Wisconsin Sea Grant staff have been recognized for their accomplishments. The program’s publications and websites have also received notice. Sea Grant has also awarded recognition of its own to valued advocates and partners.
2024 Robert and Carroll Heideman Award for Excellence in Public Service and Outreach from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to David Hart
2024 Webby Award honoree from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Public Trust podcast series about PFAS
2024 Appreciation Award from the Wisconsin Commercial Fishing Association to Sharon Moen
2023 WAVE Award from Madison Media Professionals for the What Accelerates Harmful Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes video
2023 WAVE Judges Choice Award from Madison Media Professionals for the Testing Maple Sap, Fish and Wild Rice for PFAS video
2023 Wisconsin Library Association President’s Volunteer Award to Anne Moser
2023 National Sea Grant Communicators Network Communications Service Award to Sharon Moen
2023 Signal Award bronze for The Water We Swim In podcast series
2023 Signal Award listeners choice The Water We Swim In podcast series
2022 WAVE Merit Award from Madison Media Professionals for the Nano- and Microplastics in the Great Lakes video
2022 WAVE Merit Award from Madison Media Professionals for the Clean, Drain and Dry Your Boat This Summer video
2022 Wisconsin Association for Environmental Educators Nonformal Educator of the Year Award for Anne Moser
2022 National Educational Telecommunications Association Educational Resources for the Classroom Award for “The Legend of the Lost Emerald” educational video game
2022 Lake Michigan Stakeholders’ Lake Michigan Champion of Conservation Award for Julia Noordyk
2022 Apex Excellence Award for the Aquatic Sciences Chronicle 2021 Issue 3
2022 International Serious Play Awards Program gold medal for “The Legend of the Lost Emerald” educational video game
2022 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “Coastal Love” photo contest, honorable mention
2022 Association of Natural Resources Extension Professionals Gold Award for the podcast series Introduced
2021 Council for Advancement and Support of Education Gold Award for the podcast series Introduced
2021 Council for Advancement and Support of Education Bronze Award for the 2018-20 Wisconsin Sea Grant Biennial Report
2021 University and College Designers Association Excellence Award for Past, Present and Future Ciscoes: Wisconsin Sea Grant Research video
2021 University and College Designers Association Honorable Mention for the 2018-20 Wisconsin Sea Grant Biennial Report
2021 University and College Designers Association Honorable Mention for the Trash Trunk Marine Debris educational toolkit
2021 Apex Grand Award for the Trash Trunk Marine Debris educational toolkit
2021 Apex Excellence Award for Past, Present and Future Ciscoes: Wisconsin Sea Grant Research video
2021 Outstanding Regional Collaboration Achievement Award from the Association of Natural Resources Extension Professionals for the North Central Region Algal Bloom Action Team Regional Research Symposium
2021 WAVE Merit Award from Madison Media Professionals for the Geo Rutherford: Voices of the Coast video
2021 Raymond L. Lindeman Award, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography to Ryan Lepak
2021 Wisconsin Sea Grant Friend of Sea Grant Award to Senator Tammy Baldwin
2021 Wisconsin Sea Grant Friend of Sea Grant Award to Congressman Mike Gallagher
2021 Wisconsin Sea Grant Actionable Science Award to Hallet J. “Bud” and Vicky Harris
2021 Wisconsin Sea Grant Great Lakes Champion Award to Dean Haen, director of the Brown County Port and Resource Recovery Department
2020 Council for Advancement and Support of Education Silver Award for Voices of the Coast: Mary Lou Schneider video
2020 Sea Grant Association Research to Application Award Honorable Mention for Research in Partnership With Nation’s Largest On-Land Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Operation, Located in America’s Dairyland, Benefitting the Nation
2020 AVA Digital Gold Award for Rivers2Lake podcast, Wisconsin Water News
2020 AVA Honorable Mention Award for Dangerous Current Workshop podcast, Wisconsin Water News
2019 WAVE Judge’s Choice Award for Voices of the Coast: George Schmidt video
2019 WAVE Editing Award for Voices of the Coast: George Schmidt video
2019 WAVE Merit Award for Videography for Great Lakes Fisheries and Family Businesses: Titus Seilheimer video
2019 AVA Digital Platinum Award for College Course Uses Lake Superior Watershed podcast
2019 AVA Digital Gold Award for Central Sands Nitrogen podcast
2019 AVA Digital Honorable Mention Award for Milwaukee River Race Proceeds Swimmingly podcast, Wisconsin Water News
2018 Council for Advancement and Support of Education Circle of Excellence Award in Public Relations and Community Relations for Tackling Barriers for Green Infrastructure: An Audit of Local Codes and Ordinances
2017 Outstanding Achievement Award presented to Jim Hurley from the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve
2017 AVA Digital Platinum Award for Undercurrents: The Hidden Knowledge of Groundwater podcast
2017 AVA Digital Honorable Mention Award for Sea Grant: Science Serving America’s Coasts video
2016 Invader Crusader Award from the Wisconsin Council on Invasive Species presented to Tim Campbell
2015 Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, Outstanding Programming Award for the St. Louis River Estuary Stories and Science project
