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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">The WOS Student/Young Investigator Award is intended to honor and encourage young scientists to present their work at the International Oyster Symposium. The WOS seeks to recognize young scientists of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in aquaculture research and education.</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #000000;">All winning contributors will be honored at the closing ceremony on October 23, 2015. World Oyster Society President, Dr. Katsuyoshi Mori, will present the awards.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #1a1a1a;">Student/Young Investigator papers and posters will be evaluated on presentation, innovativeness of the study or project, and contribution to the oyster - in industry including culture, harvest, and technology, or in education. Three awards will be given.</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Rules & Eligibility:</b></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">The applicant must be:</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 42px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">1. A WOS member.</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 42px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;">2. Currently 35 years old or younger.</span></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 42px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">3. An author or co-author of an abstract for oral or poster presentation during the upcoming IOS6. Poster sessions are still being accepted.</div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">Deadline for application is September 20, 2015. Those who are eligible for this award, please send an email with the details (Name, Organization, Birth Date, Title for Presentation) to both the WOS Secretariat, <a shape="rect" href="mailto:office@worldoyster.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0433ff;">office@worldoyster.org</span></a> and <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:kahren@oystersymposium.org" target="_blank">kahren@oystersymposium.org</a>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;" align="left"><br /> <img height="224" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.24" border="0" hspace="5" width="224" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/5aca8bed401/cc741493-96a2-41f9-aad2-4e0efe9584f5.png" align="left"> <span style="line-height: 1.6;">WHEN ASKED WHY DID YOU ENTHUSIASTICALLY ACCEPT the invitation to give a keynote address at IOS6, Barton responded, </span></img></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 36px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;" align="left"><i>"The international oyster industry has great potential to act with unified voice to help bring about the restoration of our relationship with our oceans. IOS6 is an important event in creating momentum and bringing together all of those whose voices are needed in this conversation. Oysters transcend sustainability and are great teachers if we are willing to come together, learn, and put into action the lessons they offer." </i></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana;">You won't want to miss Barton's talk. As Director </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana; color: #1c1c1c;">of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana;">, he will invite the audience to consider key strategies and novel approaches to ensure the growth and sustainability of the industry for feeding world populations and preserving our seas. As a visionary thinker, he will help us see what is possible and inspire oyster scientists, producers, entrepreneurs, and consumers to come together and champion oysters and their vital place in addressing the challenges we face in changing environmental conditions.</span></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #272727;">It is Barton's belief that the choices we are making for dinner directly impact the ocean and its fragile ecosystems. And he says, there is no better choice than oysters considering their multiple benefits and the services they provide.</div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">If you would like your oyster to be one of the highlighted brands please pass along a brief description of your oyster's qualities, and your growing techniques. Your oysters will get paired with a chef and be served in a cooked</div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">Chefs will select from the list of oyster farms participating to create their signature dish and raw shucked product will be offered for comparison side by side.</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING AS A CHEF OR OFFERING A RAW BAR, do not delay. Call Bob at East Coast Shellfish Growers Association, +1 401-783-3360.</div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">This show was created in collaboration with the Falmouth Art Guild and will precede the Oyster Grand Tasting Dinner. An area within the Trade/Exhibition Hall has been set-aside for artists to display their interpretation and celebration of oysters and the sea. All art will be for sale with a portion of the proceeds benefiting future oyster education events during Cape Cod Oyster Week.</div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #272727;">Dr. Watanabe believes, "...mutual trust among people can be deepened, sustained and developed when endeavors are founded on the principle of life's inherent dignity and worth, paving the way for creative expressions of culture. This belief is reflected in Watanabe Oyster Laboratory's corporate vision. It is what drives us as a healthcare enterprise to create a culture in the service of public health in an effort to better society. </div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #272727;">The path to bettering humankind, I believe, lies in facilitating the mutual inspiration and integration of Western knowledge and Eastern wisdom, and through this process, bring about a loftier, more humane culture." </div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #272727;">Dr. Watanable has presented papers on essential trace metals and cerebral function, antioxidant capabilities of a novel antioxidant found in oyster meat essence, and the effect of Watanabe oysters on bone re-absorption action for menopausal women, and as a fertility treatment.</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #191646;">He holds a Ph.D. in Animal Husbandry, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, a Ph.D. in Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and is an Academic Advisor, Peking University Hospital (China).</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #272727;">Most Recently, in July 2015 Dr. Watanabe gave a presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Sleep Research, receiving a Best Presentation Award as one of the best 6 of the 346 presentations made. He is a founding member of the World Oyster Society.</div>
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