Awards
Student Grants
Travel Grants for the 2023 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.
We are accepting applications for the 2023 season until April 15th!
Applicants need to:
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Be an enrolled student (high shcool, undergraduate, or graduate) or have graduated within 1-year of the application submission date,
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Conduct herpetological field work that can be applied towards species conservation, in the Midwest U.S., with a Principal Investigator,
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Demonstrate that travel expenses will be incurred due to the fieldwork,
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Be a member of MWPARC (free to join by signing up at https://www.mwparc.org/get-involved),
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Be a U.S. citizen or resident (non-residents are not eligible due to federal regulations)
Download the application form here!
You can read reports from grant awardees from 2022 and 2021 below!
2022 Travel Grant Recipients
2022 Recipient: Samantha Skerlec
Click here to read about Samantha's work with wetland drying and amphibians.
2022 Recipient: Stephanie Bristow
Click here to read about Stephanie's work with phenotypic plasticity in amphibians.
2021 Travel Grant Recipients
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.