Past Grant Recipients
2021
Jeffrey L. Coleman : $500
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
- How Have Epipedobates Poison Frogs Acquired Chemical Defense?
Nicholas H. Coppock : $500
- Department of Biology, Missouri State University
- What Role Does Acoustic Communication Play in Chelonian Behavioral Ecology? Correlating the Acoustic and Behavioral Repertoires of Hicatee (Dermatemys mawii)
Dr. Chelsea S. Kross : $750
- Forbes Biological Station, Illinois Natural History Survey
- Understanding the Effects of Moist Soil Management on Herpetofauna in Illinois Wetlands
Alexandra May Martin : $750
- Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University
- Plasticity of Antipredator Diving Behavior in Variable Environments
Corrie J. Navis : $1,000
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- Integrative Conservation & Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia
- Using Striped Newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) Life History to Inform Captive Rearing and Repatriation Efforts
2020
Justin Elden : $1,000
- Highlands & Islands Conservatory
- Constructing a Herpetarium to Benefit the Conservation of Endangered Guatemalan Herps
Thornton Larson : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
- Cryptic Speciation of Fanged-frogs in the Volcanoes of Java and Sumatra
(Limnonectes kuhlii Species Complex [Anura: Dicroglossidae])
Joseph M. Redinger : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas
- Effect of a Top Predator (Crotaphytus collaris) on Prey Populations,
Community Structures, and Ecosystem Function in Ozark Glades
Tristan D. Schramer : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University
- The Peak of Extinction? Conservation Genomics and Hidden Diversity in Mexican
Montane Pitvipers (Viperidae: Cerrophidion) [deferred to 2021 due to travel restrictions]
Courtney Silver-Peavey : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University
- Carryover Effects of Pesticide Exposure and Pond Drying on Exploratory and
Risk-taking Behavior in a Vernal Pool-breeding Amphibian, the Wood Frog
Aamod Mohan Zambre : $1,000
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? Testing the Perceptual Tuning Hypothesis of
Diversification of Sexual Signal Design in Fan-throated Lizards
2019
Elijah Bieri : $500
- Undergraduate, Northern Michigan University
- Assessing Ambystoma laterale Road Mortality and Mitigation Strategies at Presque Isle Park, Marquette, Michigan
Adam Clause, Ph.D. : $1,000
- Rediscovering Dragons: Conservation of Flagship Abronia in a Biodiversity Hotspot
Elizabeth Hucker : $500
- Undergraduate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Using a Systematic Coverboard Monitoring Network to Reveal Effects of Climate and Habitat Modification for Small Colubrids
Michael W. Itgen : $1,000
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University
- Cell Size Evolution Mediates Simplification in Organ Morphology
Joseph Kennedy : $1,000
- Department of Biology, The University of Mississippi
- The Role of Reproductive Interference and Endocrine Stress in the Decline of Green Treefrogs following Cuban Treefrog Invasions
Javier Méndez-Narváez : $1,000
- Department of Biology, Boston University
- Developmental Plasticity, Enzymatic Regulation of N-excretion, and the Reproductive Colonization of Land by Frogs
Alder Nichols : $1,000
- Undergraduate, Beloit College
- What’s under the Surface: Do Ecosystem Characteristics Predict Diet, Growth, and Shell Morphology in Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta)?
