24-28 October, 2004
The Crustacean Society thanks all students who participated in the most recent Best Student Oral and Poster Presentation competition. Judging this year was particularly challenging as there were over 130 entries! TCS also thanks members and colleagues who served as judges, especially Dr. Sergio Bueno (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Dr. Wagner Valenti (FCAV, UNESP, São Paulo State University and Aquaculture Center, Jaboticabal, Brazil), who, with TCS President Trisha Spears (Florida State University), served on the executive judging committee.
TCS congratulates the following winners:
A. Corona (University of Sydney, Australia), for the oral presentation, Relationship between accumulated sediment and amphipod abundances within turfing macro-algae.
Sérgio Rocha (University of São Paulo, Brazil), for his poster presentation Relative growth of the first pereiopod in Aegla strinatii Türkay, 1972 (Decapoda, Aeglidae).
W. Santana (University of São Paulo, Brazil) for his poster presentation Larval development of Leurocyclus tuberculosus (H. Milne Edwards and Lucas, 1843) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from laboratory-cultured material.
Mariana Terossi (University of São Paulo, Brazil, for her poster presentation Pattern of shell occupation by the hermit crab Pagurus exilis (Anomura, Paguridae) in Caraguatatuba Region, Southern Brazil.
Karina M. Silva (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil) for her poster presentation Effects of a high carbohydrate or high protein diet on the intermediate metabolism of laboratory-maintained specimens of the crayfish Parastacus sp. n. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae).
Winners received a certificate, a book on Crustacea, US$50, and a one-year membership in TCS (including journal subscription).