The SSAR’s George & Mary Rabb Undergraduate Poster Award is sponsored by the George and Mary Rabb Foundation. It honors Mary Rabb who achieved much in the realm of amphibian research and conservation of all species, and George Rabb, who was a former Director of the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and a highly respected leader of many global wildlife conservation initiatives. The award recipients received a check for $250 and a book. We thank Chuck Crumly for book donations this year. To learn more about this award, visit: https://ssarherps.org/ssar-awards/georgerabbaward/.
This year’s judges were Anne Sabol (Memphis Zoo), Samuel Robinson (Texas State University), Michael F. Benard (Case Western Reserve University), Christopher Distel (Schreiner University), Michael Yuan (Texas Christian University), Leroy P. Núñez (Stony Brook University), Rayna C. Bell (California Academy of Sciences), & Aaron Griffing (Princeton University).
Congratulations to this year’s award recipients:
Behavior, Conservation & General Herpetology: Kylie A Dowd (Moravian University), “Munchies and Microplastics: The Effects of Microplastic Exposure on Tadpole Feeding Behavior”
Ecology: Abigail Clark (University of Central Florida), “Determining the Impact of Anthropogenic Habitat Alteration on the Effectiveness of Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Burrows for Commensal Species”
Evolution & Genetics: Katelyn Arrizon (California Polytechnic State University), De Novo Genome Assembly of Sceloporus arenicolus, an endemic and endangered Lizard”
Development, Reproduction & Physiology: Nicholas Canfield (University of Dayton), “Tadpole Teeth: Development of Keratodonts in Anuran Larvae”
From left to right: Tony Gamble (Committee Chair), Kylie A Dowd, Abigail Clark, Nicholas Canfield