Kevin Chase, our University of Canterbury PhD student, won the “Best student talk (presentation) on understanding invasive species” award at the New Zealand Ecological Society conference held at Massey University in mid-November.
Kevin’s talk was titled “Allee Effects and the Establishment of Exotic Invasive Bark Beetles”. He is supervised by Ecki Brockerhoff (Scion/B3), Dave Kelly (School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury), and Sandy Liebhold (US Forest Service). Kevin receives a scholarship from Scion via contributions to the Better Border Biosecurity (B3) collaboration.