DURHAM, N.C. – Seven students have received recognition for presenting the best talks or posters at the 2005 Student Conference on Conservation Science, held March 16-18 at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû.

The conference attracted more than 100 of the top graduate students in conservation science from 13 countries in North, South and Central America.

A panel of five judges selected the top three talks and posters. The judges, who presented plenary talks at the conference, were Dr. Paul Ehrlich, director of Stanford University’s Center for Conservation Biology; Dr. Daniel Simberloff, director of the University of Tennessee’s Institute for Biological Invasions; Dr. David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University; Dr. John Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science at the Nicholas School and director of Duke’s Center for Tropical Conservation; and Dr. Stuart Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School.

2005 SCCS Awards

POSTERS 
3rd Place
Bruce Bell
91ÉçÇø¸£Àû
United States
Predicting Tropical Deforestation from Road Proximity and Land Cover History in the Amazon Basin

Haley Houghton
Marlboro College
United States
The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Lemur Populations in Madagascar

2nd Place
Shelia Walsh 
University of California at San Diego
United States
Using Connectivity to Identify Trade-Offs Between Resource Uses on the Mesoamerican Reef

1st Place
Catherine Gamba Trimino 
University Javeriana
Colombia
The Potential of Prestocea Acuminata (Palmae) for Palm Heart Extractivism in Colombian Andes

TALKS 
3rd Place 
Boris Liu 
91ÉçÇø¸£Àû
United States
Habitat Loss and Fragmentation for Fossa in Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar

2nd Place
Braulio Santos
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Brazil
Creation of Forest Edges and the Impoverishment of Fragmented Landscapes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

1st Place

Chris Golden

Harvard University

United States

Mammal Hunting and the Bushmeat Trade in Madagascar’s Makira Forest