Masters Level (CGS) NSERC scholarship worth $35,000.
2003 Gary Saunders - E.W.R. Steacie Award (NSERC) Clayden, S.L., & Saunders G.W. Wilce Award for best Student Poster, 42nd Northeast Algal Symposium. Saratoga Springs, NY. 2003. Rhodochorton membranaceum, an endozoic acrochaete having affinities with the Palmariales.
2002 April
22, 2002 - Colin Bates (Saunders/Chopin) received the Robert T. Wilce
Award, for best graduate student oral presentation at the 41st Northeast Algal
Symposium, for his presentation entitled “Optimizing methodologies in
intertidal seaweed biomonitoring - how to get the March 12, 2002 - Colin Bates received an NSERC PGS-B scholarship, worth $38,200, which he will take up at UBC, starting September, 2002. Feb 22, 2002 - CEMAR members Penny Humby and Colin Bates won awards at the 10th Annual UNB Graduate Student Research Conference. Penny took the Merrill Edwards award (first place) and Colin tied for 2nd place in the graduate student oral presentation category. 2001Colin Bates - Vaughan Graduate Research Scholarship Several graduate students from Gary Saunders' lab won awards at the 15th Annual Northwest Algal Symposium in Whidbey Island, Wash. Chris Lane won the Best Student Presentation Award for his work, Using Additional Gene Systems to Understand Kelp Evolution, coauthored by Charlene Mayes and Dr. Saunders. Virginia Lehmkuhl won the Best Student Poster Award for a poster entitled Morphological Diversity & Molecular Relatedness of the Species of the Red Algal Genus Plocamium, coauthored by Dr. Saunders. Jennifer Dalen took home Second Place Student Poster Award honours for her poster presentation entitled Taxonomic Affinities of Species in the Genus Leptofauchea, coauthored by Dr. Saunders. Colin Bates won the Second Place Student Presentation Award for an oral presentation entitled Monitoring Intertidal Seaweed Communities for Symptoms of Environmental Stress in the Outer Bay of Fundy. The presentation was coauthored by Dr. Saunders and Thierry Chopin (SJ). Han-Gu Choi, a post-doctoral fellow, gave a poster presentation entitled Phylogenetic Relationships of Polysiphonia and its Relatives Based on Anatomical and Nuclear Small-subunit rDNA Sequence Data. The presentation was coauthored by M.S. Kim, Michael Guiry and Dr. Saunders.
2000 Colin Bates - Huntsman Marine Science Centre Graduate Research Scholarship Jenn Dalen - Best Poster - 39th Northeast Algal Symposium, Rhode Island. Chris Lane - NSF Graduate Fellowship Award - Honorable Mention 2000 Previous & Ongoing CEMAR members have many distinctions. Please note the following. Thierry Chopin: Member
of the Executive Council, and Treasurer, of the International Phycological
Society. Gary W. Saunders Canada Research Chair in Molecular Systematics & Biodiversity
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