John G. Palis : $500
- Palis Environmental Consulting
- Bird-voiced Treefrog Survey of Southernmost Illinois
Gerard Tasse, Ph.D. : $1,000
- Outreach and Education to Foster the Conservation of the Goliath Frog (Conraua goliath), the Largest Frog on Earth in Cameroon
Whitney Walkowski : $1,000
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
- Endocrine Control of Retinal Sensitivity in the Green Treefrog, Hyla cinerea
Kathleen Webster : $1,000
- Lugwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics
- Island Diskinktion: Variability of Two Skink Species in the Comoros Archipelago
Matthew Welc : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University
- Clinal Variation in Shell Morphology in a Musk Turtle Species (Sternotherus peltifer) throughout the Cahaba River Drainage of North-central Alabama
Katherine Wiesehan : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Conservation Status of the State-Threatened Illinois Chorus Frog, Pseudacris illinoensis, in Southwestern Illinois
2018
Christopher Alkali : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Evolution of Imprecise Coral Snake Mimicry
Sarah J. Baker : $1,000
- Illinois Natural History Survey
- Immunologic Response of Illinois Snake Species to Snake Fungal Disease
Catherine Chen : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Role and Evolutionary Significance of Multimodal Signaling in Hybridizing Spadefoot Toads
Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum : $500
- Rebounding Blanding’s: Conservation-based Outreach and Education
Michaela Lambert : $1,000
- Department of Forestry and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Kentucky
- Factors Affecting Amphibian Occupancy, Abundance, and Species Richness of Artificial Wetlands on a Reforested Surface Mine in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Zachary Lange : $1,000
- Department of Biology, John Carroll University
- Thermal Biology and Habitat Use May Lead Terrestrial-breeding Frogs (Pristimantis) into an Ecological Trap
Ann-Elizabeth Nash : $1,000
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado
- Social Structure of Spiny-tailed Iguanas, Ctenosaura similis
Alexander Okamoto : $750
- Undergraduate, The University of Chicago
- Limb Anatomy of the Tortoise Agrionemys horsfieldii
Christopher Pelecchia : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi
- Population Genetics of Cyclura ricordii and Cyclura cornuta south of Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
Justin Perrault : $1,000
- Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach, Florida
- Conservation and Comprehensive Health Assessments of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Juno Beach, Florida
2017
Davinia Beneyto Garrigos : $1,000
- Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Evolution, University of Valencia, Spain
- Hormone Disruptors: Geographic Distribution of Sex Ratio Biases of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)
Andrew Frank : $1,000
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
- Testing the Adaptive Nature of Juvenile Tail Color Morphs in a Western North America Skink
Harrison Goldspiel : $1,000
- Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- The Contribution of Aquatic Versus Terrestrial Habitats in Regulating Populations of Amphibians with Complex Life Cycles
Sean Harrington : $1,000
- Department of Biology, San Diego State University
- A 3-D Geometric Morphometric Approach to Rattlesnake Cranial Evolution
Chace Holzheuser : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland
- Chasing Shadows: Quantifying Changes in Distribution and Occupancy of the Southern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus) in Florida
Eric B. Liebgold and Tami S. Ransom : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Environmental Studies, Salisbury University
- Genetic Diversity and Population Connectivity of the Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata), a Species of Conservation Concern
Diego A. Ortiz : $1,000
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
- Systematics and Biogeography of the Slender-legged Tree Frog (Osteocephalus taurinus) Species Complex in the Amazon Basin
Mallary Rae Parker : $1,000
- Undergraduate, University of Arizona
- Conservation Genetics of the World’s Largest Frog (Conraua goliath) in Cameroon
Nicolette Roach : $1,000
- Applied Biodiversity Sciences & Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
- Using Bioacoustics to Assess the Distribution, Vulnerability, and Conservation of Five IUCN Threatened Atelopus Species in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Christopher Smaga : $1,000
- Undergraduate, Southern Illinois University
- Impact of Snake Fungal Disease (Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola) in Southern Illinois
2016
Kelly L. Barnhart : $1,000
- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Priming Immune Function of Critically Endangered Panamanian Golden Frogs Prior to
Reintroduction
Nolan Bielinski : $500
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Recording the Soundscape of Frog Habitats in Chicago’s Fragmented Landscape
Grover J. Brown : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
- The Evolutionary History of Two Species of Musk Turtles (Sternotherus
carinatus and S. minor) and Implications for Conservation
Hilary Frandsen : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Determining the Genetic Diversity of Kemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) Sea
Turtles Using Mitochondrial Genomes
Jennifer McKenzie : $1,000
- Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky
- Effects of Snake Fungal Disease on Natricine Snakes Across an Urban-rural Gradient
Freya E. Rowland : $1,000
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri
- Subsidies and the Balance of Green and Brown Energy in Pond Food Webs
Mark Sandfoss : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Florida
- Rates of Water Flux in a Unique Insular Population of Pitviper
Monica Winebarger : $1,000
- Biology Department, Appalachian State University
- Signaling Function of Coloration in Plethodontid Salamanders of Southern Appalachia
2015
Anthony Carmona : $1,000
- Department of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University
- Re-describing a Lost Species from North America: The Forgotten Vine Snake
Oxybelis microphthalmus
Madeline Cooper : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University
- Examining Invasive Bullfrog (Rana [Lithobates] catesbeiana)
Movement Patterns on the Trinity River
Chris Lechowicz : $1,000
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
- SCCF Pine Island Sound Eastern Indigo Snake Project
John G. Palis : $500
- Palis Environmental Consulting
- Do Crawfish Frogs Still Occur in Westernmost Illinois?
