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Awards

Student Grants

The submission window for the Travel Grants for the 2023 field season is closed. Stay tuned for updates!

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
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