{"id":94740,"date":"2019-04-16T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=94740"},"modified":"2019-04-17T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:03:19","slug":"student-research-symposium-hilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/student-research-symposium-hilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Student research presentations win awards at tropical conservation symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_94767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94767\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-tcbes-symposium-winners.jpg\" alt=\"4 headshots\" width=\"676\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-tcbes-symposium-winners.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-tcbes-symposium-winners-130x46.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-tcbes-symposium-winners-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nicolas Vanderzyl, Tyler Gerken, Karen Gallardo and Kayla Caliboso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> hosted the 11th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/tcbes.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science<\/a> (<abbr>TCBES<\/abbr>) Research Symposium on April 11 and 12. The 2019 event was organized by the <abbr>TCBES<\/abbr> Club, whose members are  graduate students in the program.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s conference, &ldquo;Emerging techniques for research and conservation in a changing planet,&rdquo; was reflected in student research presentations. They highlighted the importance of harnessing cutting-edge science and technology for the benefit of ecosystems that are under stress from climate change and other man-made threats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94727\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-research-symposium-speaker-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"speaker speaking at conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-research-symposium-speaker-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-research-symposium-speaker-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-research-symposium-speaker-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-research-symposium-speaker.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: Raiatea Arcuri, <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A panel of judges awarded prizes for the best presentations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best 5-minute talk: <strong>Nicolas Vanderzyl<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo<\/li>\n<li>Best graduate 15-minute talk: <strong>Karen Gallardo<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo <\/li>\n<li>Best undergraduate 15-minute talk: <strong>Tyler Gerken<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo <\/li>\n<li>Best poster: <strong>Kayla Caliboso<\/strong>, Leeward Community College<\/li>\n<li>Honorable mentions: <strong>Duke Escobar<\/strong>, <strong>Keinan Agonias<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Morrissey<\/strong> and <strong>Misa Webber<\/strong> at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo and <strong>Valeria Alicea-Colon<\/strong>, Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference featured keynote speakers Paula Ayotte, marine biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and <strong>John Burns<\/strong>, coral biologist and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo assistant professor of marine science.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <abbr>TCBES<\/abbr> symposium provides an excellent platform for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research activities,&rdquo; said Burns. &ldquo;Our students work across a dynamic range of environmental systems and perform some truly incredible work, and this symposium plays a key role in allowing them to share their findings with broader audiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2019\/04\/15\/11th-annual-student-research-symposium\/\">For more on the symposium, go to <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Written by <strong>Leah Sherwood<\/strong>, a graduate student in the tropical conservation biology and environmental science program at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo hosted the 11th annual Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Research Symposium on April 11 and 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[660,232,14,907],"class_list":["post-94740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-student-recognition","tag-tropical-conservation-biology-and-environmental-science","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94740"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94797,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94740\/revisions\/94797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}