April 29, 1997 Contact: Robert Irion (408) 459-2495; irion@ua.ucsc.edu

MYERS TRUST GRANTS $22,450 TO UCSC STUDENTS FOR MARINE RESEARCH

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--The Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust of Pebble Beach has granted $22,450 to 22 graduate students who conduct marine-related research at UC Santa Cruz.

The trust was established by the estates of Earl H. Myers, an internationally known oceanographic biologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station who died in 1975, and his wife and research assistant Ethel M. Myers, who died in 1985. Dividends and interest on the trust's principal finance the full amount of the grants each year.

This year, the 11th year of the program, 37 students in the Monterey Bay Area received a total of $36,200 for their marine studies. The other recipients conduct research at Hopkins Marine Station or California State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Awards ranging from $500 to $1,500 went to the following UCSC graduate students: Stian Alesandrini, Todd Baumgartner, Susanne Fork, Neil Harrington, Bradford Keitt, Eric Mielbrecht, Dawn Noren, Colleen Reichmuth, Stephanie Smathers, and Brandon Southall, all master's students in ocean sciences; Cristin Amico, Karen Crow, Matthew Edwards, Sean Hayes, Steve Lonhart, and Michelle Wainstein, doctoral students in biology; Robert Burton, Kelly MacGregor, Laura Moore, and Deirdre Scholar, doctoral students in earth sciences; and Jason Gedamke and Jill Pettinger, incoming master's students in ocean sciences.

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