Best Student Award Winners
At the National Conference in Monterey, ASEV recognized enology and viticulture students for their oral, poster, and flash talk presentations. Congratulations to the following award winners:
ORAL PRESENTATION
Viticulture: Eric Gale for Grapevine Root Cold Hardiness (Major Professor: Michelle Moyer, Washington State University, Prosser)
Enology: Courtney Tanabe for Method Optimization for Total Arsenic Analysis in Wines using HG-MP-AES (Major Professor: Sue E. Ebeler, University California, Davis)
POSTER PRESENTATION
Viticulture: Timothy Weber for Effect of Various Levels of Biochar and Compost on Growth of Valvin Muscat Grapevines in a Controlled Environment (Major Professor: Arianna Bozzolo, University of Missouri, Columbia)
Enology: Zachary Cartwright for Analysis of Brettanomyces bruxellensis Penetration Depths in Different Types of Oak Barrel Stave (Major Professor: Charles Edwards, Washington University, Prosser)
FLASH TALK
Viticulture: Joseph Schmidt for The Impacts of Cluster Thinning and Cluster-zone Leaf Removal on the Hormone Dynamics of Ripening Pinot noir Berries (Major Professor: Laurent Deluc, Oregon State University, Corvallis)
Enology: Sydney Morgan for Sulfur Dioxide Addition Alters Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Populations and Wine Sensory Characteristics in Spontaneous Fermentations (Major Professor: Daniel Durall, University of British Columbia, Canada)