Student Corner
Poster and Presentation Awards
Not only will you share your exciting work with researchers in environmental toxicology and chemistry at the NorCal SETAC annual meeting, but students will have the opportunity to win presentation prizes!
Not only will you share your exciting work with researchers in environmental toxicology and chemistry at the NorCal SETAC annual meeting, but students will have the opportunity to win presentation prizes!
- 1st place poster = $300, 1st place presentation = $300
- 2nd place poster = $150, 2nd place presentation = $150
- 3rd place poster = $75, 3rd place presentation = $75
Research Scholarship Awards
NorCal SETAC offers annual scholarship awards for both graduate and undergraduate students. Students attending universities and colleges in the NorCal SETAC region conducting research on topics related to environmental toxicology and chemistry, and the environmental sciences in general, are eligible to apply. In addition to the monetary awards, students determined to have the first, second, and third best proposals will also receive a one year membership to NorCal SETAC. Applications are usually due in the Spring of each year.
NorCal SETAC offers annual scholarship awards for both graduate and undergraduate students. Students attending universities and colleges in the NorCal SETAC region conducting research on topics related to environmental toxicology and chemistry, and the environmental sciences in general, are eligible to apply. In addition to the monetary awards, students determined to have the first, second, and third best proposals will also receive a one year membership to NorCal SETAC. Applications are usually due in the Spring of each year.
- Graduate Scholarship = $2,000
- Undergraduate Scholarship = $1,000
2020 Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to our 2020 scholarship awardees, Nicole Egan (undergraduate) and Aaron Ninokawa (graduate)! The proposals were chosen for their quality, originality, and creativity, as well as their approach and scientific methods. With these awards, Nicole and Aaron will be able to fund their pilot projects and travel to research sites or other labs. The NorCal SETAC Board of Directors thanks our Sustaining Members for making the awards possible.
Congratulations to our 2020 scholarship awardees, Nicole Egan (undergraduate) and Aaron Ninokawa (graduate)! The proposals were chosen for their quality, originality, and creativity, as well as their approach and scientific methods. With these awards, Nicole and Aaron will be able to fund their pilot projects and travel to research sites or other labs. The NorCal SETAC Board of Directors thanks our Sustaining Members for making the awards possible.
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Nicole’s proposal is an exposure study of Daphnia magna to environmentally relevant concentrations of Imidacloprid (IMI). This data will allow for a connection between mechanistic gene expression data and population level effects that are extrapolated from both swimming behavior changes and reproduction tests. This is especially important since IMI has been found at relatively high levels at long term California Department of Pesticide Regulation monitoring sites, and there is a lack of literature on the effects of IMI on the behavior, and reproduction of model aquatic organisms.
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Increased anthropogenic CO2 is changing the chemistry of surface waters around the world. This can especially impact biological processes such as calcification, or calcium carbonate shell formation. Aaron’s proposal will use a method that can decouple the normally highly correlated components of the dissolved carbonate system to identify specific chemical components that most influence shell formation in some representative bivalves. This work will lead to a better understanding of the diversity and evolution of calcification mechanisms.
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Past NorCal SETAC Student Scholarship Recipients
Year |
Undergraduate |
Graduate |
2013 |
Zeka Kuspa, UC Santa Cruz Keith Bouma-Gregson, UC Berkeley |
Jeffrey Miller, UC Davis |
2014 |
Lee Hovey, UC Berkeley |
Simone Hasenbein, UC Davis |
2015 |
Jade Peralta, UC Davis Ruth Hwang, UC Davis |
Brittany Jellison, UC Davis |
2016 |
Tianxia (Margaret) Xiao, UC Berkeley |
Gisele Miglioranza Rizzi, UC Santa Cruz |
2017 |
Elizabeth Berry, UC Davis |
Zane Mortenson, CSU Monterey Bay |
2019 |
Bahtia Bilow, UC Santa Cruz |
Leila Harris, UC Davis |
