Awards

Distinguished Service Award

Pauline Sato

Executive Director, Mālama Learning Center

Since 1997 the Hawai’i Conservation Alliance has recognized persons reaching the highest esteem within the conservation community. These persons are nominated by their peers. The award honors exceptional service, personal effort and unselfish interest, embodying long-term dedication and tenacity in environmental conservation for the Hawaiian Islands.

Conservation Innovation Award

Hui Kū Maoli Ola

Native Hawaiian Plant Nursery

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Starting in July 2006, the HCA has granted the Conservation Innovation Awards for new technologies or techniques used in conservation activities in the islands. This recognition is given to the instigators or champions of a procedure that leads to significant advances to the structure or nature of environmental conservation in Hawai‘i. Examples of such procedures may be the creating of legislation that changes the dynamics of natural resource management, or programs that lead to significant better protection of the Hawaii’s native ecosystems.

Outstanding Leadership Award

Dr. Arthur Medeiros

Research Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey

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Since 2007, this award is given to a person who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in advancing environmental conservation in Hawai‘i over the short to medium term (several years to a decade). Examples of such leadership may be seen in creating avenues for rapid advancement in conservation through influencing natural resource management or programs that lead to significant better protection of Hawai‘i’s native ecosystems.

Best Student Oral Presentation Award

Jonatha Giddens

Experimental Removal of the Introduced Grouper, Roi (Cephalopholis argus) in Puakō, Hawai‘i: Methods for Assessing and Managing Marine Invasive Species

Runner-Up Student Oral Presentation Award

Eva Schemmel

Integrating Local Monitoring and Ecological Knowledge with a Novel Scientific Tool to Refine Traditional Community-Based Fishing Moon Calendars

Best Student Poster Award

Alex Wang

The Presence of an Ecological Trap in the Juvenile Dispersal of the ʻĀkohekohe (Palmeria dolei), a Population-Limiting Life Stage?

Runner-Up Student Poster Award

Miles Thomas & Patrick Mizumoto

Establishment of a Vegetation Monitoring Project in Wailupe Valley Forest Exclosure