Josh and Ethan - Recipients of the Gramling Award in Marine Biology!

The Department of Biological Science at FSU has awarded the Jack Winn Gramling Award in Marine Biology to 4th year students Josh Manning and Ethan Cissell this year to support their work. The Gramling is awarded based on faculty nomination. We're proud to have two awardees this year!

Josh is extremely excited and grateful to receive the Gramling Award to help fund his research in summer 2021. He looks forward to traveling to Bonaire, where he will track parrotfishes and establish field experiments to test the hypothesis that behaviorally-mediated patterns in individual parrotfish space-use drive spatial heterogeneity in benthic coral reef communities.

Ethan will be using the award to help fund his upcoming project experimentally testing fo rate influence of density-mediated indirect effects form multiple trophic interactions operating at different spatial scales on Cyanobacteria mat community trajectory. He is excited to get started on this project with generous funding from the Gramling Award to increase the amount of sequencing he is able to perform and better test his hypotheses.