Submissions from 2024
A Manager's Dilemma: Defending Salt Marshes Against Rising Seas, Mary Bryan Barksdale
Chesapeake Bay Life Cycles, Alexandria Marquardt
Deeper and Deeper: An Introduction to Seafloor Geology, Amy Nicholson
Do Invasive Hogs Alter Species Relationships in Salt Marshes?, Hallie Fischman
Fish Detectives: Identifying and Classifying Fishes Using a Dichotomous Key, Kaitlyn Cisz
Food Webs - Here, There, and Everywhere!, Elle Gellerson
Phytoplankton Biogeography: Where is My Home?, Lilly T. Blume
Plants, Animals, and Others, Oh My!, Amy Nicholson
Reef Restoration Reconnaissance, Emory Wellman
Sea Turtle Patrol, Anna Poslednik
Survival Challenge: Can Marine Animals Adapt to Climate Change?, Kyra Fitz
Trash Talk: How to Tackle Plastic Pollution, Mara Walters
We're All Connected, Amanda C. Salmoiraghi
Submissions from 2023
Bye Bye, Bycatch, Derek Jackson
Cereal Killer: Diagnosing Oyster Diseases Using PCR, Anna Poslednik
Going Fishing In The Classroom!, Will Shoup
Hematodinium: A Blue Crab Parasite, Xuqing Chen
How Can Communities Be Engaged in Climate Change?, Yao Wang and Qiong Wang
Mapping a Terrapin Town, Anna Caputo
The Case of the Missing Penguins!, Claudia Moncada
The Mystery of the Oyster: What's in the Bag?, Julia Grenn
Watching Seagrass Breathe, Alyson Hall
Where Land Meets the Sea, Kayla Cahoon
Who's That Phytoplankton?, Savannah Mapes
Submissions from 2022
Find the Bullseye: Targeting Conservation in the Candy Darter, Jemelyn Grace P. Baldisimo
From the Subsurface to the Sky: Tracking Groundwater with Drones, Stephanie Wilson
Gelatinous Zooplankton in Biological Systems; Case Study: Salpa thompsoni in the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Maya Thomas
How Resilient Is It? The Resilience Quotient Zoning Ordinance, Qiong Wang and Yao Wang
Killer from the Deep!, Tor Mowatt-Larssen
Searching for Sea Scallops: The Role of Science in Fisheries Management, Kaitlyn Clark
Selectively Breeding Hard Clams, Leslie Speight Youtsey
Shark Sanctuaries: Habitat and Climate Change, Kaitlyn O'Brien
Shifting Sands: Coastal Dunes in Motion, Elizabeth Davis
The Seagrass is Greener on the Other Side, Lauren Alvaro
Submissions from 2021
Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing: The Search for Antibiotics, Amanpreet Kohli
Case of the Stressed-out Larva: A Study of Climate Change Effects on Oyster Cellular Physiology, Annie Schatz
Dial C for Collaboration: Finding Unknowns with Your Fellow Scientists, Brianna Stanley
Etiology in Action: Identifying Aquaculture Disease Threats through Data Analysis, Malina Loeher
Fish Census: Monitoring Finfish Populations in Chesapeake Bay, Rachel Dixon
Growing Up Is Hard: Vertical Accretion in Salt Marshes, Alex Smith
High to Low: Exploring Estuarine Gradients, Cristin Wright
Marsh Migration Mania!, Emily Goetz
Migrating to Motherhood: The Story of Female Blue Crabs in Their Ecosystem, Alex Schnieder
Sunny-Side-Up: Temperature & Lobster Egg Development, Abigail Sisti
Watercolors: Relating Properties of Light to Organic Matter and Ecosystem Production, Derek Detweiler
Submissions from 2020
Dichotomous Keys: An Essential Tool for Fish Detectives, Jackson Martinez
DNA Detectives: Protecting Endangered Species, Samantha Askin
Feeding Time: How Nutrients Drive Phytoplankton Growth, Brianna Stanley
Isotopes in the Estuary: Conception and Application of Stable and Radioactive Carbon, Derek Detweiler
Old MacDonald Had an Aquaculture Farm, Shantelle Landry
The Code in the Water: An Investigation into Harmful and Non-harmful Algal Blooms, Samantha Fortin
Tiny Killers, Sarah Pease
Trees of the Seas, Michelle Woods
Wave Fever: The Climate Induced Range Expansion of the Atlantic Marsh Fiddler Crab, Kayla Martinez-Soto
What's In the Muck? Benthic Sediment Characterization and Community Structure, Cristin Wright
Zoop Soup (and Poop!), Kristen Sharpe
Submissions from 2019
Expedition Sediments: Mud's Journey through the Watershed. Subjects: Earth Science / Environmental Science Grades: 9-12, Jessie Turner
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Whose Fish? Subjects: Life Science, Environmental Science, Marine / Ocean Science, Shelby White
Prismatic Little Plankton. Subjects: Life Sciences, Physical Science/Chemistry; Marine/Ocean Science - Grades: 9-12, Kristen Sharpe
Sequence CSI: The Nitrogen Cycle. Subjects: Life Science, Environmental Science, Marine/Ocean Science - Grades: 9-12, Stephanie Wilson
Trawling through the Five Gyres: A Microplastic Research Study. Subjects: Life Science, Earth Science, Marine/Ocean Science - Grade 6, Meredith Seeley
Submissions from 2017
Can’t Catch My Breath! A Study of Metabolism in Fish. Subjects: Environmental Science, Marine/Ocean Science, Life Science/Biology Grades: 6-8, Gail Schweiterman
Counting Blue Crabs in the Bay! Subjects: Life Science / Biology, Environmental Science, Marine / Ocean Science Grade Level: 6-8, Bruce W. Pfirrmann
Digesting Data - Subjects: Life Science / Biology Grade Level: 6-8, Amanda Bromilow
Earthquakes, Glaciers, and Sediments, Oh My! Subjects: Earth Science, Environmental Science, Life Science/Biology Grades: 9-12, Elisabeth Clyne
Keeping Up with Sea-Level Rise: Salt Marsh Accretion. Subjects: Earth Science, Marine / Ocean Science Grades: 9-12, Bethany L. Williams
Marine Parasites and Fish: How to Sample and Analyze. Subjects: Life Science / Biology, Environmental Science, Marine / Ocean Science Grades: 6-8, Zoemma Warshafsky
Plastic as a Habitat for Bacteria and Human Pathogens. Subjects: Life Science / Biology Grades: 6-8, Amanda Laverty
Seagrass Survivor. Subjects: Life Science / Biology, Environmental Science, Marine / Ocean Science Grades: 6-8, Amanda Bromilow
Sea Turtle CSI: A Graphing Activity, Subjects: Life Science / Biology Environmental Science Marine / Ocean Science, Bianca Santos
Sexual Dimorphism in Shrimp. Subjects: Life Science / Biology Grades: 9-12, Soloman Chak
The Mystery of Ocean Acidification, Patricia Thibodeau
The Watershed Game: Land Use & Water Quality. Subjects: Environmental Science, Marine/Ocean Science, Life Science/Biology Grades: 9-12, Shanna Williamson