Aaron Reedy : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia
- An Evolutionary Battle of the Sexes: Using a Reptile Model to Examine Sexual Conflict
and the Genetic Basis of Fitness
Jason Ross : $1,000
- Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign - Spatial Ecology of the Smooth Softshell Turtle (Apalone mutica) in the
Kaskaskia River of Illinois
Alex Shepack : $1,000
- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University
- Back from the Dead?: Rebounding Amphibian Populations with an Enzootic Pathogen
K. Nicole White : $1,000
- University of Georgia and Archbold Biological Station
- Social Dynamics of a Long-Lived Reptile
2014
John Andermann : $750
- Biology Department, San Diego State University
- Testing Species Limits and Modes of Speciation Within the Tiger Whiptail Lizard
(Aspidoscelis tigris) Complex in the Sea of Cortés Using Next-generation DNA
Sequencing Data
Hollis A. Dahn : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida
- Examining Specific and Subspecific Diversity Within Two Monotypic Snake Genera
Eric J. Gangloff : $1,000
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Iowa State University
- Using Metabolomics to Test Thermal Tolerance in the Terrestrial Gartersnake,
Thamnophis elegans
Jade Keehn : $1,000
- Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
- Do Changing Abiotic and Biotic Conditions at Wind Farms Influence Behavior,
Demography, and Species Composition in Desert Reptiles?
Jennifer Y. Lamb : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
- The Conservation Status and Genetics of Dusky Salamanders in the Gulf Coastal Plain
Dustin A. Owen : $1,000
- Center of Excellence for Field Biology, Department of Biology, Austin Peay State
University - Impacts of Prescribed Fire on the Stress Physiology of Two Sympatric Snakes
John G. Palis : $750
- Palis Environmental Consulting
- Conservation Status of Crawfish Frogs in Southernmost Illinois
Jennifer Stabile : $1,000
- Department of Herpetology, Albuquerque Biological Park
- The Coqui Conservation Initiative: Population Assessment and Reproductive Study of
the Mona Island Coqui Frog
John Vanek : $1,000
- Department of Biology, Hofstra University
- Ecology of Eastern Hognose Snakes on a Barrier Island
Jessica Marie Vannatta : $1,000
- Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University
- Seasonal Corticosterone and Leukocyte Levels, Presence of Ranavirus, and
Demographic Characteristics of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, in a
Wetlands Habitat of Middle Tennessee
Kai Wang : $780
- Washington State University
- Courtship Behaviors of the Newly Described Diannan Crocodile Newt, Tylototriton
yangi: Total Evidence of its Validity and Phylogenetic Relationship
Denita M. Weeks : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis
- Impacts of Larval Stress on Development of Adult Skin Defenses in Anurans
2013
Iwo P. Gross : $1,000
- Eastern Illinois University (undergraduate)
- Assessing and Alleviating the Negative Effects of Vehicle Access on a Snake
Community within a State Park
Matthew L. Holding : $500
- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University
- A Tale of Two Traits: Do Coevolutionary Processes Shape the Venoms of Northern
Pacific Rattlesnakes and Resistance Levels of California Ground Squirrels?
