Jon Bloch is very pleased to announce that, after careful review by the Awards Committee (Lucas Majure, Kitty Emery, Hongshan Wang, and Ed Stanley), the following proposals submitted to the NH Fall 2023 Travel Award Competition have been fully funded:
Graduate Students
The Graduate Student 2023 Fall Travel Awards are supported by the FLMNH Department of Natural History, including funds from the Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowment. If you would like to help support this fund for future student awards, please go to:
Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowed Fellowship
Luis Torres (Advisor: Michal Kowalewski)
Mollusk and Echinoid Taphonomy/Geological Society of America (GSA) Connects Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Jacob Bethin (Advisor: Akito Kawahara)
A phylogenetic analysis of Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae)/Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD.
Josh Doby (Advisor: Rob Guralnick)
Desert Rodent Fossils of the Pleistocene/Research at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, AZ.
Domenique Sorresso (Advisor: Charlie Cobb)
Transitional Ceramic Traditions of Late Woodland Communities from the Upper Tombigbee River Drainage, Mississippi/Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN.
Lázaro Viñola López (Advisor: Jon Bloch)
Systematic revision of the Greater Antilles fossil rodents/Research at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY.
Rachel Walsh (Advisor: Akito Kawahara)
US imperiled butterflies/Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD.
Chelsea Skojec (Advisor: Akito Kawahara)
Long read genome assembly of Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)/Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD.
Maria Camila Vallejo-Pareja (Advisors: Dave Blackburn, Jon Bloch)
How big were these old, dead frogs? Inferring mass and SVL for a Late Cretaceous community of fossil frogs/ Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Seattle, WA.
Lillian Hendrick (Advisor: Jaret Daniels)
Using frass to estimate lepidopteran species richness across an urban gradient/Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD.
Mitchell Riegler (Advisor: Jon Bloch)
Early Miocene Snakes from Florida and a Reassessment of North American Fossil Boines/Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Undergraduate Students
The Undergraduate Student 2023 Fall Travel Awards are supported by the FLMNH Department of Natural History, including funds from the Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowment. If you would like to help support this fund for future student awards, please go to:
Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowed Fellowship
Samantha Zbinden (Advisor: Jon Bloch)
Fossil Salamanders (Amphibia, Caudata) From the Oligocene of Florida/Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Postdocs
The Postdoc 2023 Fall Travel Awards are funded with the support of the FLMNH Directors Office and the Department of Natural History.
Jaimi Gray (Digital Imaging, Ed Stanley)
“SlicerMorph: Train the Trainers” Workshop/University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs, San Juan Island, WA.
Yash Sondhi (Lepidoptera, Akito Kawahara)
Effect of artificial light on insect activity times and flight patterns/ Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD.
Collections Managers & Science Staff
The CMSS 2023 Fall Travel Awards are funded with the support of the FLMNH Directors Office and the Department of Natural History.
Taylor Pierson (Lepidoptera)
New genome assembly for the Polyphemus moth, Antheraea polyphemus/Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD.
Andrea Torvinen (FL Archaeology)
Workshop: How to Participate in the Pan-American Ceramics Project/ Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN.
Rachel Narducci (Vertebrate Paleontology)
Hunting for fossils in the sunshine state: modernizing the Florida Fossil Permit Program/ Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Aaron Woodruff (Vertebrate Paleontology)
New insights into the Late-Cenozoic paleocommunity of the Haile 22a site of Alachua County, Florida/ Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Conference, Cincinnati, OH.