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Awards

Student Grants

Congrats to the folks who recieved

Travel Grants for the 2022 field season!

Midwest PARC offers a travel grant to students to help offset transportation costs associated with participating in herpetological fieldwork with an experienced researcher in the Midwest U.S.

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Summer 2022 Field Season Awardees:

  • Samantha Skerlec. "Legacy of past drying events on larval anuran fitness." Kansas.

  • Stephanie Bristow. "Amphibian growth responses to environmental temperature, predation risk, and limited resource availability." Kansas.

  • Joseph Cannizzaro. "Blanding's Turtle Project." Wisconsin.

  • Danielle Galvin. "Ranavirus surveillance in South Dakota and investigating the effects of environmental stressors (drought, disease, and selenium) on amphibian overwintering physiology." South Dakota.

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You can read reports from 2021 grant awardees here!

A brown snake. Image by M. Youngquist.

2021 Travel Grant Recipients

Nathan georeferencing a crayfish burrow.
2021 Recipient: Nathan Barnett

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

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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).

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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.

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

Bradley sitting on the forest floor measuring a box turtle.
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. 

Danielle wearing chest waders holds up two plastic bags containing tadpoles.
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. 

Scholarship recipient Katie Brandewie holding a common snapping turtle
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.