WWW.WAS.ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • JUNE 2025 17 FACING PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Best student presentation awards for oral and poster presentations at Aquaculture 2025. Spencer Kubo – 1st Place Oral, Nelson Parajuli – 2nd Place Oral, Calyton Mabey – 3rd Place Oral, Luke Matvey – Sea Grant Award, Anissa Overly – YSI/Xylem Award. Yahminiy S.R. Mohan – 1st Place (tie) Poster. THIS PAGE, TOP: Fahime Abbasinohoji – First Place (tie) Poster. BOTTOM: Branalysa Varela – 3rd Place Poster. spotlight session at Aquaculture 2025. The lightning talks were judged by a live audience and the top three spotlight presentations were given an additional cash award. The student spotlight presenters and award winners are as follows. Student Spotlight Award Winners: • First Place – Travis Knorr – “Beyond Brine Shrimp: Feed Attractants and Liquid Artemia Replacement Diets for the Culture of the Albino Rainbow Sharkminnow Epalzeorhynchos frenatum.” • Second Place – Fatin Fahim – “Alleviating Ammonia Toxicity in Catfish Farming: Protective Role of Elevated Water pH on Growth and Physiological Performance.” • Third Place – Alex Wright – “Composition of California’s Aquaculture Industry: Disease Management Strategies and Implications for Animal Welfare.” The top three student oral and poster presentations receive cash awards for their excellent presentations. Additionally, NOAA Sea Grant and YSI/Xylem sponsor special awards for the best student oral presentation for research related to their respective missions. The NOAA Sea Grant award goes to a student presenting aquaculture research from a coastal or Great Lakes state. YSI/Xylem is a newly established student presentation award sponsor, and their award goes to student research on water quality, environmental stewardship, or RAS/aquaponic technological advancements. Best Student Oral Presentation Winners: • First Place – Spencer Kubo – “The Effects of Protein Coated Microparticulate Diets (PCMD) on The Growth, Survival, WholeBody Nutrient Concentrations and Protein Regulation of California Yellowtail Seriola dorsalis Larvae.” • Second Place – Nelson Parajuli – “Predator and Prey Density Impacts Larval Performance of Largemouth Bass in an Indoor Recirculating Aquaculture System.” • Third Place – Clayton Mabey – “Determining the Optimal Macronutrient Requirements for Juvenile White Sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus Growout Diets Using a Mixture Design.” • Sea Grant Award – Luke Matvey – “Seabird Interactions with Floating Oyster Gear and Camplyobacter Prevelance at Oyster Farming Sites.” • YSI / Xylem Award – Anissa Overly – “Continued Analysis of Metal Ions in Closed Loop Aquaponics.” Best Student Poster Presentation Winners: • First Place (tie) – Yahminiy S.R.Mohan – “The Detection of Mercury in Invasive Carp Tissue Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer Triple Quadropole: Are Carps a Viable Source of Fishmeal in Aquafeed?” • First Place (tie) – Fahime Abbasinohoji – “Evaluating Freshwater Sponges as Passive Samplers for Heavy Metal Pollution in Louisiana.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE 18) Student Presentation Awards Presentation awards are intended to recognize and reward students for their oral and/or poster presentations and are judged at the conference based on a standard rubric provided to the judges. Recipients of presentation awards are notified after the conference, once the judges have had an opportunity to confer. During the conference, the top three student abstracts from each society (WAS, USAS, NSA, AFS-FCS) received a cash award and were invited to present a lightning talk during the student
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