Congratulations to several outstanding grant winning graduate students. Awarded grants include:
- H. Jane Brockmann Graduate Research Award ($1750); Felicity Newell – Does behavioral dominance spatially and/or temporally limit access to resources by subordinate species? A study with Grallaria antpittas in northern Peru.
- Davis Graduate Fellowship in Botany ($300); Rebecca Stubbs – Using an enigmatic arctic-alpine plant genus (Micranthes) as a model to answer large-scale biogeographic questions.
- Mildred Mason Griffith Botany Grant ($1000); Sarah Carey – Characterization of a putative chromosomal inversion in the moss Ceratodon pupureus.
- Michael L. May Interdisciplinary Grant ($1000); Barry Kaminsky & Jacob Landis – Are lichens monogamous? Variation within the Leptogium cyanescens complex and its associated photobion in Florida.
- Michael L. May Research Grants ($300); Luciano Soares – Understanding the conservation implications of the extensive hybridization among hawksbill and loggerhead populations in Brazil; Joni Wright – Investigation of peripheral olfactory system responsiveness to biologically relevant odor cues in two new world vultures that demonstrate diverse sensory mediated foraging behavior; and Bonnie Kircher – Growing apart: Characterizing the development of sexual dimorphism in the Anolis dewlap.
- Brian Riewald Memorial Fund Research Grants ($300); Tania Chavarria-Pizarro – Local adaptation along an environmental gradient in the endemic mangrove warbler subspecies (Setophaga petechia xanthotera); Mark Sandfoss – Rates of water flux in a unique insular population of pit-viper; and Matthew Palumbo – Closing the loop of cooperation: determining fitness costs to the symbiotic ants of an Amazonian ant-plant mutualism.
- John Paul Olowo Memorial Fund Research Grants ($300); Leslie Kollar – Investigation of a balanced polymorphism in the Ceratodon purpureus; Mitch Walters – The effects of urban noise pollution on northern mockingbird acoustic signaling and mimicry composition; and Kelly Speer – Using parasite genetics to infer patterns of host dispersal.
- Lewis & Varina Vaughn Fellowship in Orchid Biology ($1500); Richie Hodel – Comparative phylogeography of the mangrove orchid (Brassavola nodosa) and the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) in the Caribbean; and Peter Houlihan – Operation Ghostbuster: Conquering the enigmatic phylogeography and pollination ecology of Caribbean ghost orchids (Dendrophylax spp.).
- Carrie Lynn Yoder Scholarship for Plant Ecology & Conservation Research in Florida ($500); Robert Johnson – Green turtles and blue carbon: effects of grazing on carbon release from seagrass beds.