Student Travel Awards

The SWS 26^th Annual Meeting organizing committee offered a number of student travel awards to the Charleston meeting.  In addition, the South Atlantic Chapter offered four travel awards of $500 each to graduate student South Atlantic Chapter members and two awards of $500 each to undergraduate South Atlantic Chapter student members to present their research at the Charleston meeting.

To have been eligible, the student must have been enrolled in a public or private university located within the South Atlantic Chapter’s region and must have been a member of SWS.  The Chapter’s Awards and Executive Committees judged the applicants based on the scientific quality and importance of their research as described in the abstract.

Also check out our student poster and oral presentation awardees!

2005 Student Travel Award Recipients:

• Shuwen Li, a PhD student who gave a presentation on "Effects of soil flooding on root oxygenation and growth in black willow cuttings."
• Katie Hossler, a Masters student who gave a presentation on "Can created wetlands successfully mitigate natural wetland carbon sequestration?"
• Joe Baustian, a Masters student who gave a presentation on "Restoration of backfilled canals."
• Jeorg Helmschrot, a PhD student who gave a presentation and poster on ""Geophysical and sedimentological studies to model wetland evolution in a landscape perspective:  A case study from South Africa" and "Integrated modeling of landscape dynamics and their temporal and spatial effects on wetland hydrology:  A case study from South Africa."
• Jianbiao (Jeff) Lu, a PhD student who gave a presentation on "Modeling the hydrology of forested wetlands in the Southeastern United States."
• Amy Seim, a Masters student who's study is "Response of Red Maple to altered hydroperiods in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge."
• Lawrance Oats, a PhD student who gave a presentation on "Methane flux from three plant communities in a southern Wisconsin wetland."
• Laura Shirley, a Masters student who showed a poster on "Historic and current rates of vegetation change in coastal transitions along the northern Gulf of Mexico."
• David Bailey, a Masters student who showed a poster on "Aeschynomene virginica."