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Spring 2025 | Natural Science & Restoration

Heat Islands and Ecological Restoration: Exploring Potential Linkages

Alex Brunke

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability

Circularity Counts: Addressing the Waste Issue Through Community-Centered Institutions

Aidan Cox

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Policy & Regulation

Local Nonprofits Have Our Backs– Who Has Theirs?

Anna Crow

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Preserving Institutional Knowledge in Student-Run Environmental Research Organizations

Layla Airola

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Spring 2025 | Agriculture and Food Systems

Fueling Future Farmers: The Future is Regenerative

CJ Applegate

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

Exploring How We Can Combine Online Communities and Information Resources To Tackle the Issue of Behavior Change Concerning Sustainability

Molly Barham

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Spring 2025 | Best Lightning Talk, Policy & Regulation

Blue State, Purple Policy: Lessons for Bipartisan Environmental Policy in the Puget Sound

Benjamin Blatt

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

Building a Sustainable Future: Optimizing Digital Content for Environmental Education

Julia Bullock

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Redlining Today: Greenspace Inequity, the Detrimental Effects of It and How the City of Seattle Confronts It

Kristina Gerard Canonizado

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

LEED-ing Green Futures: Understanding the Challenges of Widespread LEED Certification

Sean Carey

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

The Language of Justice: Participation, Knowledge, and Power in Environmental Policy

Shannon Cosgrove

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Eco-Engagement: Discovering Effective Social Media Strategies for Environmental NGOs

Chelsea DeGrande

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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice

The Hidden Health Risk Next Door: Tackling Urban Noise with Resonator-Enhanced Barriers

Sarah Doolittle

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

Art as a Bridge: Connecting Relationship to Nature through Environmental Restoration & Immigration Stories

Emma Freeman

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Spring 2025 | Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Underwater Real Estate: Analyzing Policy Frameworks for Effective Eelgrass Restoration on the U.S. West Coast

Jordan Genuario

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Roots of Awareness, Branches of Action: Environmental Knowledge-Action Gaps In Preschool-Aged Students

Ruby Gumaelius

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Trash Talk: Zines, Waste Systems, and Environmental Justice in Seattle

Yifan Han

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Behind the Seams: Understanding Youth Attitudes Toward Sustainable Clothing and Textile Waste

Sammy Harrison

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Lightning Talk, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Clean Air Action: How Community-Driven Solutions Can Tackle Environmental Injustice in Policy Implementation

Megan Hassi

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Tools for Curiosity: Hands on Sustainability and the Fight Against Perceived Obsolescence

Chancellor Hoppenrath

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Spring 2025 | Natural Science & Restoration

Ship Happens: Research Vessel Exhaust Impact on Ocean Acidification Research

Deja Jackson

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Before We Engineer The Ocean: Reimagining Community Engagement in Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Chloe Jazvic

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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Salmon, Forests, and Fire: Barriers to Collaboration, Integration of Holistic Practice

Roy Jen

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

Lengthening Linen Longevity: How the Barriers to Hotel Textile Recycling can be Overcome

Alex Johnson

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability

Continued Corporate Sustainability Growth Under Current Political Conditions

Quinn Johnson

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Natural Science & Restoration

Why Ecoforestry?

Jacob Jones

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

Strengthening Material Reuse in King County: Barriers, Solutions, and Circular Potential

Olivia Knutson

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Spring 2025 | Best Poster, Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Oral History, TEK, and Trust: Multiple Ways of Knowing in the Climate Crisis

Hope Kuchan

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Communicating Science: Navigating Controversial Topics with Reason

Sebastian Kuhn

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Green Minds: Environmental Education as a Catalyst for Eco-Conscious Values

Mayah Levy

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Science Communication in a New Information Age: Utilizing Social Media as an Environmental Education Tool

Ben Loke

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

The Problem with Stuff: Barriers and Solutions to a Free Store

Sadie McGee

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

An Environmental Communicators Guide to Combating Climate Misinformation

Keagan McMurray

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Spring 2025 | Natural Science & Restoration

Strategic Recovery: Incorporating Regional Dynamics Into Abalone Conservation

Olivia Michales

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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Creating Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development: How Seattle Can Grow its Light Rail Network Sustainably

Callum Mitchell

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

From Plastic to Pixels: Empowering Circular Action Through Website Design

Sydney Morris

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

Conservation in Plain Sight: Using Educational Displays to Connect NOAA and Communities

Bridget Murphy

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Poster, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Protecting the Puget Sound: How Green Stormwater Infrastructure Can Save our Waters

Dylon Ongwiseth

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

3 Barriers to Entering the Environmental Workforce and how to Remove them

Kina Painter

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Raising the Curtain to Husbandry in Aquariums

Kendra Pearson

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