Best Internship Paper

2009	Scott Bacon, Kauai Community College
2008	Sam Apuna and Alisa David, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2007	Emma Anders, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Marine Journalism in Hawai'i: Seawords Internship.
2006	Katharine Moore, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Jellyfish Culturing.
2005	Katie Kamelamela, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Monitoring streams of Hawai`i: A Water Quality Internship.
2004	Ophelia Ongalibang, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Internship with The Marine Mammal Research Program.
2003	Maki Kurihara, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Whale and Dolphin Watching Tour Guide: Being a Naturalist of the Ocean. Lauren Ku'ulei Vickery, Windward Community College Conservation of Hawksbill Turtles.
2002	Aniko Willoughby, Maui Community College Responding to Stranded Sea Turtles on Maui.
2001	Melissa L. Cleland, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hyperbaric Medicine: Not Just for SCUBA Divers. Tim D. Rodden, Maui Community College Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program.
2000	Andrea Shluker, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Seabird Monitoring at Term Island Field Station.
1999	Patricia C. Herrera, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Training Internship on the Threatened Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas.
1998	Joseph Sosky, University of Hawai'i at Hilo The Marine Habitats of Hawai'i: A Resource and Activity Book for Teachers.
1997	Jill Sommer, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Internship and Investigation into the Nursing Frequency and Growth Patterns of the Bottlenose Dolphin.
1996	Rachel Shackelford, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Analysis of Photographic Profiles: Size and Abundance of Marine Snow in the Vacinity of Hydrothermal Plumes on the Endeavour Segment of the Juan De Fuca Ridge.
**	No awards were presented from 1992 - 1995.
1991	Marcie Walters, Windward Community College Summer Program for the Enhancement of Basic Education of Oceanography: Overview, Evaluation, and Personal Assesssment.
1990	Paul Aniya, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Design and Construction of a Concrete Canoe.
1989	Lani Teshima-Miller, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Video Documentation of the 1988 MOP QUEST (Quantitative Underwater Ecological Surveying Techniques) Workshop.
1988	Raymond Boland, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Blue-Water Marine Laboratory: An Experiential Marine Education Program.
1987	Edmund Suzuki, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Tropical Aquaculture Research Program (TARP): A Work/Study Experience.
1986	Lark Celikiz-Myers, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hanauma: A Crater Invaded by the Sea.
1985	Carol Yonamine, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A View of the Blue-Water Marine Laboratory.
1984	Irene Kaho'okele, Kala Lindsey, Christine Spence, Windward Community College Ka Moemoea Kai (Ocean Fantasy).

Best Research Paper

2009	Trisann Bambico, University of Hawai'i at Hilo
2008	Nate Olsen, University of Hawai'i at Hilo
2007	Caitlin Kryss, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Impacts of Coastal Development on Water Quality of Brackish Ponds in Ka'u, Hawai'i.
2006	Lea Hollingsworth, Windward Community College and University of Hawai'i at Manoa Experimental Infection of Fungia scutaria Larvae with Motile Zooxanthellae Under Different Spectral Treatments: Preliminary Test of the Beacon Hypothesis.
2005	Jennifer Vander Veur, University of Hawai'i at Hilo The effects of Rhizophora mangel on reef fish populations of Kapoho, Hawai`i.
2004	Kosta Stamoulis, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Temporal Variation in Juvenile Reef Fish Populations at the Wai Opae Tidepools in Kapoho, Hawai'i. Can This Area be Considered a Nursery?
2003	Meredith F. Acly, University of Hawai'i at Hilo The Effects of Introduced Fish Species on the Endemic Shrimp of Anchialine Pond.
2002	Cynthia Oppenheimer, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Shell Preferences in the Hermit Crab Clibanarius zebra. Darla White, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Ciquatera on the Island of Hawai'i: Windward vs. Leeward Shores.
2001	Brooke Stuercke, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Algal Turf Composition at Two Sites on the Island of Hawai'i. Decy Devere, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Developmental Comparisons and Morphological Differentiation of the Radular Structure and Function of Columbellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda).
2000	Thomas Shopay, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Thermohaline Circulation Dynamics in Hilo Bay.
1999	Linda Preskitt, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Coral Health at Puako, Hawai'i.
1998	Jill M. Sommer, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Neonate Development of the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).
1997	Windy Gibson, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Role of Mantle Pipillae in Pigment Deposition in the Tiger Cowry, Cypraea tigris.
1996	Kristi West, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Impacts of Anchor Damage on the Coral and Mobile Invertebrate Community at Puako, Hawai'i.
**	No awards were presented from 1992 - 1995.
1991	Kelly Okano, University of Hawai'i at Hilo A Comparative Study of Volcanic Sand.
1990	Terrence Thomas, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Circulation and Stratification of Hilo Bay.
1989	Sherri Miller, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Sewage pollution: 24 hour Monitoring Study. Ligaya Stice, Windward Community College Nucleotide Divergence Detected by Direct Sequencing of an Enzymatically Amplified DNA.
1988	Lee Ann Anderson, Windward Community College Assessment of Changes in Fish Populations at Molokini Islet, 1987
1987	James Fujisaki, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Retention and Recruitment of Fishes into the Reef Population Around Johnston Atoll.
1986	Robin Minton, Windward Community College Research Techniques in the Culture of Larval and Juvenile Mahi-Mahi, Coryphaena hippurus.
1985	Hitoshi Ariga, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Dietary Arrays of Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) Caught in the Ika-Shibi Fishery off Hilo, Hawai'i.

