first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing: Column Width: Background: Open AccessEditorial Announcing the 2018 JMSE Travel Awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Students by Anthony S. Clare School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2018, 6(2), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6020057 Received: 18 May 2018 / Revised: 18 May 2018 / Accepted: 18 May 2018 / Published: 22 May 2018 Download Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Download Epub Browse Figure Versions Notes This is the first year that the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE) has offered travel awards and we were overwhelmed by the number and standard of the applications. Therefore, it was a very difficult task to finalise the top postgraduate and postdoctoral candidates. I am indebted to the Editors and Editorial Board members, who helped with this process.As the Editor-in-Chief of JMSE, I am pleased to announce the winners:The postgraduate student award was granted to Ms. Laura Weber, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate supervised by Dr. Amy Apprill in the MIT/WHOI joint programme. The postdoctoral award was granted to Dr. Frederic M Evers, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (Figure 1).Ms. Laura Weber’s dissertation focused on characterising the microbial landscape of coral reef environments at different scales. Laura has co-authored five peer-reviewed publications, including an article in Nature Communications. The JMSE award will be used to attend the Gordon Research Seminar—Marine Microbial Strategies for Survival in a Changing Environment—where Laura will present on the topic: “Genomic Investigations into Coral-Picoplankton Interactions within the Coral Ecosphere”.Dr. Frederic Evers received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 2017 from ETH Zurich, where he worked in the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) supervised by Prof. Dr. Robert Boes. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich investigating tsunami waves. Dr Boes has co-authored ten peer-reviewed journal articles and was the first author on a paper published in JMSE, which was entitled “Impulse Wave Generation: Comparison of Free Granular with Mesh-Packed Slides”. Dr Evers will use his award to attend the 36th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE) 2018, where he will present the first insights from an interdisciplinary project on tsunamis triggered by submarine landslides.On behalf of the Section Editors, Managing Editor and Editorial Board members, it is my pleasure to congratulate Ms. Laura Weber and Dr. Frederic Evers on winning the 2018 JMSE Travel Awards. We are very grateful to MDPI for sponsoring these travel awards and to all who submitted applications. The high standard of applications bodes well for the future of marine science and engineering. We wish you all continued success in your careers. Figure 1. (a) Ms. Laura Weber; (b) Dr. Frederic M Evers. Figure 1. (a) Ms. Laura Weber; (b) Dr. Frederic M Evers. © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Clare, A.S. Announcing the 2018 JMSE Travel Awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Students. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2018, 6, 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6020057 AMA Style Clare AS. Announcing the 2018 JMSE Travel Awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Students. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2018; 6(2):57. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6020057 Chicago/Turabian Style Clare, Anthony S. 2018. "Announcing the 2018 JMSE Travel Awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Students" Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 6, no. 2: 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6020057 Find Other Styles Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics For more information on the journal statistics, click here. Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.