The Department of Fisheries is pleased to announce that Mr. Rajitha Sankalpa Dissanayake, an accomplished alumnus, has been selected for the Masters by Research program at the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research will focus on deep-sea megabenthic organisms in the fjord ecosystem of Bay D’Espoir.
Mr. Dissanayake previously completed a Masters in Marine Biology at the Marine Mammals Bioacoustic Lab, Institute of Deepsea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China in 2021, where he was awarded the prestigious Belt and Road Master’s Fellowship.
He has also published an article from his first Master’s research, which can be accessed here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1749-4877.12540
The Department congratulates Mr. Rajitha Sankalpa Dissanayake on this remarkable achievement and wishes him continued success in his research and academic career.