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!
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.