2015 Council for Advancement and Support of Education Circle of Excellence Award for the 2012-14 Sea Grant Biennial Report
2015 APEX Grand Award for the Eat Wisconsin Fish communications campaign
2015 University of Wisconsin Regents Academic Staff Excellence Award presented to Gene Clark
2014 Research to Application Award from the national Sea Grant Association recognizing work to understand and mitigate damage from accelerated freshwater corrosion of structures within the port of Duluth-Superior
2014 Sea Grant Association President’s Award presented to Jim Hurley
2013 Excellence in Public Health Research Award from the Wisconsin Public Health Association presented to Fred Binkowski
2012 Sea Grant Association Distinguished Service Award presented to Former Director Anders W. Andren
2012 Water Quality and Habitat Restoration Outreach Specialist Vicky Harris won the International Association for Great Lakes Research John R. (Jack) Vallentyne Award
2012 Water Quality and Habitat Restoration Specialist Outreach Specialist Vicky Harris won the Earth Caretaker Award from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2012 National Indie Excellence Books Award for “People of the Sturgeon, Wisconsin’s Love Affair With An Ancient Fish,” for the audio book edition
2012 APEX Award for John Karl and his video, “What Will Round Gobies do to Great Lakes Streams?”
2011 APEX Award for John Karl and his video, “Testing Well Water for Microorganisms”
2011 Dairyland Surf Classic Annual Award for rip current awareness work
2010, “People of the Sturgeon, Wisconsin’s Love Affair With an Ancient Fish” won 11 state, regional and national awards
2010 Water Quality and Habitat Restoration Outreach Specialist Vicky Harris won the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Nature Conservancy
Gold 2010 PubWest Book Design Award for “People of the Sturgeon, Wisconsin’s Love Affair With An Ancient Fish”
2009 Distinguished Service Award, American Water Resources Association, Wisconsin Chapter
2009 ECO Award of Excellence in Environmental Writing
2009 Mid-Career Award to Outreach Specialist Vicky Harris from the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Program
2006 Assembly of Sea Grant Extension Program Leaders Chairman’s Award
2005 The Best Web-Based Outreach Effort 2005” “Wisconsin’s Great Lakes Shipwrecks” has been voted by the Sea Grant network as one of our top sites
2004 Pick of the Week Award” for the Zebra Mussel Watch Web site presented by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment
2004 Safe For Kids Award for the Frogs website presented by: Kids.Net.Au. Purpose of Award: Selected to be part of a search engine for kids, children, educators and teachers searching sites designed for kids that are child safe and clean
2004 Multitype Library of the Year Award presented by Wisconsin South Central Library System for Wisconsin’s Water Library website
2004 Superior Program Award for the Shipwrecks project Diving into History presented by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network
2000 Silver Award from the national University and College Designers Association: Wisconsin Sea Grant Underwater Exploration website
Yahoo!’s Yahooligans” HyperSite of the Week for January 8, 2000: Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON 10 website
1999 Award of Excellence from the national University and College Designers Association: Wisconsin Sea Grant Frogs website
1998 Award of Excellence from the national University and College Designers Association: Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON 9 website
1998 Gold Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education: Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON 9 website
1997 Gold Award from the national University and College Designers Association: Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON 8 website
1997 Gold Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education: Madison JASON ’97 website
The Great Lakes Information Network named the entire Sea Grant website as the “GLIN Site of the Month” for August 1997 and in September 2000 featured the redesigned site
1996 Gold Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education: Madison JASON ’96 website
Madison JASON ’97 was awarded a 1997 Addy Award by the Madison Advertising Federation in the Interactive Online category
Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON 9 website is featured on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “NOAA International Year of the Ocean – Kids’ and Teachers’ Corner”
Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON 9 website was featured on the “JASON Project” home page (December 15, 1997), one of only three selected by JASON Project organizers as a featured site
In September 1996, Discovery Communications, Inc., parent company of the Discovery Channel cable television network, selected the Critter Quiz of the Wisconsin Sea Grant Madison JASON ’96 website for inclusion on the CD-ROM, “Animal Planet”
On March 4, 1996, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, selected Madison JASON ’96 as one of the “Top Five Sites of the Day”, an honor that ranks this site with such corporate sites as Pepsi, Microsoft and the Walt Disney Company
The Sea Grant homepage and national Sea Grant Network pages both were named “Magellen 4-Star Sites”–the highest rating an Internet site can achieve in Magellen, The McKinley Group’s comprehensive online directory of more than 1.5 million reviewed and rated websites