CESSRST Fellows and Staff Attend 2025 EPP/MSI Forum at Princess Anne, Maryland
CESSRST Fellows and staff attended the 11th Biennial Education and Science Forum, which was hosted by the NOAA Cooperative Science Center in Living Marine Resources at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. The event, which was held from March 4 – 6, 2025 in Princess Anne, Maryland, was an opportunity for the Cooperative Science Centers to showcase collaborative research and education between faculty and students at EPP-funded Cooperative Science Centers and NOAA scientists.
The theme was Educate, Innovate, Sustain: Enhancing America’s Global Competitiveness by Preparing a Future Workforce for Ocean, Coastal, and Atmospheric Challenges. The Forum brought together students, researchers, and staff from the four Centers that NOAA funds and NOAA staff
The forum provides a venue to present research findings, discuss new engagement opportunities, and to promote career opportunities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates with academic, government, and private sectors. CESSRST students presented their work through oral and poster presentations during the event’s Technical and Poster Sessions.
several CESSRST Fellows won prestigious awards.
Environmental Intelligence and Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies
- Timothy Medina – 1st Place, Graduate Oral Presentation
- E’lysha Guerrero – 3rd Place, Graduate Oral Presentation
- Alessandra Zuniga – 1st Place, Graduate Poster Presentation in Environmental Intelligence
- Carlos Ordaz – 1st Place, Graduate Poster Presentation in Environmental Intelligence
- Jose Keppis – 3rd Place, Undergraduate Poster Presentation in Environmental Intelligence
- Enrique Valencia – 2nd Place, Graduate Poster Presentation in Resilience Coastal Communities and Economies
- Biajani Gonzalez – 1st Place, Graduate Poster Presentation in Healthy Oceans
Weather Ready Nation
- Sebastian Makrides – 1st Place, Graduate Oral Presentation
- Richard Rivera – 1st Place, Graduate Oral Presentation
- Isabel Lopez – 1st Place, Graduate Poster Presentation
- Lasbati Djiwa – 2nd Place, Graduate Poster Presentation
- Kolawole Owoeye – 2nd Place, Graduate Poster Presentation
