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