The Marine Institute's annual Poster Presentation Day was held on Friday, 28th July 2023, where student bursars showcased their summer internship research. For the first time, the 20 students not only presented posters but also gave flash presentations to supervisors, fellow bursars, and Marine Institute staff. The bursary programme, which has been active since the 1960s, offers students a unique opportunity to professionally contribute to the marine science industry before completing their tertiary education.
This year bursars worked in areas including fish husbandry, fish trap census research, ecological monitoring, data collation and organisation, marine research, INFOMAR data visualisation, DNA extraction and analysis, historical fisheries data reconstruction, climate research and outreach, finance, communications, and linking art and science.
Eight students’ efforts were spotlighted as exceptional. These students and their project areas were:
- Rosemary Lane – Crayfish Plague Monitoring
- Craig Ferguson – INFOMAR Seabed Mapping
- Saoirse Cusack – Finance
- Michael Officer – Marine Research Infrastructure
- Colleen Kyan – Social Media and Communications
- Brice Dourieu – Shellfish Research
- Laura Foster – Infragravity Wave Modelling and Communications in Climate Services
- Dan O Connell – Linking Art and Science
“It’s really wonderful to see the talent and innovation that our bursars display each year,” says Patricia Orme, Director of Corporate Services, on the topic of the Summer Bursary Poster Presentation Day. “An event like today gives us the opportunity to acknowledge all the hard work that the students have been doing for the past number of weeks. The posters were of exceptional quality, and their work added significant value to their teams and will result in lasting impacts within the Marine Institute. They should all be very proud of their efforts as the quality of work and output this year was excellent.”
