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Melissa Cronin wins student presentation award at NACCB 2022

Fellow(s): Melissa Cronin
Topic(s): Coastal & Marine Conservation, Conservation Science

Melissa Cronin won the 2022 North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) best full length student presentation award for her talk Estimating Shark and Ray Catch in Tuna Fisheries to Inform Assessment and Conservation. The 6th annual NACCB was held in Reno, Nevada and online July 16-21, 2022. Congratulations, Melissa!

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Melissa Cronin

Melissa Cronin

2019 Fellow
Melissa Cronin is a Smith Conservation Research Fellow and postdoctoral researcher hosted by the Coasts and Commons Co-Laboratory at Duke University. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist and studies the impacts of industrial fishing on ecosystems, threatened species, and human communities. She is co-founder of the conservation organization Mobula Conservation (www.mobulaconservation.org) and co-founder and CEO of FieldFutures (www.fieldfutures.org).