WOW What a great bunch of Applicants ! We decided on THREE winners this year.

1ST Matthew R. Thomas, Southern Illinois University
Fishes of the Green River Bioreserve, Kentucky: An Examination of Stability and Persistence over the past Century. Click here to see his project.

2nd Megan Hagler, University of Georgia monitoring the 5 species of endangered and threatened fishes in the upper Etowah River -- a study prompted by the building of a dam on Yellow Creek, a major trib to the Etowah. Click here to see her project.

2nd Jennifer McDonald, University of So. Mississippi
Reproductive behavior and aggression of non-native mouthbrooding Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) toward native centrarchids: potential competition for nesting space? Click here to see her project


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