Zeke Spooner Receives the 2024 Salisbury Award

The Coastal and Marine Science Institute is pleased to announce the 2024 recipient of the Dennis Salisbury & Patricia K. Salisbury Graduate Award: Zeke Spooner, a PhD student advised by Dr. Sascha Nicklisch and Dr. Christina Pasparakis. Zeke will address microplastic pollution through research to determine the extent to which microplastics have invaded benthic ecosystems across California (CA) and to quantify the toxic chemicals that microplastics carry with them into benthic organisms. Zeke will also be working on multiple-stressors toxicology involving the algal biotoxin domoic acid and developing aquatic organisms in an effort to incorporate important environmental contexts into harmful algal bloom toxicology.

The Dennis Salisbury & Patricia K. Salisbury Graduate Student Award offers support for a graduate student at the Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned their undergraduate degree at UC Davis. The 2024 award amount of $3000 can be spent in whatever way best supports the recipient's graduate study.