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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 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.
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