Best oral presentation award 2015 VLIZ Young Marine Scientists’ Day VIVES, Brugge (20 February 2015) Kindly find below the alphabetical list of the oral ‘pitching’ presentations, tick your top three and turn in the form when leaving the plenary session room at 14:15. De Clercq Maikel Buried beneath the sea - mapping the prehistoric landscapes of the Belgian Continental Shelf de Jong Maarten F. The future of sand extraction in the Dutch part of the North Sea De Rijcke Maarten The combined temperature and nutrient load effects do not explain the development of harmful algal blooms De Tender Caroline Metagenomics@Sea: a floating house in a marine environment De Witte Bavo Why not eat wild mussels? Fettweis Michael Seasonality in concentration, size and settling velocity of muddy marine snow in the southern North Sea and their effects on the sea bed Geerts Lindsay Oxygen deficiencies in the Schelde and Elbe Estuary: same difficulties, different causes Komjani Homayoon One wavy day at the beach Mertens Kenneth Neil Marine dinoflagellate cysts as tools in palaeoecology Schoutens Ken Response of morphology and tissue properties of tidal marsh plants to wave activity Scoma Alberto Long-chain hydrocarbon degraders from deep-sea Soetaert Maarten Electrifying a Benthos Release Panel to retain sole. Sotillo Alejandro The costs of synanthropy: a long term study on the human-dependent population of Lesser Blackbacked gulls in Belgium Stark Jeroen Do marshes attenuate storm surges? Observations of peak water levels along channelized marsh transects Stienen Eric W.M. Long-term studies make sense: 50 years of beached bird surveys suggest a strong decrease in oil pollution in Belgian marine waters Sys Kim VALDUVIS, a new way of assessing and communicating the sustainability of fishing activities Sys Klaas Competitive interactions between pulse and beam trawlers in the North Sea Tello Ruiz Manases Towards a ship manoeuvring model in shallow water waves Tonné Nathalie Revealing the internal anatomical development of mangrove seedlings using Computed Tomography and microtomy Van Cauwenberghe Lisbeth Unraveling the sources of marine microplastics: your daily contribution? van de Velde Sebastiaan Electrical cooperation by cable bacteria has large impact on coastal sediments van der Ven Rosa Genetic structure and variable connectivity in the stony coral Acropora tenuis in Kenya and Tanzania Vanhellemont Quinten Sediment dynamics in the Belgian coastal zone observed from space Vekeman Bram Exploring the diversity of methane-oxidizing bacteria in marine ecosystems Verhelst Pieterjan Estuarine behaviour of European silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the Scheldt Estuary: a slippery path