Great work Dave and Justin and Melissa !! FYI those are competitive awards won against thousands of fisheries scientists from all over the US and other countries.

The Nashville Program Committee for AFS'09 is pleased to announce that on April 1st we formally accepted abstracts for 840 oral papers, 132 posters, and 15 speed presentations for the conference. The acceptance letters were emailed to presenting authors in 20 countries. Talks and posters have been arranged into 16 different Contributed Paper sessions and 32 Symposia. Attendees will be able to choose among talks in fifteen concurrent sessions on each of the four days of the technical program (31 August - 3 September 2009).