Saeland

July 2009 - Congratulations to Melissa Saeland

Melissa Saeland has completed her undergraduate degree course in Computing and Oceanography at the University of Wales (Bangor). She gained first class honours and and the J. H. Gee award for outstanding achievement in computer related mathematics.  The J.H.Gee Prize was awarded for her research project based on the Virtual Ecology Workbench. During the summer vacations of 2007 and 2008 Melissa used the VEW at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as an intern (supervisor Dr Mike Lomas) funded by the UK Trustees of BIOS. Her project was to create a model plankton community with the principal species monitored in the BATS programme, and using that model to simulate the Bermuda plankton ecosystem. Melissa has been awarded an EPSERC studentship tenable at Southampton University Institute for Complexity in association with the National Oceanography Centre, which is located on the waterfront campus at Southampton University.