Student poster awards

January 26, 2011

University Relations

Three School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences students won best student poster awards at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage. SFOS students earned three out of the four awards sponsored by the North Pacific Research Board.


  • Mandy Keogh is a Ph.D. student studying marine biology with Shannon Atkinson. Her poster was called “Body condition and endocrine profiles of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups during the early postnatal period.”

  • Shiway Wang is also a Ph.D. student in marine biology. Her advisor is Matthew Wooller. Her poster was on “Compound-specific stable isotope analyses of fatty acids in primary production from the Bering Sea: a foundation for food web biomarker studies.”

  • Wesley Strasburger is a master’s degree student studying fisheries with former SFOS faculty member Nicola Hillgruber. His poster was “A comparison of feeding patterns between larval and juvenile walleye pollock and Pacific cod in the eastern Bering Sea.”