The John P. Craven Award

2009	Cole Santos, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2008	Damion Sailors, Windward Community College
2007	Sarah Vasconcellos, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A Comparison of Observational Surf Forecasts on O'ahu's North Shore. Tiani Kajiwara, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Analysis of Fish Use in Hawai'i.
2006	Alyson Napua Barrows, Maui Community College Waihe'e Limu Restoration.
2005	Shawn Fujimoto, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Gambierdiscus toxicus: Toxic tails. Noelle Rucinski, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park Hawksbill Monitoring Project.
2004	Kauaoa Fraiola, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A Community Based Adaptive Management Program for Managing Mangrove Crab "Scylla serrata" Populations: Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia.
2003	Frederick L. Farrell, Windward Community College A Coral Reef Mapping and Assessment of a Section of Kaneohe Bay Using Advanced Technological Methods.
2002	Pono Warner, Windward Community College Noid fin Design.
2001	Brian D. Greene, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of the U.S. Associated Central Pacific Islands, with Discussion of Biodiversity.
2000	Karin Evensen, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A History of Norwegian Whaling and Cetacean Surveys in Hawaiian Waters.
1999	Noelani Puniwai, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Movement of Zooxanthallae in Response to Change in Direction of Irradiance.
1998	Joylynn Oliveira, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Native Hawaiian Uses of Fish in Hawaii.
1997	C. Jain Vaughn, University of Hawai'i at Hilo A Photograph Herbarium of Indigenous Seaweeds of the Big Island of Hawaii.
**	No awards were presented from 1992 - 1995.
1991	Betsy Reynolds, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hanauma Bay Baseline User's Survey.
1990	Kyle Teshima-Miller, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Making of a Video Documentary on the Wreck of the Mahi.
1989	Steve Holly, Maui Community College Line Islands IV Educational Video Documentary.
1988	Jon Hodge, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Fish Identification Videotape: The Damselfish.
1987	William Ebersole, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Submarine Lava Flows and Pillow Lava Formation During Kilaueas's 48th Phase.

The PACON International, Hawai'i Chapter, MOP Symposium Award

2009	Halley Moseley, University of Hawai'i at Hilo
2008	Jeffery Milisen, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2007	Andrew Fredell, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Trophic Ecology of Three Species of Marlin Commercially Marketed in Hawai'i.
2006	Jennifer Hester, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Baseline Studies of Coral-Algae Symbioses Around the Island of Hawai'i.
2005	Jim Gunderson, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Continuing Hawai`i's Russian Adventure: The Search for "Knudsen's Cannons." Kyle Vanderlugt, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Intensive Cultivation of Calanoid Copepods and Support for Public Education.
2004	Stephen Barnes, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Affecting the Thermocline and Oxygen Minimum Layers.
2003	Torsten Heinen, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Using High Resolution Lidar Data For Shoreline Extraction.
2002	Anne Ghiulamila, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Nutritional Composition of Two Edible Red Hawaiian Macroalgae: Concinna and Gracilaria Salicomia.
2001	Jeffery P. Taylor, University of Hawai'i at Hilo The Effect of Volcanic Fog on SeaWiFS Satellite Imagery in the Lee of Hawai'i.

Best Poster

2009	Rheneca Bean and James Moriarty, University of Hawai'i at Hilo
2008	Nicolas Seferovic, Cory Hungate, Darren Roberts, and Gillian Wysock, University of Hawai'i at Hilo
2007	Cristi Braun, Windward Community College Identification of Marine Algae Species Found at Palmyra Atoll for Development of a Algae Genus List.
2006	Ross Martin, University of Hawai'i at Hilo Community Structure of Marine Phytoplankton in Hilo Bay, Hawai'i.
2005	Doreen Remillard, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A Sea Education Association (SEA) Semester.
2004	Lea Hollingsworth, Windward Community College & University of Hawai'i at Manoa Early Onset and Expression of Green Fluorescent Proteins in the Larvae of the Mushroom Coral: "Fungia scutaria."

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