João Pedro Moura da Costa Maia : $1,000
- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da
Universidade do Porto (Vairão, Portugal) - In Cold Blood: Community Ecology of Reptile Hemoparasites
Micah W. Perkins : $1,000
- Biology Department, University of Louisville
- Dietary Resource Partitioning among Watersnakes in Northwestern Kentucky
Kimberly E. Schmidt : $1,000
- Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Habitat Selection of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata) within
Restored and Remnant Tallgrass Prairie
Jaime Villacampa Ortega : $500
- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- Changes in Amphibian Assemblages along an Elevational Gradient at the Manu
Biosphere Reserve, Southern Peru
Daniel B. Wylie : $1,000
- Illinois Natural History Survey
- “Ongoing Health Assessment and Prevalence of Chrysosporium in the
Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)
Michael L. Yuan : $1,000
- Cornell University (undergraduate)
- Characterization of Cryptic Kin Structure in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus
polyphemus) at Archbold Biological Station
2012
Stacy Beyer : $500
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign - Role of Forests in the landscape Epidemiology of an Amphibian Chytrid Fungus
Edwin Cadena : $1,000
- Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State
University - A New Fossil Turtle from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) of Colombia (South
America); Revealing the Early Stages of Marine Turtles Evolution
Chip Cochran : $1,000
- Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University
- Investigating Venom Variation in Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus across its Range by
Proteomic and Transcriptome Analysis
Forest Preserve District of DuPage County (Dan Thompson, Principal Investigator) : $1,000
- Blanding’s Turtle Recovery Program, DuPage County, Illinois
Joseph Frumkin : $1,000
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (undergraduate)
- The Role of Color Morph on Territoriality in the Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon
cinereus
Kory H. Heiken : $500
- Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University
- The Physiological Effects of Long-distance Translocation on Southern Pacific
Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus helleri)
Dustin Owen : $500
- Ball State University (undergraduate)
- Physiological Impacts of Silviculture Treatments and Roads on Copperheads
(Agkistrodon contortrix)
Thomas Andrew Radzio : $1,000
- Department of Biology, Drexel University
- Effects of Season and Thermal Environment on Behavioral Thermoregulation and Its
Relative Costs in Juvenile Gopher Tortoises
Rebecca Tarvin : $500
- Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The University of Texas at Austin
- Does Alkaloid Insensitivity Facilitate Aposematism and Diet Specialization in Poison
Frogs?
Marisa Tellez : $500
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los
Angeles - Environmental and Anthropogenic Impact on Parasitism between Alligator
mississippiensis in Florida and Louisiana
Kyle Weichert : $500
- Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University
- Does Host Lizard Sex Affect Their Ability to Kill the Lyme Disease Causative Agent
Borrelia burgdorferi?
Andrew William Whitworth : $500
- College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
- The Conservation Value of Regenerating Tropical Forests for Amphibians and Reptiles
and the Threats Involved, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Southern Peru
2011
Melissa Amarello : $1,000
- SoLS Graduate Program, Arizona State University
- The Role of Kin Selection in Rattlesnake Aggregations
Gerardo Antonio Cordero : $500
- Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
- How Does the Turtle’s Shell Get Its ‘Hinge’?
Richard L. Essner, Ph.D. : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Captive Husbandry in the Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog, Ascaphus montanus
Maxwell B. Joseph : $500
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
- The Legacy of an Emerging Disease: Post-epizootic Pathogen Persistence in the
Landscape
Justin Perrault : $500
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
- Salps to Sea Turtles: Mercury and Selenium Concentrations in Leatherback Sea Turtles
and Their Prey. Does Biomagnification Lead to Low Hatch and Emergence Success?
Joshua Scholl : $1,000
- Florida Atlantic University (undergraduate)
- Gopher Tortoise Burrow Distribution and Demography in a Declining Southeastern
Florida Habitat
Melanie N. Stock : $500
- Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Urban Heat Island Effects on Deep-Terrestrial Hibernating Amphibians
2010
Alecia Carter : $500
- The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
- Testing Untested Assumptions of Behavioral Syndromes: Does the Asset Protection
Principle Apply?
