CMAST Students Go Global!
Buckel Lab Graduate Students Present at International Conference in Lithuania.
Big shoutout to Buckel Lab grad students, Bethany Wager and Ryan Tharp, who traveled all the way to Lithuania last month for the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Annual Science Conference!
Thanks to WHOI’s early career international travel funding, Bethany presented the first two chapters of her research, marking her very first international conference! She presented both a poster and an oral presentation titled “Identifying drivers of fish communities at natural and artificial reefs during changing ocean conditions.”
Bethany also dove into a species distribution modeling workshop and made plans to get involved with ICES working groups. Exciting times ahead!
Ryan attended his second ICES conference this year, after first participating in ICES 2022 in Dublin, Ireland! He enjoys how “the research topics and conversations differ from U.S.-based conferences, making every interaction engaging.”
This year Ryan gave two talks, one from his first dissertation chapter, “Artificial reef structure selection by reef fishes: the importance of structure characteristics,” and another from upcoming chapters, “Influence of vital rate magnitude on bias and precision in telemetry-based multistate models.”
