2024 WAVE Award from Madison Media Professionals for the “Coon Valley Watershed Council” video, plus student merit awards for three videos: “How Pesticides Affect Groundwater,” “Eva Riveros Groundwater Research,” and “Gabby’s Wild Rice Research.”

2024 National Sea Grant Communications Award for the Eat Wisconsin Fish video series

2024 Council for Advancement and Support of Education Silver Award for the podcast series “Public Trust”

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, Wisconsin Water News

2019 AVA Digital Gold Award for “Central Sands Nitrogen” podcast, Wisconsin Water News

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