Awarded Grants
| Year | Name | Degree | Institution | Topic |
| 1997 | MaryLynn Musgrove | Ph.D. | University of Texas | High-resolution Temporal Variations in Groundwater Chemistry: Tracing the Links between Climate and Hydrology in a Karst System |
| 1998 | G.O. Graening | Ph.D. | University of Arkansas | Trophic Dynamics of an Ozark Cave Stream Ecosystem |
| 1999 | Greg Springer | Ph.D. | Colorado State University | Quantitative Modeling of Stream Flow Hydrology and Energy Expenditure within a Karst Stream |
| 2000 | Gregory Stock | Ph.D. | University of California, Santa Cruz | Records of River Incision and Climate Change from Cave in the Sierra Nevada, California |
| 2001 | David A. Shank | M.S. | University of Akron | Aquifer Development and Paleohydrology of the Scott Hollow Drainage Basin, Southeast West Virginia |
| 2001 | Megan L. Porter | Ph.D. | Brigham Young University | Cave Organisms and the Evolution of Visiual Pigments: Mysid Shrimp as Model Organisms |
| 2002 | Darcy Gibbons | M.S. | Texas A&M University | GIS and Bermuda Cave Conservation |
| 2002 | Karen E. Samonds | Ph.D. | State University of New York--Stony Brook | The Origin and Evolution of Extant Malagasy Bats: Implications of New Late Pleistocene Fossils for Reconstructing Madagascar's Biogeographic History |
| 2003 | Michael P. Venarsky | M.S. | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | The Lifespan, Reproductive Timing, and Populations Genetics of the endangered Illinois Cave Amphipod, Gammarus acherondytes (Gammaridae) |
| 2003 | Holley Moytes | Ph.D. | State University of New York--Buffalo | Caves and Collapse: Correlating the Paleoenvironment with Human Action |
| 2005 | Jennifer E. Buhay | Ph.D. | Brigham Young University | Evolutionary History and Comtemporary Gene Flow of Cave Crayfishes |
| 2007 | Robert F. Hegemann | Undergraduate | Pennsylvania State University | Microbial Influence on Carbonate Dissolution in Stratified Water in the Frasassi Cave System, Italy |
| 2007 | Benjamin T. Hutchins | Master of Science | American University | Determination of Genetic Divergence Among Populations of the Madison Cave Isopod Use (i)Antrolana Lira |
| 2006 | Benjamin Schwartz | Ph.D. | VPI & SU | A Multi-Method Approach To Characterizing Sinkhole Hydrogeology and Recharge Mechanisms in Agricultural Settings |
| 2007 | Monica Moya | Undergraduate | xxxxxxxx | Microbial communities associated with ferromanganese deposits of Spider & Lechuguillla Caves, Carlsbad, New Mexico. |
| 2008 | Justin Boyles | Ph D | xxxxx | The ecology, physiology, and conservation of cavernicolous bats in the eastern United States. |
| 2008 | Shahan Derkarabetian | MS | xxxxxxx | Systematics of the subfamily Schlerobuninae, with an assessment of troglomorphic evolution within Cyptobunus (Opiliones, Laniatores |
| 2009 | Aurel Persoice | Ph D | xxxxxxx | Obtain a high-resolution (decadal or better) record of past climatic variability in East-Central Europe for the last ~10,000 years, using oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope composition in perennial ice deposits in caves as proxies for air temperature. |
| 2009 | Brock Huntsman | MS | xxxxxxxxxxxxx | The Effects of Energy-Limited Ecosystems on a Top Ecological Predator. |
| 2009 | Kaitlin Esson | Undergraduate | xxxxxxxxxxxx | What drives shrimp size and community structure in karst springs. |
| 2011 | Lory Henderson | Undergraduate | University of New Mexico | Hidden treasure lies beneath the Earth's surface: Do nutrient availability and human impact correlate to antibiotic production in cave bacteria? $5,000 |
| 2011 | Cameron T. Craig | M.S. | University of Alabama | Investigating Limiting Factors in Surface vs. Subterranean Systems: A Threshold Elemental Ratio Approach $5,000 |
| 2011 | Katrina Koski | Ph.D. | New Mexico Tech | Hyporheic Zone Exchange in Phreatic Karst Conduits and Contaminant Implications $15,000 |