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Recursos

Becas para estudiantes

Congratulations to this year's MWPARC Travel Grant: Fueling Student Field Experiences winners!

Graduate students:

  • Kerri Beers, St. Cloud State University. "Aquatic vs. terrestrial: surveying anurans for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in Minnesota."

  • Alyssa Roberts, St. Cloud State University. "Comparing traditional and environmental DNA methods to detect the Four-toed Salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum) in Minnesota."

  • Luke Tonsfeldt, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. "Northward expansion of ecologically damaging amphibians and reptiles."

Undergraduate students:

  • Grace Allen, Missouri Western State University. "Spatial ecology of Blanding's Turtle, Emydoidea blandingii, on Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, northwest Missouri."

  • Kayla Coggins, Louisiana State University. "Northern extreme of snake fungal disease."

  • Kevin Green, Eastern New Mexico University. "Examening the current distribution of the invasive Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis) along the Ohio River."

Midwest PARC ofrece una beca de viaje a los estudiantes para ayudar a compensar los costos de transporte asociados con la participación en el trabajo de campo herpetológico con un investigador experimentado. ¡En 2021, se otorgaron 12 becas ($ 100) a estudiantes de la región del Medio Oeste!  Consulte a continuación los detalles de la solicitud y para leer los informes presentados por los beneficiarios de subvenciones anteriores .

Ya no aceptamos becas de viaje para la temporada 2021.

¡Estén atentos para información sobre premios futuros!

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2023 Travel Grant Recipients

IMG_4097 - Benjamin Genter (1).HEIC
Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

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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Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

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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Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

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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Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

Click here to read about Joey's work with Blanding's Turtles.

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Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

Click here to read about Danielle's work with ranavirus.

Resized_20220818_111143 - Samantha Skerlec.heic
Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

Click here to read about Samantha's work with wetland drying and amphibians.

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Destinatario 2021: Katherine Brandewie 

Click here to read about Stephanie's work with phenotypic plasticity in amphibians.

Scholarship recipient Katie Brandewie holding a common snapping turtle
Destinatario 2021: 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. 

2022 Travel Grnt
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2023 Repots
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