Brian Maurer, a graduate student from San Jose State University and Pacific Grove High alumnus received this year's California State University’s top award for graduate student research in Biological and Agricultural Sciences.
This year’s competition was held May 10th and 11th at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Maurer, who conducts his research at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories’ Biological Oceanography Lab, was one of three graduate students from San Jose State University at the statewide event.
The twenty-seventh annual CSU competition gave awards in 10 categories for student excellence in scholarly research and creative activity. Maurer presented his research on the optimization of bulk FDA, a water quality analysis technique developed for ballast water testing by his advisor, Dr. Nick Welschmeyer. Maurer has improved the method, which is critical for both scientific and public sectors, as it provides a way to determine if living organisms are present in water samples.
Maurer received a cash prize of $500 for his First Place award.
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories is the graduate program in marine science for California State Universities East Bay, Fresno, Monterey Bay, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose and Stanislaus. To learn more information about MLML and Brian Maurer, click here.
Submitted by Brynn Hooton-Kaufman
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