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 |