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 Spring 2024 Travel Award Competition have been funded:
Graduate Students
The 2024 Spring Student 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
Cameron Connolly (Advisor: Michelle LeFebvre)
Food for thought: Exploring the cultural and ecological significance of Greater Antillean fisheries/Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual conference, New Orleans, LA
Bharti Parihar (Advisor: Doug & Pam Soltis)
Evolution of leaf succulence within Zygophyllaceae/Plant Genome Evolution and Polyploidy symposium, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Nick Gardner (Advisor: Scott Robinson)
Amazonian Fieldwork/Iquitos, Peru
Thomas Murphy (Advisor: Lucas Majure)
Exploring the diversity and evolution of climbers in the Neotropics: Ongoing studies in the genus Smilax (Smilacaceae)/Monocots VII Conference and fieldwork, Costa Rica
Cristina Oliveira (Advisor: Michelle LeFebvre)
The historical ecology of South Florida shark diversity and Indigenous harvest/Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual conference, New Orleans, LA
Stephanie Killingsworth (Advisor: Bruce MacFadden)
Neogene Equid research/American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Emmaline Sheahan (Advisor: Gavin Naylor & Rob Guralnick)
Tissue sample collection of captive Poroderma africanum for whole genome sequencing and assembly/Newport Aquarium, Newport, KY
Collections Managers & Scientific Staff (CMSS)
The CMSS 2024 Spring Travel Awards are supported by the FLMNH Department of Natural History, including funds from the Hoyt and Marta Whipple Biodiversity Fund and the Mary Ross Endowment. If you would like to help support these funds for future Postdoc and CMSS travel awards, please go to:
Hoyt and Marta Whipple Biodiversity Fund
Jennifer Green (S FL Archaeology & Ethnography)
Archaeology of the Eastern Oyster: Collection and Curation Practices by North American Practitioners/Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual conference, New Orleans, LA
Verity Mathis (Mammalogy)
Southeastern Bat Diversity Network meeting/34th Annual Colloquium on the Conservation of Mammals, Hilton Head Island, SC
Andrei Sourakov (Lepidoptera)
Moth sampling in the Appalachians/Fieldwork, Appalachians, Davis, WV
Postdocs
The Postdoc 2024 Spring Travel Awards are supported by the FLMNH Department of Natural History, including funds from the Hoyt and Marta Whipple Biodiversity Fund and the Mary Ross Endowment. If you would like to help support these funds for future Postdoc and CMSS travel awards, please go to:
Hoyt and Marta Whipple Biodiversity Fund
Karly Cohen (Ichthyology; Fraser Lab)
Growing defenses: insights into the cellular development of lumpsucker armor/Society of integrative and comparative biology, Seattle, WA