2006 GRANT-IN-AID RECIPIENTS
J. Amy Belaire
– Duke University
Exploring the use of arboreal habitat by green
salamanders
4 weeks, $1200
Sarah Bevins
– Colorado State University
Establishment of a new invasive mosquito
species
3 weeks, $900
Mollie Cashner
– Tulane University
Symbiotic reproduction in minnows:
explorations in ecological and evolutionary diversity
7 weeks, $2100
John Crawford
– University of Missouri
Beyond the edge: Estimation of core
habitats & buffer zones for stream salamanders
14 weeks, $4200 *Charles W. Ash
Memorial Scholarship*
Larry Grand
– North Carolina State University
Biogeography & biodiversity of wood
decay fungi in the southern Appalachian mountains
with emphasis on species of
Fomes and Piptoporus
2 weeks, $800
Diana L. Huestis
– University of Texas at Arlington
Genetics of embryonic diapause in the
striped ground cricket,
Allonemobius socius
3 weeks, $900 *Thelma Howell
Memorial Scholarship*
David McNeill
– Mississippi State University
Determination of hypovirulent & virulent
strains of Cryphonectria
parasitica collected from the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and
their vegetative compatibility
8, weeks $2400 *Lindsay S.
Olive Memorial Scholarship*
William E. Peterman
– University of Missouri
Effects of riparian buffer width on
larval salamander population dynamics
13 weeks, $3900 *Bruce Family
Scholarship in Herpetology*
William D. Starrett
– Mississippi State University
Effects of pathogenic & mycorrhizal
fungal associations within healthy and declining
Rhododendron populations
8 weeks, $2400
Julie Wyatt
– Wake Forest University
Impact of logging history on species
coexistence in the herbaceous layer of cove hardwood forests
6 weeks, $1800
