"The Blue Planet" Award for thesis in marine biology

In March 2017, has been carried out the final vote of the applications for participation at the "the Blue Planet" Award for Bachelor's thesis in Marine Biology, sponsored by the Italian Society of Marine Biology and presented in the 47th SIBM Congress at Turin (Italy) in June 2016. Laura Basconi of the University of Salento was proclaimed the winner,  presented the following thesis project developed under the MERCES project "Restoration of the Cystoseira forests in the Mediterranean Sea".