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STUDENT AWARDS AT THE 2009 ANNUAL MEETING

Once again, the presentations by the 12 student award finalists were a highlight of SCB's annual meeting. The talks covered a broad geography, from China to Colombia. Geographic range was matched by the breadth of topics, which included invasive species, climate change, and habitat degradation. We also had an inspirational plenary talk from Marika Tuiwawa, the Curator of the South Pacific Regional Herbarium at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and a recipient of one of SCB's Distinguished Service Awards.

Selecting students for the oral presentation awards begins in January and involves a great deal of effort by members of SCB and its staff. The Student Affairs Committee thanks all those who offered their time and expertise to this process. We particularly thank the six judges who attended the student finalist presentations for their care and diligence. We also extend our thanks to our sponsor, Wiley-Blackwell, for making these awards possible. The judging process was extremely difficult bearing in mind the exceptional quality of all the talks, and all of our finalists were awardees.

Please join us in congratulating the following students:

First place -- Oscar Venter, University of Queensland, Australia
Conserving biodiversity through global efforts to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation

Second place -- Krithi Karanth, Columbia University, USA
The shrinking ark: large mammal extinctions in India reserve

Third place -- Ian Craigie, University of Cambridge, UK
Large vertebrate population declines in Africa's protected areas

Fourth place -- Danielle Shanahan, University of Queensland, Australia
Predicting population responses to changing land-use: do general rules in landscape ecology work?

Student Award Finalists

Bernard Coetzee, Stellenbosch University, South Africa: Ensemble models predict important bird areas to be less effective for conserving endemic birds under climate change

Nyeema Harris, North Carolina State University, USA: Coextinction dynamics in carnivore parasites

Dingcheng Huang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: Quarantine efforts should emphasize on developed regions and important points of entry to prevent new invasions of alien insects

Erin McCreless, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA: Prioritizing investments in island conservation using global data on biodiversity, business, and corruption

Jennifer Moslemi, Cornell University, USA: Using invasive snails as biocontrol agents: guardians of human health of threat to nutrient cycling in tropical streams

Fortunata Msoffe, International Livestock Research Institute & the University of Edinburgh, UK: Drivers and impacts of land-use change in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania

Marie Tremblay, University of Alberta, Canada: Permeability of common urban features to the movement of urban songbirds

Jorge Velasquez-Tibata, Stony Brook University, USA: Assessing the impact of climate change on birds of conservation concern in Colombia

Poster Awards
sponsored by Animal Conservation

First place -- Ginger Allington, Saint Louis University
Reversal of desertification is associated with a loss of islands of fertility and changes physical and chemical properties in the soil

Second prize-- Larissa Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo
Distinct evolutionary lineages in the South American fur seal, Arctocephalus australis: insights for its systematics and conservation

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