SCCS-NY 2016 Award Winners
Best Talk
Testing unmanned aerial systems for behavioral observations of marine mammals
Eric Ramos, The Graduate Center & Hunter College
Leaps and bounds: landscape connectivity through amphibian composition and genetics
Cara McElroy, University of Georgia & Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
Best Speed Talk
Novel hosts are critical when predicting spread of invasive avian brood parasites.
Robert Pecchia, Hunter College
Estivation physiology and habitat selection in southern California land snails.
Teresa Rose Osborne, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Posters
Effect of bumble bee queen body size on overwinter survival and colony establishment
Nicholas Dorian, Tufts University
Leopard (Panthera pardus) status, distribution, and research efforts across its range
Andrew Jacobson, University College London
Additional Awards:
Best use of Quantitative Methods in Conservation Research: courtesy of Applied Biomathematics
Estimating the persistence of seaside and saltmarsh sparrow populations in New Jersey (talk)
Samuel Roberts, University of Delaware
Is coral juvenile abundance associated with reef quality? (poster)
Araceli Acevedo-Rosas, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Outstanding Research in Land-Use and Stewardship: courtesy of the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy and the Harvard Forest
Demographic and traditional knowledge perspectives on the status of polar bears (talk)
Jordan York, Lakehead University
Highly disparate bird assemblages inside sugarcane and pasture crops (speed talk)
Eduardo Alexandrino, University of São Paulo
The impact of urbanization on Echinostoma sp. infection of green frogs (poster)
Meredith Vanacker, Yale University