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FWRI biologist mentors local Hutton Scholar

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July 8, 2008

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Carli Segelson (727) 896-8626

FWRI BIOLOGIST MENTORS LOCAL HUTTON SCHOLAR

Gibbs High School student and 2008 American Fisheries Society (AFS) Hutton Fisheries Biology Program Scholar Vaughn Crozier is currently interning at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI).

AFS honored the incoming high school junior as one of 36 outstanding fisheries science students worldwide. Crozier will also receive a $3,000 scholarship and the opportunity to intern with FWRI researcher Kathy Guindon.

Crozier will participate in all aspects of field and laboratory work for a project evaluating the stress effects of angling on tarpon. He also will assist with the statewide tarpon genetics recapture program.

The Hutton Program strives to stimulate interest in careers in fisheries science and management among groups underrepresented in fisheries professions, including minorities and women. In the program's seventh year, AFS received 118 student applications from the United States and Mexico. Of the exceptional students chosen for the Hutton this summer, nearly two-thirds are minorities, and more than one-quarter are non-minority females.

Financial support for the 2008 Hutton Program is being provided by NOAA Fisheries, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and other federal and state organizations. The program also receives support from the Education Section of AFS and several other AFS subunits, including the North Central Division, Northeastern Division, Western Division, Alaska Chapter, California-Nevada Chapter, North Carolina Chapter, Montana Chapter and Wisconsin Chapter, as well as many AFS individual members.

Other Hutton Program partners include the National Association of Biology Teachers, the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.