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Student Awards Each year at the conference, the HCA awards prizes to the top student oral and poster presenters. Monetary awards were sponsored by the Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance and The Wildlife Society-Hawai‘i Chapter. Backpacks were donated by Patagonia for the 1st prize winners.   1st Prize, Best Student Oral Presentation From Molecules to Management: Conservation Genetics For The Non Geneticist Using Laysan Albatross as a Model Lindsay Young, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI   Runner-up, Best Student Oral Presentation Endemism and Dispersal: Comparative Phylogeography of Three Surgeonfishes Across the Hawaiian Archipelago Jeff Eble, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, HI   1st Prize, Best Student Poster Award An Analysis of the Prokaryotic Community Associated with the Mucus of Montipora patula Mali‘o Kodis, Nathan Olson, Waiakea High School, Hilo, HI   Runner-up, Best Student Poster Award The Response of Fimbristylis cymosa R. Br. to Three Methods of Hydroplanting Orville Baldos, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI   Conservation Innovation Award   The Conservation Innovation Award is presented to the instigators or champions of a procedure that leads to significant advances to the structure or nature of environmental conservation in Hawai‘i. In 2008, the HCA Partners honored the greater land acquisition community.   In the past five years, a remarkable revolution has occurred in Hawai‘i with increased acquisition of conservation land. At the beginning of 2002, Hawai‘i had very little dedicated public funding for acquisition of conservation land. The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Lands had been active in Hawai‘i for many years, but local land trusts were in their infancy stages.   Since those early months of 2002, however, several Federal government agencies, the State of Hawai‘i, all the counties, and several private land trusts have gone from the back of the pack in private land conservation to become recognized as national leaders.   This quantum leap in conservation was achieved not because of the efforts of just one organization, but rather by a massive shift in perception and participation by Hawai‘i’s citizens, political leaders, and agencies.   The HCA wishes to honor this achievement and the creative new partnerships, ideas, and tools across our community that continue to develop during this era of innovation.   Dale Bonar presents Conservation Innovation Award   List of Awardees Governor Linda Lingle County of Maui - Office of the Mayor City & County of Honolulu - Clean Water Natural Lands Commission County of Hawai‘i County of Kaua‘i Hawai‘i State Legislature The Office of Hawaiian Affairs U.S. Army Environmental Command - Army Compatible Use Buffer Zone Program The Legacy Land Conservation Commission Department of Land and Natural Resources - Legacy Land Conservation Program U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Recovery Lands Acquisition Program Department of Land and Natural Resources - Recovery Lands Acquisition Program USDA Forerst Service - Forest Legacy Program Department of Land and Natural Resources - Forest Legacy Program National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Coastal Estuarine Land Conservation Program Coastal Zone Management Program, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism - Coastal Estuarine Land Conservation Program The Nature Conservancy Trust for Public Land-Hawai‘i The Maui Coastal Land Trust Hawai‘i Island Land Trust Kaua‘i Public Land Trust Moloka‘i Land Trust The North Shore Community Land Trust