• Mali'o Kodis, Nathan Olson, Waiakea High School, Hilo, HI
  An Analysis of the Prokaryotic Community Associated with the Mucus of Montipora patula
• Runner-up, Orville Baldos, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
  The Response of Fimbristylis cymosa R. Br. to Three Methods of Hydroplanting

• Luc Leblanc
  Assessment of Non-Target Insect Attraction to Fruit Fly (Tephritidae) Male Lures on Hawai‘i and Maui Islands 
• William Haines, Runner-up
  Rethinking Extinctions: Conservation Status of Hawaiian Leafroller Moths in the Genus Omiodes (Crambidae)

• Meris Bantilan-Smith
  A Quantitative Investigation and Inventory of the Soils and Vegetation of Coastal Lowland Hawaiian Wetlands
• Frances Kinslow, Runner-up
  Fungal Colonization of Leaf Litter from Native and Invasive Riparian Trees in Forested and Developed River Reaches on the Island of Hawai‘i

• Alison Ainsworth
  Effects of Repeated Fires on Native Plant Community Succession at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
• Peter Oboyski, Runner-up
  Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Group of Small Endemic Moths: Hawaiian Cydia

• Roland Frayne
  Palila (Loxioides bailleui): A Comparative Ecological Foraging Efficiency Study
• Wendy McDowell, Runner-up
  The Endangered Kaua‘i Cave Amphipod Returns to Restored Habitat

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