Midyear Crustacean Society Meeting, Williamsburg, June 2003

Best Student Oral Presentation:

J. Antonio Baeza (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), "Experimental tests of socially mediated sex change in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, the shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni (Crustacea:  Caridea)" (co-author:  Ray Bauer).

Best Student Poster:

Russ Barbour (University of North Carolina, Wilmington), "Availability of brachyuran megalopae and settlement patterns of Callinectes sapidus megalopae in the Cape Fear River estuary, NC" (co-authors M. H. Posey and T.D. Alphin). 

Our congratulations to both of these winners! Thanks go too to the other student participants who gave excellent papers all around.