Dyrssen Award 2021

The Swedish Society for Marine Sciences are very happy to announce that the Dyrssen Award 2021 for best Master's Theses within Marine Sciences go to:

Kinlan Jan (1st prize) for the thesis Copepod feeding preferences along the Baltic Sea environmental gradients – an assessment of zooplankton interactions using DNA metabarcoding

Simon Henriksson (2nd prize) for the thesis Mixed origin of juvenile cod on the Swedish west coast – a population genetic study

Kimberly Arfwedson (honorary mention) for the thesis Representativity of Marine Protected Areas along the Swedish West Coast – evaluating the effectiveness of the existing network and identifying expansion opportunities in the Skagerrak