Overview of MARS Poster Awards

Year	Event	Winner	Institute	Title of research topic	Award (€)	Presented
MBA – MARS Poster Prizes – EMBS
2018	EMBS 53, Ostend, Belgium	Reyes Salas		Time investment and territorial behaviour of lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus) during the pre-laying period
2018	EMBS 53, Ostend, Belgium	Eva Turicchia		Bioerosion: Seeing the invisible and touching the untouchable
2018	EMBS 53, Ostend, Belgium	Emmanuel Van Acker		Human exposure to algal toxins via sea spray aerosols
2017	EMBS 52, Portorož, Slovenia	Zahra Alsaffar		Soft-sediment macrobenthic assemblages in space and time: exploring patterns of variation in a hypersaline sub-tropical coastal lagoon
2017	EMBS52, Portorož, Slovenia	Jacqueline Jerney		Effect of hypoxia and bioturbation on genetic diversity of phytoplankton seed banks in the Baltic Sea
2017	EMBS 52, Portorož, Slovenia	Samu Elovaara		Changes in bacterial production in relation to annual variation in phytoplankton viability in coastal waters of the northern Baltic Sea
2017	EMBS 52, Portorož, Slovenia	Sandra Thorsen		Fertilizer-derived nitrogen feeds algae bloom after flooding of farmland by managed realignment
2016	EMBS 51, Rhodes, Greece	Paul Kotterba	Thünen lnstitute of Baltic Research, Rostock, Germany	Predator impacts on inshare Baltic herring (Clupea harengus) larvae: Lions, tigers and bears – but where?	250	EMBS51, Poster presentations, Poster 102
2016	EMBS 51, Rhodes, Greece	Nikoletta Digka	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavissos, Greece	Microplastic ingestion in marine biota: A case study in the northern lonian Sea	100	EMBS51, Poster presentations, Poster 15
2016	EMBS 51, Rhodes, Greece	Daniela de Abreu	Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique	Tropical seascapes as feeding grounds for juvenile penaeid shrimps in southern Mozambique revealed by stable isotopes approach	100	EMBS51, Poster presentations, Poster 50
2016	EMBS 51, Rhodes, Greece	Merli Pärnoja	Estonian Marine lnstitute, Tallinn, Estonia	Relating ambient environment to the growth rate of Mytilus trossulus in the northern Baltic Sea.	50	EMBS51, Poster presentations, Poster 08
2016	EMBS 51, Rhodes, Greece	Laura Bray	Marine lnstitute, Plymouth University, UK:	Can offshore structures operate as artificial reefs in the Mediterranean?	50	EMBS51, Poster presentations, Poster 32
2016	EMBS 51, Rhodes, Greece	Giorgos Apostolopoulos	University of Athens, Marine Biology, Athens, Greece	Effects of winter phytoplankton bloom on the meiobenthic community of Maliakos Gulf.	50	EMBS51, Poster presentations, Poster 70
MARS poster prizes – EMBS
Year	Event	Winner	Institute	Title of research topic	Award (€)	Presented
2015	EMBS 50, Helgoland, Germany	Ann Evankow	University of Oslo, Norway	Genetic tools reveal diversity and structure of kelp forests in Norway	250
2015	EMBS 50, Helgoland, Germany	Christopher Gross	Alfred Wegener Institute, Helgoland, Germany	The influence of submerged tetrapods on Helgoland’s subtidal mobile benthic community	100
2015	EMBS 50, Helgoland, Germany	Merle Bollen	University of Bremen, Germany	Artificial substrates inmarine habitats: effects on community composition and seaweed recruitment	100
2014	EMBS 49, St. Petersburg, Russia	Alexei Rolskiy	Knipovic Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Murmansk, Russia	Genetic diversity of beaked redfish (Sebates mentella) populations in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean	200	MARS newsletter 2014 09
2014	EMBS 49, St. Petersburg, Russia	Penelope Wilson	Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, UK	Using ecological groupings to assess the impact of human activities	100	MARS newsletter 2014 09
2014	EMBS 49, St. Petersburg, Russia	Anna Artemieva	St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia	Predators mediate the effect of foundation species in subtidal barnacle clusters	50	MARS newsletter 2014 09
2013	EMBS 48, Galway, Ireland	Chloe Kinsella	School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland	The relation between stormwater pollution and rocky shore assemblages	200	MARS newsletter 2013-09
2013	EMBS 48, Galway, Ireland	Anna-Karin Almen	Abo Akademi University, Finland	Effects of ocean acidification on copepod reproduction and size	100	MARS newsletter 2013-09
2013	EMBS 48, Galway, Ireland	Katrin Bohn	School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, UK	Juvenile mortality, not larval habitat choice determines the non-random distribution of the non-native gastropod Crepidula fornicata in the intertidal zone	50	MARS newsletter 2013-09
2013	EMBS 48, Galway, Ireland	Julia Calderwood	Queens University, Belfast, UK	Effects of transportation stress on the physiological condition of Mytilus edulis and subsequent considerations for the benthic cultivation industry	50	MARS newsletter 2013-09
2012	EMBS 47, Arendal, Norway	Clarissa Fraser	Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities (EICC), University of Sydney, Australia	Limpet orientation in response to changes in barnacle cover	200
2012	EMBS 47, Arendal, Norway	Josefin Sundin	Animal Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden	Dating in murky waters	100
2011	EMBS 46, Rovinj, Croatia	Marie-Caroline Goetze	Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	3-D Reconstruction of eye morphology in Pectinidae	200
2011	EMBS 46, Rovinj, Croatia	Ivana Prusina	Dept. of Aquaculture, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia	Heat shock protein (Hsp70) expression in two congeneric Mediterranean limpets – how much is too much stress	100
