Earlier this month, some of the world’s brightest young business leaders, artists, non-profit founders, and others participating in the Summit at Sea shared their ideas about how their various groups could help tackle the biggest problems facing the ocean.

After gathering more than 60 such ideas, we highlighted 15, and visitors to this blog were invited to vote for their favorites to name a Viewers’ Choice Winner. The results are now in, and the winner is Jane Kim (2010 Science Illustration Program graudate), an artist and scientific illustrator who felt she could do the most by increasing the public’s emotional connection to ocean life. (Read more here - opens in a new browser tab/window)