For the first time in this conference series, we have recognized the outstanding efforts of students who presented their research results in a poster or platform format. Over 300 students registered for this year’s conference and participated in the global discussion on mercury pollution. The following five students were presented with awards for their achievements in presenting their results:

Outstanding Student Platform Presentation
Jill Van Walleghem
Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
for
“Estimating the Loss of Mercury from Prey and Predatory Fish Species in the Wild”
by Jill Van Walleghem, Paul Blanchfield, Holger Hintelmann

Outstanding Student Poster Presentations
Carrie Miller
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
for
“Techniques to Investigate the Mechanism Involved in the Interactions of Hg, Sulfide and DOM”
by Carrie Miller , Robert Mason, Cynthia Gilmour, Andrew Heyes

Melitza Crespo-Medina
Rutgers University
for
“Interactions of Chemosynthetic Bacteria with Mercury at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents”
by Melitza Crespo-Medina, Nicolas Bloom, Aspasia Chatziefthimiou, John Reinfelder, Costantino Vetriani, Tamar Barkay

Maria Andersson
Göteborg University, Sweden
for
“Continuous Measurements of Elemental Mercury in Surface Water in the Arctic Ocean”
by Maria Andersson, Jonas Sommar, Katarina Gårdfeldt

K. Kritee
Rutgers University
for
“The Measurement of Microbial Mercury Stable Isotope Fractionation and Its Potential Utility for Distinguishing between Hg Sources”
by
K. Kritee, Joel Blum, Tamar Barkay, Marcus Johnson, Bridget Bergquist

The conference organizers appreciate the efforts of Dr. Mark Sandheinrich, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse for coordinating the student review and the 130 conferees who participated in reviewing student platform and poster presentations.