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Grants

  • Jennifer Thornhill, a PhD candidate, has been awarded the Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship in the amount of $10,000.  This scholarship is in support of her research on the role that scientific publications play in policy and management decision-making.  The project focuses on a case study of wolf (Canis lupus) management in the Northern Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes regions of the U.S.

  • Katheryn W. Patterson, a PhD candidate, has recently become a “Cosmos Scholar”. The Trustees of the Cosmos Club Foundation have approved a grant in support of her research proposal entitled "The microbiology and molecular ecology of tissue-loss diseases affecting Acropora cervicornis in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary."

  • Karen Akerlof, a PhD candidate, is a co-investigator in the CASI (Community Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise and Inundation) project which has been funded with a grant from Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant. The grant extends from November 2011 to October 2012. The project will test a model of public engagement to evaluate its efficacy in creating the conditions for the development of community preferences for policies that address sea-level rise and inundation using theoretical models of risk perception, and individual and collective policy preference formation. George Mason University serves as the lead institution, with team members from the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, the School of Public Policy, and the Department of Communication.

  • Richard Groover, a PhD student, has been awarded a 2011 Small Project Grant from the Virginia Academy of Science. His research involves dispersal of dragonflies.

  • Esther Peters, with Stillwater Research Group, Inc., received a grant from NOAA's General Coral Reef Conservation Grants Program for 2009-2010 to investigate "Recruitment and Survival of Threatened Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral) at Looe Key Reef" in the Florida Keys.

  • James D. Lawrey was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, to study Phylogenetic diversity and phenotype evolution in Dictyonema, with emphasis on the Neotropics and the Galapagos Islands in the amount of $407,088 (with P. Gillevet, R. Lücking, F. Bungartz) for the duration 2009-2012.