When we weren’t presenting we took time to wander around quaint downtown St. John’s, explore Newfoundland’s coasts (including the easternmost point of North America, Cape Spear), play in the snow, and get “screeched-in” becoming true Newfoundlanders! We thank all of those who were on the organizing committee from Memorial University for executing another amazing Benthics! See you all next year in Wilmington, North Carolina for Benthics 2020!
The Voss Lab recently attended the 48th annual Benthic Ecology Meeting held from April 3-6 in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. The conference had over 300 attendees presenting on topics ranging from benthic fisheries to microbial communities. The Voss lab rocked the first day of the conference starting off with graduate student, Ian Combs, who gave a talk on using 3D modeling to track stony coral tissue loss disease progression, receiving tons of interest and questions. Graduate students, Lexie Sturm and Ryan Eckert gave back-to-back presentations on coral connectivity in Cuba and algal symbiont community structure in Belize, respectively. Our fearless leader, Joshua Voss, presented on the lab’s studies of mesophotic reef ecology in the Tropical Western Atlantic using genetic connectivity and coral transcriptomics. Graduate students, Erin Shilling and Victoria Uribe, rounded out the day with their poster presentations! Erin presented on stony coral tissue loss disease intervention and its effects on coral microbial communities and Victoria (an honorary Voss Lab member) shared her work on Queen Conch habitat characterization. We were also excited to check out the poster of lab alumnus, Jen Polinski, who shared her work on the biological characterization of sediment communities in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Lexie tied for second place for Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation! When we weren’t presenting we took time to wander around quaint downtown St. John’s, explore Newfoundland’s coasts (including the easternmost point of North America, Cape Spear), play in the snow, and get “screeched-in” becoming true Newfoundlanders! We thank all of those who were on the organizing committee from Memorial University for executing another amazing Benthics! See you all next year in Wilmington, North Carolina for Benthics 2020! Comments are closed.
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