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AAUS Foundation Scholarship Awards 2022

The AAUS Foundation offers competitive research scholarships to both doctoral-level students and master’s-level students who utilize scientific diving as a principal research tool or study scientific diving. First place awards for both program levels are $3000; second place awards are $1500. In 2022 a total of 23 proposals were reviewed. Proposals included research in ecosystems from kelp forests to coral reefs and spanned disciplines from genetics to archaeological resource management. Special thanks to the 15 reviewers, and best wishes to all who participated. If you know of a student who could benefit from an AAUS graduate scholarship, direct them to the Foundation website for more details. Next year's round of proposals will be due on 30 June 2023. Full bios of the 2022 scholars can be found at https://aausfoundation.org/

Doctoral-level Awards
1st place Jordan Sims, George Mason University: Comparing genotypic diversity of two coral restoration programs to wild populations in Roatán, Honduras
2nd place Yifan Li, Pennsylvania State University: Assessing microbiome influences on coral stress tolerance on a highly polluted, turbid Caribbean reef

Master’s-level Awards
1st place Cheyne Springbett, Walla Walla University: Digging in: an investigation of burrowing behavior in Muusoctopus leioderma
2nd place Keenan Guillas, San Jose State University: The behaviour and energetics of demosponges in response to suspended sediments

Find out more about all the AAUS Foundation Scholars at www.aausfoundation.org.

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