The last few hours of the ECS in Malta was filled with drama: reports, announcements, letters of concern, awards, departures and elections. I have already told you about the Conservation award.
Here's a flavour of the rest.
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| Andrew Wright reports for the Council on website and publications |
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| The Full ECS Council: Mark, Andrew, Inger, Thierry, Tilen, Paddy, Joann, Connor and Roland. |
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| Inger reports on student meeting |
Simmonds reports back on the discussions made by the ECS National Contact points. The 'NCPs requested their own webpages in their own languages and suggested that the ECS should send an urgent letter to address dolphin watching concerns in the Red Sea.here
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Here is Tilen thanking Andrew with a hug for his hard work on council. |
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| Andrew Wright and Tilen Genov |
Prize winners in full: Amanda Bishop - student talk
Vanessa Trijoulet - short talk
Abbo van Neer - poster
Ceri Morris - Baleine Libre Prize for Video
Texas Sim - poster
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| prize from Paddy and Heidi Frisch |
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| Another award winner Ceri Morris |
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Michel Andre reports from the Scientific Advisory Committee -
stressing the important of keeping to time.
(Simmonds does not seem to be listening) |
Hustings for the ECS council membership:
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| Joan Gonzalo of Tethys - he was elected to council |
Fiona Reid of WDC and the Univeristy of Aberdeen was also elected to the council.
Hustings for the Presidency of the ECS: In a good-natured competition Chris Parsons of George Mason University went head to head with Mario Acquarone of the Arctic University of Norway.
Both made excellent speeches.
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| Mario at the hustings for president |
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| Chris Parsons at the hustings |
The vote was close and Mario won the elections and Chris a bottle of wine which he was obviously delighted about (see below).
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| Presidential candidates hug after the result is announced. |
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Thierry Jauniaux gives his final speach as president
Thanks to Becky and Anja for photographs. |
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