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Hillary Hernandez, Tolmas Scholar in CBEL, won third place for her student poster presentation at UNO Innovate Conference . Her research describes the development of fouling communities in two saline waters. Congrats Hillary (and Sable)! 
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​8/2024 CONGRATULATIONS to Anastasia Konefal for successfully defending her PhD dissertation!
5/2024 UNO's CBEL, Nicola Anthony as well as Just Cebrian received funding through Mote Marine Lab from the Florida Seagrass Restoration Technology Development Initiative to  examine the role of seagrass genetic variation and genotypic identity in enhancing primary productivity and conferring resilience to common abiotic stressors of low-light and high-heat for Halodule wrightii, the seagrass species most used in restoration in the Gulf of Mexico. ​
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​ 3/2024  A​nastasia Konefal was selected for the National Academy of Sciences' Gulf Research Program Science Policy Fellowship!!!  For the fellowship she will get placed in one of 14 potential host offices all doing science-policy related work with the Gulf of Mexico region. It is a year-long fellowship starting in September. She is currently in the process of interviewing with the different offices for placement. 
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2/18/2024 CBEL@UNO is attending the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans. Anastasia Konefal is doing an e-lighting talk on seagrass genetics and its role in the maintenance of primary productivity. 



​Amanda Kirkland is presenting a poster presentation on trophic structure at artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico and a presentation about 
ICONEC: International Carbon Ocean Network for Early Career. ** Note the logo artwork done by UNO student Emalee Swisshelm** She is amazing! 

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11/2023 Congratulations to Amanda Kirkland for receiving the Knauss Fellowship 2024! UNO made a nice video of Amanda to celebrate! Way to Go! First LA Sea Grant Knauss Fellow from UNO! 
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9/16/2022 Congratulations to Amanda Kirkland for winning best presentation for her session at the High CO2 World in Lima, Peru

​9/13-9/16/2022 Amanda Kirkland received a travel subsidy funded by US NOAA, NASA and NSF to support her travel to 5th International Symposium on the Ocean in High CO2 World in Lima, Peru where she will share her research on the sensitivity of reef invertebrate species in the northern Gulf of Mexico to ocean warming and ocean acidification. ​
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​8/7 - 8/12/2022 ​Anastasia Konefal presented her research at her first in-person, international conference as a PhD candidate. The title of her poster was  “Changes in Halodule wrightii metabolism, photo-physiology, and gene expression after a major hurricane”. ​
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​2021-2022-Congratulations to Anastasia for receiving a Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research!
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9/1/2021 Erin Cox and Anastasia Konefal and other collaborators are awarded a cooperative agreement (award # NA21NOS4510172) with the NOAA RESTORE Science Program to develop actionable science to build resiliency for seagrass beds. To learn more go here: ​https://restoreactscienceprogram.noaa.gov/projects/seagrass-restoration-resiliency

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​8/3/2020 - Amanda Kirkland is one of the recipients of the LA Sea Grant -NOAA Graduate Research Fellowship in Ocean, Coastal and Estuarine Acidification. ​
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​9/9/2019 - Esra presented at the University of New Orleans Biology Department Seminar discussing her work at Ege University which included pharmaceuticals, algal eyespots, and marine conservation. ​
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