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KENTUCKY SOCIETY OF  NATURAL HISTORY
STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS IN THE FIELDS OF
NATURAL HISTORY/BIODIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Click Here for information on grants for graduate and under-graduate students and if you are a resident of Kentucky..

Click Here if you are interested if you are a resident of Jefferson County, Kentucky and want to apply for the Woody Boebinger Memorial Scholarship (for graduate students only).

Click Here if you are a resident of Kentucky and attending a Kentucky college or university applying for the Bernadine Meyer Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Congratulations again to all KSNH grant recipients and best of luck to each of you in your research.
Once again KSNH would like to thank the following generous funding sources that make our grants possible: Several KSNH members, the Woody Boebinger family,  Touchstone Energy and Bernadine Meyer family.   We thank you for their your contributions that helps us meet one of our major goals.

In order to continue funding these grants, new monies need to come in each year. KSNH is a not-for-profit, 501-C-3 corporation and all your gifts are fully tax deductible under the tax code. Please remember KSNH Click  making donations to non-profit organizations. We promise we will get the most “bang for your bucks”; and you will be showing your good nature at the same time.

KSNH 2009 GRANT RECIPIENTS

KSNH Grant Coordinator, Wally Roberts, is proud to announce the following 2008 KSNH Grant recipients in the fields of Kentucky’s natural history and biodiversity.

The Bernadine Meyer Memorial Scholarship grant in the amount of $800 goes to Robert C. Johnson, a doctorial candidate at the University of Louisville. Robert’s research is entitled “Consequences of Food Choice in a Dominant Stream Invertebrate Isopod”. This proposal builds on some previous work partially funded through KSNH.

The Woody Boebinger Memorial Scholarship grant in the amount of $750 goes to Tara Trammell, another doctorial candidate at the University of Louisville. Tara’s research is entitled “Modeling Ecosystem Services Provided by Wood Plant Communities Along Interstate Corridors in Louisville, Kentucky”

2009 NATURAL HISTORY/BIODIVERSITY GRANT RECIPIENTS

The KSNH Grant Committee is proud to announce the following grant recipients for 2009:

Woody Boebinger Memorial Scholarship

Allison Smith -University of Louisville

Allison will receive $750 to help with her research “Effects of Climate Warming on Aquatic Invasive Species and Zooplankton Competition”

Bernadine Meyer Memorial Scholarship

Meghan Langley -University of Louisville

Meghan will receive $800 to help with her research “Urbanization Effects of Hydrology of Depressional Forested Wetland and Woody Plant Community Patterns”

KSNH Grants

The following students will receive $500 each to help with their continued research:

Jann Fry - University of Kentucky

“An Ecological Study of Nine Grass Species Native to the Bluegrass Blue Ash-Oak Savannah”

Daniel Douglas - Eastern Kentucky University

“Land Snail Species Diversity and Composition Among Different Forest Disturbance Regimes in Central and Eastern Kentucky Forests”

Andrea Drayer - Eastern Kentucky University

“Natural vs. Artificial Ponds: Amphibian Fitness Correlate Comparison (Size at Metamorphosis)”

Special KSNH Grant in Memory of Long-time Member Mrs. Terry Boice

Michelle Staley - Morehead State University

Michelle Staley will receive $500, in memory of Terry Boice, for her research: “Assessment of Carabid Beetles in Various Seed Mixture Plantings Along a Disturbance Corridor in Lawrence County, Kentucky”

 

Special Request from Wally Roberts, KSNH Grant Committee Coordinator

We were pleased again to be able to give the previously mentioned grants for 2009. Funding often prevents us from fully granting requested research amounts. We thank you for your previous generosity and ask you to consider remembering KSNH in the future. KSNH is a fully non-profit 501-C3 corporation and all donations to the scholarship/grant fund are fully tax deductible under law. Please consider KSNH when planning your memorial and gift giving strategies in the future.


Congratulations to all of our KSNH 2008 grant recipients. KSNH can only proudly award these very important grants with your continued financial support. If you are interested in helping with the continued funding for our KSNH grants, please consider making a generous contribution to the Bernadine Meyer, Woody Boebinger, or KSNH General Scholarship Funds. Some contributors may wish to make arrangements through estates, trusts, or wills. KSNH will happily work with your attorney if this is your preferred method of giving. Regardless of the amount and how you wish to donate, please donate…KSNH depends on your generosity to continue this very important program.

Click Here to see just how our grant monies were used.