Garden Club Scholarship

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Education: Garden Club of America Wetlands Scholarship

The Garden Club of America provides an Award in Coastal Wetland Studies. The award is a one year scholarship for graduate studies in coastal wetlands and carries a stipend of $5,000 to support field based research. The goals of the Garden Club are to promote wetlands conservation through the support of young scientists in their field work and research.

All applications are reviewed by a selection committee of practicing wetland scientists. Selection criteria include the technical merit of the proposed work and the degree to which the work is relevant to the Garden Club objective of promoting wetlands conservation. For the purposes of this scholarship, coastal wetlands are defined as those tidal or nontidal wetlands found within coastal states, including the Great Lakes. Applicants must provide: (1) a resume; (2) a written plan for the work to be undertaken during the scholarship period; and (3) a letter of endorsement from the applicant's graduate faculty advisor. Applicants must provide the three items listed below no later than February 1, 2009.

Applicants for the GCA Award in Coastal Wetland Studies should be enrolled at a university within the United States with a particular ongoing wetlands-related project. Although non-coastal wetlands research is eligible and will be considered, there is a preference for research in coastal wetlands that occurs within the United States.

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GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2008

Ryan St. George - A Comparative Evaluation of Freshwater Mitigation Wetlands in Broward County, Florida, Using Chironomid (Diptera) Pupal Exuviae: A Potential Technique for Assessing Mitigation Success - Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center, Dania Beach, FL
	Ryan St. George's study site in Broward County, Florida.

Eileen Thorsos - Effects of plant traits on methane fluxes from a North Carolina restored wetland - Duke University, University Program in Ecology (UPE), Durham, NC
	Eileen Thorsos collecting soil emissions of methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide from a plot of Scirpus cyperinus in Duke Forest, Durham, NC

Kristin Wilson - Are Maine’s salt marshes drowning? An examination of the ecogeomorphology of Maine’s salt pools - University of Maine, Orono, ME

Kristin standing on a block of ice-rafted peat in the Webhannet Estuary in Wells, Maine	Kristin taking a Dutch core through a salt pool in Lubec, Maine with the help of advisor, Dr. Joseph T. Kelley from the University of Maine