Awards
Student Awards
Graduate Student Awards Available
- Outstanding Graduate Student Oral Presentation
- Honorable Mention Graduate Student Oral Presentation
Undergraduate Student Awards Available
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student Oral Presentation
- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Student Oral Presentation
Graduate Student Awards Available
- Outstanding Graduate Student Speed Talk Presentation
- Honorable Mention Graduate Student Speed Talk Presentation
Undergraduate Student Awards Available
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student Speed Talk Presentation
- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Student Speed Talk Presentation
Graduate Student Awards Available
- Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Presentation
- Honorable Mention Graduate Student Poster Presentation
Undergraduate Student Awards Available
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation
- Honorable Mention Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation
Awards given depending on submission but available to both graduate & undergraduate students each as outstanding and honorable mention. Evaluating research projects in terms of creative ability, scientific procedures, communication, thoroughness, and competence. It emphasizes the importance of originality, well-defined goals, clear communication, completeness of data, and overall skill in design and analysis. Key questions include whether the work presents novel questions, uses new approaches, show collaboration and teamwork, and demonstrates good knowledge of the literature.
Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Awards
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.
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.
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.
In 2017, the HCA established an award to recognize early pioneers in modern conservation in Hawaiʻi. Typically, these are people who laid the groundwork to establish conservation programs, create environmental education and advocacy efforts, and mentor conservation practitioners and leaders. Our current senior conservation leadership often mentions these early individuals as the reason for their commitment to conservation in Hawaiʻi, and they, and the programs that exist today, are in large part the legacy of these early workers. The current generation of conservation practitioners and students often have never heard of these figures, so this is an opportunity to recognize the important role they played in conservation in Hawaiʻi. This is a posthumous award.
Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Awards are determined by nomination and seconded, with majority consensus by the Alliance partnership. An online ballot process is used to collect one vote per organization for each award category.
2025 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference Sponsors
