2022 Contest Winners

Photography Contest

Female scientists contributing to an environmental assessment for restoring and protecting the highly productive ecosystems that are salt marshes.
ESW 2022 Contest Photography Winner (Litzia Galvan)

Litzia Galvan of Placentia, CA, won first place in the photo contest with an image, captured in Barnestable, MA, of female scientists contributing to an environmental assessment for restoring and protecting the highly productive ecosystems that are salt marshes.

Submissions illustrated the theme “Sustainability in Action.”

Finalists

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ESW 2022 Contest Photography Finalist (Audrey Collins)

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ESW 2022 Contest Photography Finalist (Michael Sipos)

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ESW 2022 Contest Photography Finalist (Taia Saurer)

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ESW 2022 Contest Photography Finalist (Vera Hsiang)

Visual Art Contest

Ways that we can play a positive role in caring for the planet.
ESW 2022 Contest Visual Art Winner (Evelyn MacMichael)

Evelyn MacMichael of Oakland, CA, won first place in the visual arts contest with their colorful, self-portrait drawing that included many examples of ways that she could play a positive role in caring for the planet.

Students in grades K-5 made two-dimensional artworks illustrating the theme “Our Sustainable World.”

Finalists

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ESW 2022 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Kendra Schirckel)

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ESW 2022 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Maxwell Wernicki)

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ESW 2022 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Nathan Xu)

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ESW 2022 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Owen Holt)

Essay Contest

The Cost

Currently, 40,000 species are at risk of extinction because of humans. Not many people understand that the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere are all connected, and everything …

Aislynn Carroll

Aislynn Carroll of Virginia Beach, VA, won first place in the essay contest with their paper titled “The Cost.”

Students in grades 6-9 wrote essays of up to 300 words addressing how the Earth sciences can help achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in areas such as poverty, nutrition, education, equality, ecosystems, climate change, and/or industrial innovation.

The views and assertions presented in essays are neither endorsed by nor reflect the positions the American Geosciences Institute.

Finalists

Keeping the Earth Sustainable

The planet is becoming a destructive place for life due to humans’ unawareness. The Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals display everything that needs to be …

Geoscience For Sustainable Development Goals

One goal that I have is to end world hunger & be able to achieve food security, improve nutrition, & promote sustainable agriculture. I believe …

Life On Land and In Water

Our ecosystems are beautiful and complex. Preservation is of utmost importance as they are being rapidly destroyed at an alarming pace. With the understanding of our Earth …

Earth Sciences play a key role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which include areas such as climate change and ecosystems. Understanding how the atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere …

Video Contest

Yellow to Green: How School Buses Are the Next Step in Global Sustainability.
ESW 2022 Contest Video Winner (Grace Yan)

Grace Yan of Morgantown, WV, won first place in the video contest with their entry “Yellow to Green: How School Buses Are the Next Step in Global Sustainability,” which aims to raise awareness on air pollution and climate change and show how the smallest things on a global scale can push us toward sustainability.

Individuals and teams created brief, original videos exploring the many ways people are using the Earth sciences to make decisions that maintain and strengthen the planet’s ability to support thriving life.