Grant Connette : $535
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
- A Mechanistic Examination of Salamander Declines in Response to Timber Harvesting
Reginald Theodor Mwaya : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University
- Effects of Human-induced Habitat Change on Populations of the East African Endemic
Pancake Tortoise, Malacochersus tornieri (Family: Testudinidae), in Tanzania, East
Africa
Maya Groner : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- Effects of Predator Stress on Immune Function and Susceptibility of Anurans to the
Emergent Infectious Disease Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Nicholas B. Pollock : $500
- Department of Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University
- Factors Influencing Ectoparasitism on Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus
occidentalis): Testosterone, Vitellogenesis and Health
Shahriar C. Rahman : $500
- Brooklyn College (undergraduate)
- Evaluating the Effects of Nest Protectors for Turtle Conservation
Rory S. Telemeco : $1,000
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
- How Did Viviparity Evolve in Squamate Reptiles? An Experimental Test of the
Maternal-manipulation Hypothesis
Dan Zeh : $963.90
- Environmental Studies Department, Antioch University
- Natural History of Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Populations in
Southwestern New Hampshire and Recommendations for Conservation Management
2009
Whitney J. Banning : $657
- Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign - Impacts of Landscape Alteration on Freshwater Turtle Populations
J. D. Steeves Buckland : $500
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol UK
- Status and Conservation of Mauritian Fauna and Flora Threatened by the Invading
Madagascar Giant Day Gecko, Phelsuma grandis
C. Drew Foster : $500
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Using Noninvasive, Fecal Hormonal Analysis to Characterize the Reproductive and
Stress Biology of the Prehensile-tailed Skink (Corucia zebrata)
Maya Groner : $1,000
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- Effects of Predator Stress on Immune Function and Susceptibility of Anurans to the
Emergent Infectious Disease Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Paul M. Hampton : $500
- Department of Biology, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Venom Function in Pitvipers: Does Prey Envenomation Enhance Digestive Performance
and Reduce its Cost?
Abigail J. Maley : $500
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Variation in Four-toed Salamander, Hemidactylium scutatum, Microhabitat Use
Across Age Groups and Sexes
Tami S. Ransom : $300
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia
- Salamanders Mediate Below to Above-ground Interactions through Direct, Indirect, and
Ecosystem Engineering Pathways with Earthworms
Kelsey Reider : $300
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
- Do Peccaries Drive Community Changes in a Neotropical Leaf Litter Herpetofauna?
Dan Zeh : $500
- Environmental Studies, Antioch University
- The Natural History of Two Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Populations in
Southwestern New Hampshire
2008
Jake A. Brashears : $480
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
- Facultative Thermogenesis in Pythons — How and Why Ectotherms Become
Endotherms
Meagan Leigh Harless : $250
- School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological
University - Effects of Road Deicing Chemicals on Larval Amphibians
Robert H. Hegna : $400
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
- A Study of Aposematism in the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga
pumilio): The Effect of Density, Spots, and Color on Predation with Conservation
Implications
Charles Knapp : $500
- Center for Conservation and Research for Endangered Species, Zoological Society of
San Diego - Enhancement of the Green Iguana Conservation Breeding Program at the Iguana Verde
Foundation, Costa Rica
Eric Liebgold : $300
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia
- The Effects of Social Environment on the Growth and Behavioral Phenotype of
Juveniles of a Terrestrial Salamander, Plethodon cinereus
Cy L. Mott : $400
- Department of Zoology, Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois
University - Prevalence and Ecology of Fungal Infections among Breeding Aggregations of
Ambystomatid Salamanders in Southern Illinois
Peter J. Muelleman : $475
- Truman State University
- Assessing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection Levels in the Amphibian
Communities in Upland and Lowland Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems of Northern Calhoun
County, Illinois
Tami S. Ransom : $300
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia
- Are the Behavioral Responses of Red-backed Salamanders to an Ecosystem Engineer
Influenced by Their Evolutionary History?
