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REPORT ON STUDENT AFFAIRS FROM THE 2005 ANNUAL MEETING

• 2005 STUDENT AWARDS
• FINALISTS
• The Student Affairs Committee thanks the student award judges for 2005

During the next 12 months, SCB's Student Affairs Committee will focus on developing mentoring programs for students, enhancing funding opportunities to support student travel to annual meetings, and planning student activities for SCB's 2006 annual meeting. We hope to include at least one member from each Regional Section on the committee so that we can meet all the regional needs. We still lack representation from the Europe Section and would like more members from the Australasia Section. Please contact committee chair Aram Calhoun (calhoun@maine.edu) if you are interested.

2005 STUDENT AWARDS

The Student Awards Program was highly successful this year. More than 75 abstracts were received and 15 finalists gave presentations at SCB's 2005 annual meeting.

Special thanks to Blackwell Publishing for sponsoring the awards and to Island Press, Oxford University Press and Sinauer Associates for contributing book gift certificates to the four awardees.

First Place
Clinton Epps
University of California - Berkeley, USA
Major highways block gene flow and decrease genetic diversity of desert bighorn sheep

Second Place
Andrew Holdsworth
University of Minnesota, USA
Earthworm invasion is extensive and reduces plant diversity in hardwood forests of the western Great Lakes (U.S.A.)

Third Place
Bernadette Bezy
University of Costa Rica
Spawning and recruitment of the reef-building corals Pavona clavus and Pavona gigantea in Culebra Bay, Costa Rica: learning from the next generation

Fourth Place
Trond Larsen
Princeton University, USA
Consequential coprophages: diversity patterns, species ranges and interactions between disturbance regimes, dung beetle communities and plant regeneration

FINALISTS

Duan Biggs (University of Cape Town, South Africa)--The institutions, dynamics and impacts of community-based AVI-tourism conservation development initiatives

Adrian Di Giacomo (Department of Conservation, Argentina)--Landscape habitat association of the most threatened Neotropical grassland bird populations: advantages and pitfalls of current land use practices

Nathalie Doswald (University of York, England)--Testing expert groups for a habitat suitability model for the lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Swiss Alps

Agnes Gault (National Museum of Natural History, France)--Feeding stations for griffon vultures: testing a potential threat for human health and birds' natural behavior

Liana Joseph (University of Queensland, Australia)--Optimal monitoring for listing threatened species

Pablo Lacabana (Provita, Venezuela)--Detecting and predicting land cover change in the Venezuelan north-central region: a search for local conservation priorities

Julie Morse (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA)--The effects of recreational disturbance on beach nesters: a case study of the black oystercatcher in Alaska

James Russell (University of Auckland, New Zealand)--Island invasion and reinvasion by Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Anne Salomon (University of Washington, USA)--Synergistic serial depletion of nearshore benthic invertebrates leads to a recent decline of a keystone grazer and the alteration of a coastal ecosystem

Florencia Trama (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)--Restoration of the Palo Verde marsh (Costa Rica): responses of plant communities to Typha domingensis control

Ross Wanless (University of Cape Town, South Africa)--Cultural evolution in the introduced house mouse: evidence for the cultural transmission of a unique predatory behaviour on Gough island?

The Student Affairs Committee thanks the student award judges for 2005

Abstract Review. Asa Berggren (Swedish University, Sweden), Aram Calhoun (University of Maine, USA), Erica Fleishman (Stanford University, USA), William Olupot (Wildlife Conservation Society, Uganda), Matt Walpole (Flora and Fauna, United Kingdom).

Oral Presentations. Asa Berggren, Aram Calhoun, Darren Evans (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom), Tatyana Good (Centro de Ecologia, Venezuela), Marcello Lima (Foundation for Nature, Brazil), Craig Morley (University of South Pacific, Fiji), Francisco Vilella (U.S. Geological Survey and Mississippi State University, USA), Lisette Waits (University of Idaho, USA).

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