Upcoming event: 14th Annual Rottnest Student Workshop 15-16th June. Email amsarotto@gmail.com for further information.
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AMSA WA Honours Prize Night 2017
The Honours Prize night was well attended by AMSA members from universities, goverment and industry.
Seven abstracts were submiited this year from Murdoch University and UWA. Five finalists were chosen, of which four presented their research to the marine science community. Congratulations to all the finalists!
Thanks go to BMT Oceanica and CARDNO for sponsoring the event.
1st Place- Molly Moustaka
The negative influence of suspended sediment on a fish assemblage in northwest Australia (UWA)
2nd Place- Cameron Desfosses
The significance of macroalgae to the diets of juvenile fish and ecosystem function in a tropical coral reef lagoon (Murdoch)
3rd Place-Tim Walker
Characteristics of the fish fauna of artificial reefs in Geographe Bay determined from video footage collected by recreational fishers (Murdoch)
4th Place- Amy Kirke
Please Sir Can I Have Some More? The feeding habits of the urchin Centrostephanus tenuispinus on Hall Bank Reef, Fremantle, Western Australia (Murdoch)
Proposed AMSA WA activities for 2017 (dates are subject to change)
Event | Proposed date |
AGM and Honours Prize Night | 5 April |
Rottnest Is. Student Workshop | 15-16 June
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Marine Snapchat | September
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| Christmas Party
| December
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WA Branch Contact Details 2017-18
Chair | Alicia | Sutton | |
Vice Chair | TBA |
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Treasurer | Tiffany | Simpson | |
Secretary | Simone | Strydom | |
General Committee | Matthew | Harvey | matt@oceanvision.com.au
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| James | Tweedley | |
| Ben | Roennfeldt | |
| Jo | Buckee | |
| Sarah | Marley | sarah.marley86@gmail.com |
| Elizabeth | Sinclair | esinclair@iinet.net.au |
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Student Representatives | Caitlin | Rae | c.rae@ecu.edu.au
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Sian | Glazier | S.Glazier@murdoch.edu.au | |
| Krista | Nicholson | K.Nicholson@murdoch.edu.au | |
| Harriet | Davies | |
| Brodee | Elsdon | brelsdon@gmail.com
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