List of Student Presentation Awards for BEM 2018:
Best Poster:

• Alexis Sturm, Florida Atlantic University, “Assessing population connectivity of the coral species, Montastraea cavernosa, across various spatial scales in Cuba and the Tropical Western Atlantic”
• Derek Tollette, University of Alabama, “The effects of oil on northern Gulf of Mexico salt marsh nitrogen cycling”
• Jamie Smith, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, “Multiple stressor effects on macrobenthic communities in Southeastern Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, U.S.A.”

 People’s Choice Poster:

• Kory Enneking, Nova Southeastern University, “Orbicella faveolata coral chimeras can be visually identified based on morphological differences”

Best Oral:

• Kelly (Habicht) Pitts, Nova Southeastern University, “Early life history response of reef building coral Orbicella faveolata to ocean warming and acidification”
• Megan Bock, Nova Southeastern University, “Investigating pathogen transmission techniques and genotypic resistance in the staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis”
• Rebecca Atkins, University of Georgia, “Incorporating intraspecific variation and metabolic theory into our understanding of consumer-plant interactions”

People’s Choice Oral:

• Ben Gutzler, University of New Hampshire, “Follow your heart: using dataloggers to investigate behavior in freely-moving lobsters”
• Hannah Nylander-Asplin, Nova Southeastern University, “Investigating population transitions from the threatened parental species, Acropora cervicornis, to its hybrid in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Joey Reustle, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, “Cloudy with a chance of mesopredator release: sensory interference alleviates top down control in estuaries”