Michael Reichert : $500
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri
- Character Convergence in Sympatry of Aggressive Calls in Two Frog Species, Hyla
chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor
Tiffany Schriever : $500
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto at
Scarborough - The Role of Larval Amphibians in Temporary Pond Systems
Brooke L. Talley : $250
- Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University
- Surveying Illinois Amphibians for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection
2007
Bill Flanagan : $250
- Grand Valley State University
- Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Evaluate the Michigan Distribution of the Western
Lesser Siren (Siren intermedia nettingi)
Chris Lechowicz : $500
- Florida Gulf Coast University / Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation.
- Population Characteristics and Possible Hybridization of Graptemys Species in
the Choctawhatchee River Drainage
Diana Lutz : $250
- Michigan State University
- Behavioral and Ecological Study of Clemmys guttata (Schneider)
William E. Peterman : $500
- University of Missouri, Division of Biological Sciences
- Road Effects on Southern Appalachian Salamander Assemblages
Beth Pettitt : $500
- University of Minnesota, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
- Acoustic Communication and Parental Care in Two Species of Neotropical Frogs
Cindy Rampacek : $150
- Small Scale Reptile Rescue
- Reptile Management in Shelter Environments
2006
Philip A. Cochran : $275
- Biology Department, Saint Mary? University
- Monitoring Snake Hibernacula in Southeastern Minnesota
Bradley J. Cosentino : $300
- Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois
- Dispersal and Population Structure of Pond‑breeding Amphibians in a
Fragmented Landscape
Ryan McCleary : $455
- Department of Zoology, University of Florida
- Effects of the Accessory Venom Gland on Venom Composition of the Florida
Cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti
Julie M. Ray : $480
- Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University
- Effects of Amphibian Decline on the Trophic Ecology of Mollusk-eating Snakes
S. Alexandra Siess : $250
- Arlington, VA
- The Spotted Turtles in Maryland from the 1970s to Today
Zachary R. Stahlschmidt : $500
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
- Assessing the Physiological Implications of Egg-brooding Behavior in Pythons
2005
Whitney J. Banning : $500
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Partitioning along a Spatial Gradient in a Freshwater Turtle Community Study
in Illinois
Zach Felix : $500
- Center for Forestry and Ecology, Alabama A&M University
- Microhabitat and Movement Patterns of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene c.
carolina) in Forest Stands Managed for Timber Production
Alan Kardon : $500
- 21947 Pelican Creek, San Antonio, Texas
- Life History Traits of Crotalus polystictus: A Long-term Mark & Recapture
Study
Ali M. Rabatsky : $500
- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana (Lafayette)
- Vestigialization of the Rattle in Three Insular Rattlesnake Species
Anne Readel : $500
- Illinois Natural History Survey
- Effect of Habitat Degradation on the Health and Conservation of Painted Turtles
(Chrysemys picta)
Amanda L. Subalusky : $500
- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
- The Role of Seasonal Wetlands in the Ecology of the American Alligator
Christopher A. Conner : $300
- University of Missouri
- The Permeability of Altered Habitat to Migration in Forest-dependent Amphibians
Daniel A. Warner : $300
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney
- The Adaptive Significance of Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in an
Australian Agamid Lizard
2004
Amy Cunkelman : $500
- Department of Biology, Villanova University
- Radio Telemetry to Examine Habitat Utilization in Rhacodactylus leachianus
and Rhacodactylus trachyrhynchus
Karen Davis : $500
- University of Tennessee
- Numerical Discrimination and Cognitive Abilities in Turtles (Pseudemys
nelsoni)
Timothy Hunkapiller : $317.20
- Illinois Natural History Survey
- Reproductive Ecology of the Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica)
Deb Krohn : $452
- Plum Creek Nature Center, Forest Preserve District of Will County, Illinois
- Skeletal Herpetological Specimens for Student Educational Programs
Michael Malawy : $500
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
- An Investigation into Selected Body Temperature and Post-Prandial responses of the
Western Diamand-backed Rattlesnake, (Crotalus atrox)