2011	EMBS 46, Rovinj, Croatia	Silvija Kipson	Division of Biology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia	Conservation status of the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826) populations from the Eastern Adriatic Sea	100
2010	EMBS 45, Edinburgh, UK	Kerstin Maczassek	Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IfM-Geomar), Kiel, Germany	Germination of bladderwrack Fucus vesiculosus under temperature and salinity stress	250
2010	EMBS 45, Edinburgh, UK	Yasmin Appelhans	Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IfM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany	Young and sour. Seawater acidification influences feeding and growth of juvenile sea stars	100
2010	EMBS 45, Edinburgh, UK	Morgana Tagliarolo	LEMAR-UMR 6539, Plouzané, France	Aerial and underwater CO2 metabolism in intertidal mollusks – Preliminary data	100
2009	EMBS 44, Liverpool, UK	Chris Cesar	School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK	Evaluation of biological traits analysis for the examination of ecosystem functioning	250	MARS newsletter nr 9
2009	EMBS 44, Liverpool, UK	Anna Villnäs	Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Center, Finland	Dead or only almost dead: The importance of increasing stress for benthic ecosystem functioning	100	MARS newsletter nr 9
2008	EMBS 43, Porto Delgade, Azores, Portugal	Christiaan Hummel	Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea research, Netherlands	Size dependent predation of the common sea star (Asterias rubens) on the blue edible mussel (Mytilus edulis)	250	MARS newsletter nr 9
2008	EMBS 43, Porto Delgade, Azores, Portugal	Marina Kuzmanic	Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia	Age and growth of Callista chione L.in the eastern Adriatic Sea	100	MARS newsletter nr 9
2008	EMBS 43, Porto Delgade, Azores, Portugal	Merli Pärnoja	Estonian Marine Institute, Tartu, Estonia	Interactive effects of elevated nutrients and mesoherbivore grazing on photosynthesis-irradiance relationships of macroalgal communities	50	MARS newsletter nr 9
2007	EMBS 42, Kiel, Germany	Pia Norling	Stockholm University, Sweden	Mytilus and red-algae interactions with implications for diversity of associated macrofauna in the Baltic Sea	250	MARS newsletter nr 8
2007	EMBS 42, Kiel, Germany	Bettina Riedel	University of Vienna, Austria	Dead zone: a future coastal scenario for climate change	100	MARS newsletter nr 8
2006	EMBS 41, Cork, Ireland	Karin Troost	IMARES, Yerseke, Netherlands	Are bivalve larvae able to escape bivalve feeding currents?	250	MARS newsletter nr 8
2006	EMBS 41, Cork, Ireland	Lucy Woodall	University of London, UK	Seahorse population subdivision across Europe	100	MARS newsletter nr 8
2005	EMBS 40, Vienna, Austria	Judith Fuchs	University of Vienna, Austria	Neuronal and muscular systems in two Loxosomatidae (Entoprocta)	250	MARS newsletter nr 8
2005	EMBS 40, Vienna, Austria	Anke Oertel	University of Salzburg, Austria	The fauna of Grotta del Bel Torrente, Golfo di Orosei, Sardegna, Italy	100	MARS newsletter nr 8
MARS – Otto Kinne – Lecture Award – EMBS
Year	Event	Name	Institute of winner	Title of research topic	Award (€)	Presented in Newsletter nr.
2006	EMBS 41, Cork, Ireland	Monika Kedra	Institute of Oceanology, Sopot, Poland	Global warming-driven biodiversity change: pelagic versus benthic domain – taxonomic distinctness approach. Arctic (79° N) case study	1500	8
2007	EMBS 42, Kiel, Germany	Rachel Hermand	COM-CNRS, Marseille, France	Differences in response of a Mediterranean benthic community submitted to natural and anthropic high sedimentation	1500	-8
Other Events
Year	Event	Name	Institute of winner	Title of research topic	Award (€)	Presented in Newsletter nr.
2016	the International Temperate Reefs Symposium Pisa, Italy; June 26-30, 2016	Rebecca Mueller	University of Tasmania
2016	the International Temperate Reefs Symposium Pisa, Italy; June 26-30, 2016	Simona Noè	University of Palermo
2015	Poster awards at Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems Conference, Liverpool, UK, 30 August – 4 September 2015
2012	Marine and Coastal Ecosystems conference, Tirana, Albania, 25-28 April 2012	Ivana Prusina	Dept. of Aquaculture, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia	Adaptations to thermal variation in two Mediterranean limpets – cardiac response and haemocyte lysosomal stability	200
2012	Marine and Coastal Ecosystems conference, Tirana, Albania, 25-28 April 2012	Davor Lucic	Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia	Population structure and diel vertical migration of Euphasiids larvae in the open southern Adriatic sea over a short time period (July 2003)	100
2011	The 2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, UK, 26-30 September 2011	Liberty Napilan-Espectato (lnespectato@gmail.com)	Institute of Fisheries Policy and Development Studies, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines	Co-management as a s tool for EBM: the case of Southern Iloilo, Philippines	750
2011	The 2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, UK, 26-30 September 2011	Sware Semesi (sware@udsm.ac.tz)	Univeristy of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	The Effect of Seawater pH on Calcareous Algae Calcification and Productivity	750
2011	The 9th International Temperate Reefs Symposium, Plymouth, UK, 26 June – 1 July 2011	Silvia Saloni	University College Dublin, Ireland	Effects on rockpool assemblages of nutrient stress combined with changes in richness, eveness and functional density of macroalgae tested using simplex approach	200
2011	The 9th International Temperate Reefs Symposium, Plymouth, UK, 26 June – 1 July 2011	Cecelia Baggini	University of Plymouth, UK	Effects of ocean acidification on Mytilus galloprovincialis and Patella caerulea at natural CO2 vents	100