Past Grants

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

• • 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)