Description
The Alaska Entomology provides awards for one science fair project at each of Alaska’s three regional science fairs: the Alaska Science & Engineering Fair, the Interior Alaska Science Fair, and the Southeast Alaska Regional Science Fair.
Award Recipients
2020
Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – Lola Whitman, “If spruce beetles are native to Alaska, why the sudden increase?”
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Sienna Fagan, “Beautiful butterflies.”
2019
Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – North Priest, “Plants versus bugs, who survives and grows.”
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Megumi Robinson, “What is a pillbug?” and Isabel Brown, “A study of macroinvertebrates.”
2018
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Fionn Pietsch, “Insect growth.”
2017
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Molly Merritt, “Life cycle of a butterfly,” and Ben Brown, “Study of seasonal variation and diversity of zooplankton.”
2016
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Troy Moore, “The amazing wasp nest.”
2015
Southeast Alaska Regional Science Fair – Ian Scholl, “How small-scale mining affects percentage of macroinvertebrates (Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Plecoptera).”
Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – Landen Hooper, “Worms.”
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Ben Brown, “What is Bugging Alaska;” and Therese Yew, “Insect Wings.”
2014
Southeast Alaska Regional Science Fair – Katherine Kane and Helen Thurston, “How water quality affects the mortality rate of Stoneflies (Plecoptera).”
Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – Jeffrey Moore, “Forest Management and Soil Insects.”
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Shinji Kawauchi, “Alaska’s Tough Butterfly.”
2013
Southeast Alaska Regional Science Fair – Gabriel Cohen, “How Sediment Slug Size Porosity Affects Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities.”
Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – Crystal McNeilly, “A Survey of Biodiversity of Aegialites beetles in Sitka Sound.”
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Aspen and Riley French, “House Cricket Habitat Selection.”
2012
Interior Alaska Science Fair – Halbe Brown, “More of What Lies Beneath? Part Seven.”