Student Award Winners

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Student Presentations submitted to the 2021 and 2022 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference are considered for our Student Awards Program*. Awards are given out based on scoring by volunteer judges attending Conference. Students are scored according to creative ability, scientific procedures, thoroughness, competence, and communication. Prizes are awarded for the top two student presentations in the below categories. Mahalo nui loa to The Wildlife Society Hawaiʻi Chapter for supporting our Student Award Program and providing cash prizes to our Student Award Winners!

Award Winners will be announced and posted on Wednesday August 10th, 2022 at 12:30 PM HST.
*Only those who indicated on their Call for Abstract submission form that they would like to participate in the Student Award Program will be considered.*

 

2021 Student Award Winners

Graduate Student Presentations

Outstanding Graduate Student Oral Presentation

    • Name: Julia Douglas
    • Presentation Title: #198: Optimizing Reintroduction Success for Rare Endemic Plants; A Case Study of Polyscias bisattenuata on Kaua‘i
    • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

Honorable Mention Graduate Student Oral Presentation

  • Name: Amanda Navine
  • Presentation Title: #57: Investigating the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Susceptibility to Avian Malaria in Hawaiian Honeycreepers
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

Outstanding Graduate Student Speed Talk Presentation

  • Name: Dimuthu Jayakody
  • Presentation Title: #72: An Approach to Assessing Place Attachment Towards Improving Place-Based Biological Conservation and Environmental Planning Efforts
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

Honorable Mention Graduate Student Speed Talk Presentation

  • Name: Amy Olsen
  • Presentation Title: #87: Fish Assemblage Structure Before and After a Marine Heatwave in West Hawai’i
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

 

Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Presentation

  • Name: Becca Lensing
  • Presentation Title: #33: Exploring Microbial Indicators of Coastal Ecosystem Health Across a Gradient of Human Development in Tutuila, American Samoa
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

Honorable Mention Graduate Student Poster Presentation

  • Name: Kalaʻi Ellis
  • Presentation Title: #24: Quantifying Impacts of Terrigenous Sediment on Coral Reef Health and Morphology Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

 

Undergraduate Student Presentations

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Oral Presentation

  • Name: Kayla Mukai
  • Presentation Title: #152: Developing an Informative Hawaiian Land Snail Identification Mobile App
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Speed Talk Presentation

  • Name: Sophia Egger
  • Presentation Title: #154: Elevational Distributions of Tardigrades on Mt. Kaʻala
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation

  • Name: Joseph Williams-Solomon
  • Presentation Title: #123: Shifting the Balance in Lowland Mesic Forests
  • Cash Prize & a Brown Bag Session hosted by the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance & Foundation

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