NSU Currents Fall 2014 Newsletter - Volume XXV, Issue 2

9 Ph.D. Student Receives Scholarship for Oil Spill Conference OC Alumnus Awarded 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation NSUOCalumnus DamianChapman (M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2007), assistant professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and assistant director for science at the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, was recently awarded the 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. This prestigious international fellowship is given to five individuals each year. Applications are by appointment only, and a panel of prominent international experts selects the award winners. As a Pew fellow, Chapman’s new research project will focus on how recently enacted international regulations affect trade in the fins of protected shark species. The project will identify regions where more effort is needed to enforce protections for sharks listed under the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species. For more information, visit www.pewtrusts.org . Damian Chapman, Ph.D., OC alumnus, with a silky shark ( Carcharhinus falciformis ) in the Bahamas Ph.D. candidate Abigail Renegar , M.S., received a full scholarship to attend the 2014 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) that was held May 5–8, 2014, in Savannah, Georgia. As part of the scholarship, she also attended a preconference short course on environmental tradeoffs focusing on protected species, including corals and coral reefs. IOSC is part of a triennial series of events that provide a forum for oil spill response professionals, government agencies, researchers, and industry to exchange knowledge and ideas on oil spill prevention, response, and restoration. International Oil Spill Conference 2014 Prevent • Prepare • Respond • Restore Savannah, Georgia, USA | May 5-8