Cave Conservancy Foundation

Awarded Grants

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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
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Last Updated on 10/02/2011 Various years are missing