| Best Student Poster Awards Each day of the conference the best student poster was selected 
                  by the poster session chairs to receive an award.
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                | Conference 
                  Day | Student's Name | Institution | Poster Title | 
               
                | Day 
                  1 | Seung-Hyun Son | University of New 
                  Hampshire | Decadal and inter-annual 
                  variations in the Yellow and East China Seas revealed by Satellite 
                  Ocean Color Data (1979 – 2002) | 
               
                | Day 
                  2 | Cecelia C. Sheridan | University of Hawaii | A synthesis of Hawaii 
                  Ocean Time-series (HOT) mesozooplankton data from 1994-2002: 
                  temporal variability and contribution to elemental budgets | 
               
                | Day 
                  3 | Astrid Schnetzer | University of Southern 
                  California | The impact of diel 
                  vertical migration on surface export of particulate organic 
                  matter and cycling of energy in the mesopelagic zone | 
			   
                | All 
                  Conference | Best 
                  Student Poster on Topics Related to Physical Oceanography | 
               
                | Marie-Helene Radenac | IRD/Legos | Nitrate distribution in the equatorial Pacific during the 1997 El Niño:
biological processes vs. vertical and horizontal physical processes | 
               
                | All 
                  Conference | Best 
                  Student Poster on Topics Related to Microbial Ecology | 
               
                | Matthew Church | Virginia Institute 
                  of Marine Science | Light-enhanced 
                  bacterial production at Station ALOHA in the oligotrophic North 
                  Pacific Ocean |