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Claire Garfield named 2026 Pomeroy Memorial Award recipient

^{Claire Garfield is the second-ever recipient of the Pomeroy Memorial Award. (Photo submitted by Garfield.)}

Claire Garfield, a doctoral student in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia’s (UGA) Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Lawrence and Janet Pomeroy Memorial Award. She will use the award to support travel to the 2027 NOMAD DOM Summer School in Montreal.

The Pomeroy Fund provides support to UGA graduate students to attend conferences, participate in summer programs, or conduct research in marine ecology, a field advanced by Lawrence Pomeroy, an influential ecologist and UGA Alumni Foundation Professor Emeritus of Ecology, who made seminal contributions to the discipline.

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