Posted by: Savannah Judge
Today we are excited to announce the recipient of this year’s Aquatic FlowCam Research Equipment and Travel grant for graduate students. This grant provides students and professors with access to a FlowCam at their lab for the fall semester, as well as financial support to present their work involving the FlowCam at a North American conference (remotely, if needed).
This is the first year we have offered this program since 2016, and we received an astonishing 26 applications across both undergraduate and graduate categories and were amazed by the quality of research put forward by each applicant.
This year’s graduate award goes to Savannah Mapes, a graduate student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) who is studying harmful algal blooming (HAB) species in the lower Chesapeake Bay with Dr. Kimberly Reece. She will be using the FlowCam 8100 to study HAB dynamics in the York River/lower Chesapeake Bay while also studying the life cycle of Alexandrium monilatum, a local toxin-producing HAB species, in the lab. Prior to VIMS, Savannah earned her bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology at Texas A&M Galveston, where she studied the effects of oil spills on phytoplankton in the Gulf of Mexico and completed an REU at Mote Marine Lab where she studied a potential parasitic biocontrol for Karenia brevis (“Florida red tide”).
Please join us in congratulating Savannah and VIMS!
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