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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 fieldwork and research. Applications are reviewed by a selection committee of practicing wetland scientists.
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 should be enrolled at a university within the United States.
Selection criteria:
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Technical merit of proposed work.
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Degree to which the work is relevant to the Garden Club objective of promoting wetlands conservation.
Preference for:
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Students who are early in their degree programs.
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Field-based research that occurs in coastal wetlands of the U.S.
Applicants must provide by February 1, 2010:
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A resume/C.V.;
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A written plan for the work to be undertaken during the scholarship period; and
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A letter of endorsement from the applicant’s graduate faculty advisor.
***** See application requirements for detailed instructions. *****
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2009
 Prabhu Das - Quantifying the Effectiveness of Previous Marsh Restoration Efforts by
Remotely Monitoring Marsh Biophysical Parameters -
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana - field photo
 James Doherty - Diversity and Functioning in a Tijuana Estuary Salt Marsh Restoration -
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
 Joanna Nelson - Directional Ecological Change in the Marine -Terrestrial Interface: Interactions of Nutrient Pollution and Sea-Level Rise in Estuary Habitats of Elkhorn Slough, California -
University of California, Santa Cruz, California
 Sarah Schillawski - Sources of Watershed Dissolved Organic Carbon and its Potential Impacts on
Wetland and Estuarine Waters of the York River Estuary, Virginia -
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia
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
Eileen Thorsos - Effects of plant traits on methane fluxes from a North Carolina restored wetland -
Duke University, University
Program in Ecology (UPE), 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
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2007
Azure E. Bevington, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary - The influence of environmental factors and nutrient availability on Typha spp. dominance in created wetlands
2007 Summer Update and Final Report
Jessica Erin Hines - University of Maryland, Department of Entomology - More Than Muck Munchers: Detritivores Impact Primary Producer Food Web
2007 Final Report
Emily Russell Howe - School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington - Variation in food web connectivity across intertidal gradients in embayment and fluvially-dominated estuaries
2007 Final Report
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2006
 Josette Marie La Hée, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University - Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on Benthic Periphyton Mat Communities in Two South Florida Coastal Wetland Habitats.
Final Report 2007
 Alysa Remsburg, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Effects of Lakeshore Vegetation on Dragonfly Diversity
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2005
 Brittina A. Argow, Dept of Earth Sciences, Boston University - Investigating the in-situ relationship between vegetation, hydrodynamics, sedimentation, and surface morphology across a northern salt marsh, Wells, ME, USA
 Raelene Crandall, Louisiana State University - Effects of multiple disturbances on congeneric reseeders and resprouters ( Hypericum spp.) along Gulf coast ecoclines
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2004
 Tracy Elsey - University of Louisiana, Lafayette - Patterns of Plant Community Development in Created Salt Marshes of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana
Final Report.
 Elizabeth Watson - University of California, Berkeley - California tidal marsh vegetation change: a thirty-year record of changes in plant distribution and abundance in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary.
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2003
 Polly Hicks - Rutgers University - Seed dispersal dynamics in restored salt marshes: implications for restoration success
Final Report
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2002
 Alison Fisher - University of California, Davis - Plant pathogens in Pacific Coast estuaries: causes and consequences
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 Letitia Grenier - University of California, Berkeley - New Insights into the Salt Marsh Food Chain
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2001
 Matthew Katz - University of California, Davis - Evolution of Herbivore Defense in the Invasive Grass Spartina alterniflora: A Mechanism for Biological Control and Restoration
GCA Wetlands Scholarship Award Recipients in 2000
 Hem Nalini Morzaria Luna - University of Wisconsin, Madison - Enhancing germination and establishment in salt marsh restoration
Christina Richards - University of Georgia - Physiological traits and genetic patterns underlying salt marsh plant distribution across steep environmental gradients |
