The InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme continues to play an important role in the careers of early career ocean scientists. There was a high number of proposals submitted again this year and the seven InterRidge Fellows are:
Cathy Cole - a PhD student at NOC Southampton, UK
Emanuele Fontana - a postdoctoral researcher from University of Milan, Italy
Alessio Sanfilippo - a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pavia, Italy
Jessica Till - a postdoctoral researcher studying at IMPMC, Paris, France
InterRidge/ISA Endowment Fund Fellowships were awarded to:
Hanchao Jian - a PhD student at Peking University, Beijing, China
Sanitha Sivadas - a postdoctoral researcher at NIO, India
Andrew Thaler - a PhD student at Duke University, USA, who will train Freddie Alei, from Papua New Guinea
All Fellows are profiled at: http://www.interridge.org/2012awards