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Congratulations to Mr. Travis Esau and Waqas Jameel for Best CSBE/SCGAB Graduate Thesis Award 2016

Mr. Travis Esau, a PhD student and Waqas Jameel an MSc student have been awarded with the Best CSBE/SCGAB Graduate Thesis Award and received certificates and $200 cash from CSBE.

Mr. Esau’s PhD thesis entitled “Smart sprayer for spot-application of agrochemical in wild blueberry fields”. Mr. Waqas Master thesis entitled “Effect of crop characteristics and machine parameters on berry losses during wild blueberry harvesting”.

Graduate students from the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus made oral and poster presentations in different technical sessions at the meeting. Graduate and undergraduate students also participated in volunteer activities to organize different events during the CSBE annual meeting and technical conference. More than 150 delegates from different countries participated in the conference.