Students Presentations Award

We extend our congratulations to all the students who are contributing to the knowledge of shorebirds. A special recognition goes to the recipients of the Student Presentation Awards.

  • Best presentation Award

    Lindsay F. Hermanns

    Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech

    Talk titled “Breeding site weather and non-breeding habitat affect the survival of an Arctic-Breeding Shorebird”

  • Runner-up Presentation Awards

    Sophia M. Fraser

    Mount Allison University

    Presented about the "Effects of severe weather on staging juvenile semipalmated plovers: evidence of disrupted refueling and delayed departures in the Western Atlantic Flyway"


  • Best Poster Presentation Award

    Mount Allison University

    Poster presentation titled “Microplastics in Red Knot habitat, prey, and feces at Banco dos Cajuais WHSRN site, Ceará, Brazil”


  • Runner-up Poster presentation

    Julian Garcia Walther

    Pronatura Noroeste & University of Massachusetts,

    Poster presentation titled “The first Motus network in NW Mexico”