14 JUNE 2025 • WORLD AQUACULTURE • WWW.WAS.ORG Aquaculture 2025 Student Travel and Presentation Award Winners Allen Pattillo and Nicole Rhody The Aquaculture 2025 conference in New Orleans, LA was a huge success with record breaking student participation. The United States Aquaculture Society (USAS) regularly gives away both pre-conference travel awards and post-conference student poster and oral presentation awards. Travel awards are intended to provide support for USAS student members to attend and present at the conference. These awards are judged based on the abstract submitted and the specific criteria for individual awards. The best student abstract award winners from each participating organization are presented below. Student Travel Awards Best Student Abstract Award Winners: American Fisheries Society – Fish Culture Section • Travis Knorr – “Beyond Brine Shrimp: Feed Attractants and Liquid Artemia Replacement Diets for the Culture of the Albino Rainbow Sharkminnow Epalzeorhynchos frenatum.” • Alex Wright – “Composition of California’s Aquaculture Industry: Disease Management Strategies and Implications for Animal Welfare.” • Hilla Turbowicz – “Exploring Plasmid-Based Hormonal Treatment to Induce Puberty in Late-Maturing Female Fish.” National Shellfisheries Association • Max Zavell – “An Estimate of Carbon Storage Capabilities from Wild and Cultured Shellfish in the Northwest Atlantic and Their Potential Inclusion in a Carbon Economy.” • Hannah Collins – “Tissue-Specific Resident and Transient Microbial Communities of the Freshwater Unionid Elliptio complanata.” • Emma Coltman – “Modeling Larval Performance of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Under Field Conditions: In Situ Size Profiles of the Food Assemblage in the Western Mississippi Sound.” United States Aquaculture Society • Nick Beswick-Seidl – “A High-Resolution Look at Milk Conch Macrostrombus costatus Fecundity and Egg Mass Morphometrics.” • Fatin Fahim – “Alleviating Ammonia Toxicity in Catfish Farming: Protective Role of Elevated Water pH on Growth and Physiological Performance.” • Kyle Wood – “Paternal Impacts on Industry-Relevant Offspring Performance Traits Using Blue Catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, Cryopreserved Sperm.” World Aquaculture Society • Leticia Cardoso Madureira Tavares – “Evaluating the Use of Agricultural By-Products as Carbon Sources for Denitrification in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems.” • Sunnia Chiang – “Effects of Soybean Meal, Enzyme Treated Soybean Meal and Corn-Fermented Protein Meal in the Diets on Grow-Out Stage of Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus Culturing in Pond Raceways System.” • Hectorina Rodulfo – “Limitations of Implementation of RNA interference (RNAi) in Shrimp Aquaculture.” The Aquaculture 2025 pre-conference travel awards were sponsored by our generous industry partners (Soy Aquaculture Alliance, Aquatic Equipment and Design, NxT Horizon, and Ecological Aquaculture), sister societies (American Fisheries Society-Fish Culture Section), and the USAS (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, best student abstracts, and Subunit Travel Best student abstract award winners and student spotlight presenters for Aquaculture 2025. LEFT TO RIGHT: Leticia Cardoso Madureira Tavares, Hannah Collins, Fatin Fahim, Sunnia Chiang, Hilla Turbowicz, Travis Knorr, Emma Coltman, Kyle Wood, Nick Beswick-Siedl, Alex Wright.
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