The student exhibition is  a dedicated time when conference participants can interact with student researchers and artists as they display and explain their marine-related research or art. This remains an opportunity for students to showcase their work and gain professional experience.

Annual Student Exhibition

State of the Coast invites contributions from advanced undergraduates (juniors or seniors), recent graduates and graduate students from Oregon colleges and universities to showcase their research or their art. We welcome submissions from any discipline related to issues and opportunities facing the marine environment: biology, anthropology, law, engineering, policy, chemistry, business, ecology, environmental science, management, and more!

The Call for Student Researcher Submissions is now Closed

We will begin accepting submissions for the 2024 conference in September 2024.

Goals of student engagement at State of the Coast

  1. Professional development for students; providing an opportunity for students to share their work and get feedback on how well they communicated about their research or art.
  2. Sharing a diversity of student research and art, so that conference attendees get a holistic look at current work by Oregon students.

Annual Student Exhibition

View the 2023 Books of Student Research Abstracts & Art (PDF)

2023 Research Poster Winners

Judged Winner: Joshua Blockstein - Preferred Community Assets and Latinx Social Capital: A Tale of Trust, Resilience, and Vulnerability

Judged Winner: Luke Stunts - Linking the Terrestrial and the Marine: Predation of Leach's Storm-Petrels by Northern River Otters

People's Choice: Miles Rough - Exploring the impact of sunflower sea stars on localized grazer densities

2023 Student Art Winners

Juried Winner: Vaishnavi Padaki

People's Choice: Kate Larson