2017 ACCOBAMS – ECS Student Award

The ACCOBAMS Permanent Secretariat is pleased to inform you about the 5 students who received the 2017 ACCOBAMS – ECS Student Award at the occasion of a Ceremony held on the 3^rd May 2017, in Middelfart, Denmark.

Best Oral: Jeppe KACZMAREK – Drivers of the dive Responses in Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina)

Best short talk: Tilen GENOV – polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in free ranging common bottlenose dolphins from the northern Adriatic Sea, in relation to demographic parameters

Best poster (postgraduate): Christian RIISAGER-PEDERSEN – Mapping Danish marine mammal ecotourism, & Anna SCHLEIMER – The importance of correcting effort for “handling time” in species distribution models from non-dedicated surveys

Best poster (undergraduate): Michael RAGKOUSIS – The seasonal buoyancy budget of harbour porpoises during dives

Each student was provided with one hundred euros award and with the ACCOBAMS book “Whales, dolphins and porpoises of the Mediterranean and Black Seas – 2010 a status report”.