Biography:
Ms. Marnelle is a young science research assistant of the Sea cucumber Research and Development Center of the Mindanao State University at Naawan, Naawan, Philippines. She is also a graduating student of Master of Science in Marine Biology of the same university. She focuses on sea cucumber research primarily on the fisheries and some commercially exploited holothurians, the Holothuria scabra and Actinopyga echinites. She is supervised by Dr. Wilfredo H. Uy, a professor and researcher who specialized on seagrass ecology and the program leader of the sea cucumber research.
Title : Composition and distribution of top commercially exploited sea cucumbers in selected areas of Mindanao, Philippines with notes on their market value and conservation status