ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Trent Sutton, Donna Parish, and James Jackson for initiating the changes to the selection process for the AFS/Sea Grant Best Student Presentation and Poster awards. Previous drafts of this article were improved with comments from Mike Quist and Craig Paukert. We appreciate the symposium organizers who served on the Best Student Presentation/Poster committee and all of the judges who have volunteered since 2007. Finally, we thank the AFS annual meeting program committees and their chairs as well as AFS staff who have aided in the success of the awards symposia from 2007 through 2012.