The fifth HCAS Graduate Science Research Symposium (Formerly OC Jamboree and HCNSO Life Sciences Research Symposium) took place February 13-14, 2025. NSU graduate students and research scientists presented on their current life science research projects at the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center and Halmos College of Arts and Science. Faculty, postdocs and graduate students presented technical summaries of research covering a wide array of diverse marine topics: physical oceanography, coral reefs, microbiology, synthetic biology, larval ecology, bill fish, shark tracking, marine genomics, marine diseases, invertebrate physiology, evolution among others.