2002
Whitney Weston
Community College, Roseburg, Oregon
Project: Captive breeding: conflict between maintaining genetic variation and loss of
behavioural fitness
(Supervisor, Michael Banks and Ian Fleming Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station,
OSU)

Whitney project involved learning molecular genetic techniques and using these tools to help address questions within a research project to examine fitness consequences of captive breeding programmes; particularly those designed to maintain genetic variability in captive animals. This work should result in publication in a primary journal.