Student Activities and Awards

Student Activities

Student Lunch: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 – 12:00 p.m.

Students will be able to meet each other and enjoy lunch while listening to a talk by Brian Timms, President of ISSLR, about saline lake research in Australia.  Lunch will be provided. 

Career Panel:  Tuesday, May 13, 2008 – Evening (~1.5 hours)

Students will have the opportunity to learn about various careers held by meeting participants.  Professionals from different types of jobs will describe their current work, discuss
critical skills and attributes needed for their positions, and give helpful advice and information to interested students.  There will be a question and answer session as well as an open time for socialization among students and professionals.  

W.D. Williams Award for Student Presentations

The award is presented to superior student presentations (oral and poster) at ISSLR conferences.  This award was established in memory of W.D. (Bill) Williams (1936-2002), a distinguished limnologist and advocate for salt lakes research and
conservation. 

He became a leading pioneer for limnology in Australia, and was appointed Professor of Zoology at
the University of Adelaide in 1974 and Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 1994.  Throughout his long and distinguished career, Bill became an international leader in limnology and conservation of inland waters throughout the world.  His exuberance and love of science was infectious and inspired a generation of new limnologists.   Past winners: Michelle Hindle (Univ. Wollongong, NSW), Lien Sim (Murdoch Univ., WA), Courtney Salm (Univ. Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI, USA) 

Doyle W. Stephens Scholarship

The Doyle Stephens Scholarship will be presented at the conference banquet.  FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established the scholarship to celebrate Doyle's remarkable scientific contributions toward understanding the Great Salt Lake. This scholarship provides support to undergraduate or graduate students engaged in new or on-going research that furthers the understanding or protection of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem.