Graduate Student Wins Award at National Conference

Lauren McCarthy, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Dave Chalcraft‘s lab, was selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America Aquatic Ecology Section Best Student Talk Award at the 2014 annual conference held in early August. The judges were unanimously impressed with her study entitled ‘How do differences in species hatching phenology and the presence of predators affect population and ecosystem levels of aquatic food webs?