View from the Rutgers University Marine Field Station on Great Bay Blvd., Great Bay Boulevard Wildlife Management Area.
Guests are treated to wine and cheese from Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.
From the left: Dr. Ken Able, Director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station; Roland, Ryland and Rutger Hagan; Lisa Auermuller, Watershed & Outreach Coordinator, Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve; and Margaret O'Gorman, Executive Director of Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ
Margaret welcomes all to the ceremony.
Dr. Ken Able describes who Stacy was and how she made major contributions to science and marine fisheries research.
Lisa Auermuller reads some of Stacy's journal entries to illustrate her strength of character.
Margaret presents the 2008 Women & Wildlife Outstanding Achievement Award to Roland Hagan.
The award, a framed print of a mummichog, or killifish.
Roland expresses his thanks on Stacy's behalf to Margaret and Conserve Wildlife Foundation.
Roland and Marilyn DiGiacobbe from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Foundation describe the Stacy Moore Hagan Memorial Scholarship and introduce the first recipient, Jamie Caridad, center.
Jamie tells Roland and the guests what the scholarship has meant to her.
Rutger and Ryland Hagan, Stacy and Roland Hagan's children
Mrs. Hagan, Roland's mother
Doris Moore, Stacy's mother
Ed and Doris Moore, Stacy's parents.
Sheryl DelGrozzo and her son Cooper, Stacy's sister and nephew
Lisa, Sue Able, and Ida Louise Scott