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Awards

Student Grants

Congrats to our Fueling Student Field Experience Award winners!

High School Awardee(s):

Benjamin Genter (southern Indiana)

 

Undergraduate Awardee(s):

Kayla Coggins (Louisiana State University; conducting field work in Wisconsin)

Ella Wittmuss (University of South Dakota)

 

Graduate Student Awardee(s):

Caley Johnson (Grand Valley State University)

Shania Burkhead (Wichita State University)

You can read reports from grant awardees from 2022 and 2021 below!

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2022 Travel Grant Recipients

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2022 Recipient: Joey Cannizzaro

Click here to read about Joey's work with Blanding's Turtles.

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2022 Recipient: Danielle Galvin

Click here to read about Danielle's work with ranavirus.

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2022 Recipient: Samantha Skerlec

Click here to read about Samantha's work with wetland drying and amphibians.

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2022 Recipient: Stephanie Bristow

Click here to read about Stephanie's work with phenotypic plasticity in amphibians.

2021 Travel Grant Recipients

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2021 Recipient: Nathan Barnett

Click here to read about Nathan's work with massasaugas, crayfish burrows, and Snake Fungal Disease.

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

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2021 Recipient: Michelle Souza

Click here to read about Michelle's project which investigates genetic diversity and habitat isolation in a peripheral population of marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum).

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

Brenna smiling infront of a harmful algal bloom.
2021 Recipient: Brenna Friday

Click here to read about Brenna's research with Green Frogs and harmful algal blooms.

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

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2021 Recipient: Bradley Johnson

Click here to read about Bradley's work with box turtles in Indiana.

 

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

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2021 Recipient: Paolo Speziale

Click here to read about Paolo's work with amphibian and invertebrate larvae in ephemeral wetlands in Illinois.

 

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

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2021 Recipient: Danielle Galvin

Click here to read about Danielle's work with amphibians and ranavirus. 

 

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

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2021 Recipient: Katherine Brandewie 

Click here to read about Katie's work with turtle communities in a large urban wetland complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

 

Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles. 

2021 Travel Grant
2022 Travel Grnt
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