Ten NRI graduate students and one faculty member presented papers and posters at the Oceans Management National Research Network conference in Ottawa in October. PhD students Prateep Nayak, Huong Ta, Apurba Deb and Sherrie Blakney, Masters student Erik Kocho-Schellenberg, and Fikret Berkes (2) gave papers. Prateep and Huong also gave posters, along with PhD students Carlos Idrobo, Micaela Trimble and Luiz Chimello, and Masters students Melanie Zurba and Kate Turner. Of the grand total of five student awards given out at the Conference, the NRI students captured three. They were Kate Turner, Melanie Zurba and Huong Ta.

Congratulations to the latest NRI graduates who had their degrees conferred on October 21st:

Barbara Bleho, Rathan Bonam, Jeffrey Clark, Sandra Duran, Jennifer Lusk, Roxann Nayar, Tyler Tarnoczi, Krystle White, Lance Robinson

Congratulations to Crissy Ranellucci, Masters Student, for winning the best student poster at the Parks and Protected Areas Forum of Manitoba Conference, held in Winnipeg on September 24th and 25th.

The NRI would like to congratulate Professor Elinor Ostrom for her Nobel Prize win! Dr. Ostrom, Indiana University, has been a senior colleague and an inspiration to those of us at the NRI working on commons issues. She was one of the referees for the CRC in Community-based Resource Management, and a participant at the Second Conference of the International Society for the Study of Commons, hosted by the NRI some years ago.

In awarding Dr. Ostrom the 2009 Prize in Economic Sciences, the Nobel Committee noted: "She observes that resource users frequently develop sophisticated mechanisms for decision-making and rule enforcement to handle conflicts of interest, and she characterizes the rules that promote successful outcomes." Dr. Ostrom's Nobel prize helps highlight the importance of commons and community-based resource management in solving issues of sustainability.

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