Robert T. Wilce Graduate Paper Award

2010--Molly Letch (Louise Lewis). U. Conn. Four chloroplast gene arrangements in a closely related group of Trebouxiophyceae (Chlorophyta).

2009--Bridgette Clarkson (Gary Saunders). U. New Brunswick. A comparison of DNA barcode markers for species discrimination in marine red algae.

2008--Nathan J. Smucker (Morgan Vis). Ohio U. Acid mine drainage & agricultural impacts on stream diatom communities.

2008--Yen-Chun Liu (Donald Cheney).Northeastern U. Regulation of polyunsaturated fatty acid production in the red marine alga Porphyra yezoensis.

2007--Jessica F. Muhlin (Susan H. Brawley). U. Maine. Earth wind and ?: Processes affecting genetic structure in an intertidal alga.

Francis R. Trainor Graduate Poster Award (changed from Robert T. Wilce Graduate Poster Award for 2010)

2010 Jeremy Nettleton (Chris Neefus. U. New Hampshire. Using macroalgae to track environmental changes in the Great Bay estuarine system

2009--Susan Clayden (Gary Saunders). U. New Brunswick. “Birds of a feather”: Molecular phylogenetic analyses and novel life history interpretations ally Colaconema subimmersum and Halosacciocolax kjellmanii with the Rhodophysemataceae (Palmariales, Rhodophyta).

2008--Jennifer Day (Chris Neefus).U New Hampshire.

2007--Malcom McFarland (Jan Rines). U. Rhode Island. Automated image analysis of autotrophic picoplankton.

President's Award

2010--Elizabeth Cianiciola (Craig Schneider)Molecular-assisted alpha taxonomy of the Centroceras clavulatum complex’ (Ceramiales, Ceramiaceae) in Bermuda, western Atlantic.

2009--Elizabeth Sargent (Brian Wysor).Roger Williams U. Oral presentation: Assessing the species richness of Dictyota from Caribbean Panama using a DNA barcoding approach.

2008--Jonathan Neilson (Gary Saunders) U. New Brunswick. Oral presentation: Light stress-related gene discovery in Euglena gracilis using an expressed sequence tag approach.

2008--Sara Hall (Susan H. Brawley). U. Maine . Poster:

2007--Laura Lambiase (David S. Domozych). Skidmore Coll. Poster: Polar cell growth and cell wall development in the desmid Penium margaritaceum: Pectin dynamics.

Complete list of past awardees