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KENTUCKY SOCIETY OF
NATURAL HISTORY 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.
KSNH 2008 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”
KSNH Research Grants were also awarded to the following master’s research students at Eastern Kentucky University: *Julie Clark received $450 toward her research entitled “Vascular Flora at Breaks Interstate Park”. *Michelle Guidugli received $450 toward her research entitled “Orientation and Timing Patterns of Ephemeral Pond-Breeding Amphibians”. *Adrienne Cooper received $450 toward her research on “Discovering Lost Patches of Previously Unknown Old-growth Forests Across Eastern Kentucky”.
KSNH Research Grants were awarded to the following research students at the University of Kentucky: *Anna Thomas, a masters candidate received $450 toward her research entitled “Faunistic Survey of Native and Invasive Slugs in Kentucky using Morphological and Molecular Techniques”. *Tim Sesterhenn, a doctorial candidate received $450 towards his research entitled “Impacts of Non-lethal Injury on the Damselfly (Ischnura posita)”.
KSNH Research Grants were awarded to the following research students at the University of Louisville: *Tyler Kilgore, an undergraduate biology major, received $450 toward his research entitled “In Situ Growth Experiments of Isopods Along an Urbanization Gradient in Louisville, Kentucky”. *Rodney Jonathan White, a doctorial candidate received $450 toward his research entitled “Riparian Soil Functions Along an Urban-rural and Groundwater Depth Gradient and Potential Impacts on Stream water Quality”.
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. |
