2016 Ocean Awareness Contest Theme:
Making Meaning out of Ocean Pollution
Students were invited to research, explore, interpret, and communicate through art, poetry, prose, or film the connections between human activities–including plastic consumption and drilling for oil–and the health of our oceans, with a focus on humans as problem-makers and solvers.
Death’s Parade
Elizabeth Chung
Between Sound and Silence
Melba Nuzen

Plastics in the Ocean: A Cautionary Tale
Lauren Krikorian
On Stranger Tides: Ocean Acidification’s Impact on the California Coast
Crystal Chan, Michelle Fung
Pollution and the Jubilee City: One Girl’s Search for Meaning
India LaPalme

Currents of Strength
Abigail Batinga
Song of the Sea
Opefoluwa Sarah Adegbite
The Tainted Tide
Udayan Saha

Mermaid’s Tears
Tammy Feng

Strangled Seas
Maxwell Sagermann

The Sad Never Before, The Happy Ever After
Jennifer Tsogtsaikhan
Blue Mouth
Arianne Amparo-Partida
Change
Richa Gupta

Death By Oil
Mrinmoyee Mishra

Plastic Pollution (Cut It)
Adrian Serrano, Damoni Cato-Cain

Black Shadow
Antonella Masini