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Awards

Student Grants

Stay tuned for news about the 2025 MWPARC Travel Grant: Fueling Student Field Experiences season!

Read about the work of the 2024 recipients below!

How do these grants help students?

You can read reports from grant awardees from previous years below! 

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2024 Travel Grant Recipients

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2024 Recipient: Kayla Coggins

Click here to read about Kayla's work in snake ecology in the Midwest.

Image description: An Eastern Foxsnake resting in the grass.

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2024 Recipient: Kevin Green

Click here to read about Kevin's research with Wall Lizards in Ohio.

Image description: An invasive Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).

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2024 Recipient: Alyssa Roberts

Click here to learn about Alyssa's efforts to monitor Four-toed Salamanders in Minnesota using eDNA.

Image description: Alyssa filters water samples for environmental DNA while in the field. 

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2024 Recipient: Grace Allen

Click here to hear about Grace's research with Blanding's Turtles in Missouri.

Image description: A Blanding's Turtle with a transmitter attached to its carapace.

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2024 Recipient: Luke Tonsfeldt

Click here to learn about Luke's efforts to survey for invasive herps using eDNA. 

Image description: A Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) and a Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) bask on a log.

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2024 Recipient: Kerri Beers

Click here to hear about Kerri's work with ranid frogs and chytrid in Minnesota. 

Image description: Kerri and a team of collaborators swab frogs for chytrid fungi.

2023 Travel Grant Recipients

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2023 Recipient: Benjamin Genter

Click here to read about Benjamin's work with Kirtland's Snakes (Clonophis kirtlandii) in central and northern Indiana.

Image description: A Kirtland's Snake (provided by Benjamin)

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2023 Recipient: Caley Johnson

Click here to read about Caley's work with spotted turtles in Northern Michigan.

Image description: A Spotted Turtle (provided by Caley)

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2023 Recipient: Shania Burkhead

Click here to read about Shania's work with salamanders and habitat drying events.

Image description: An ambystomatid salamander from their mesocosms (provided by Caley)

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: 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. 

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