Congrats to the winners of the AMLC student presentation awards at this year’s meeting! And to all the students who presented their research - all of the presentations were excellent! Bert and Lucy Williams Student Achievement Awards- Oral Presentations: 1st Place- Fabiola Rivera Irizarry from the University of Puerto Rico - Prevalence and incidence of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) varies geographically in Puerto Rico 2nd Place- Krista Laforest from NOVA Southeastern University - Induced sexual reproduction reveals bidirectional sex change of gonochoristic coral Montastrea cavernosa 3rd Place- Natasha Bestrom from the University of the Virgin Islands - Investigating microbial communities associated with white pox disease in Acropora palmata populations in the U.S. Virgin Islands Ivan Goodbody Student Achievement Awards Poster Presentations 1st Place- Krista Laforest - Spawning asynchrony of staghorn corals: are night lights and temperatures to blame? 2nd Place- Stephanie Gunby - The ingestion response of corallimorphs to microplastics 3rd Place- Robert Bourne - Assessment of the distribution and population growth of the potentially invasive Indo-Pacific suncoral Tubastrea in Barbados (fb)

AMLC 40th meeting poster session! (fb)