Awarded Fellowships
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 | Matthew C. Hazelton | Undergraduate | Wittenberg University | Impacts of coliform bacteria and limestone sediment contamination in Pless Cave, Lawrence County, Indiana |
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 |
2004 | Steven M. Thomas | Undergraduate | San Diego State University | Preliminary report of the utility of mitochondrial DNA sequence markers in distinguishing Texas cave Texella species. |
2005 | Jennifer E. Buhay | Ph.D. | Brigham Young University | Evolutionary History and Comtemporary Gene Flow of Cave Crayfishes |
2006 | Benjamin Schwartz | Ph.D. | VPI & SU | A Multi-Method Approach To Characterizing Sinkhole Hydrogeology and Recharge Mechanisms in Agricultural Settings |
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 | M.S. | American University | Determination of Genetic Divergence Among Populations of the Madison Cave Isopod Use (i)Antrolana Lira |
2007 | Matthew Garcia | Undergraduate | University of New Mexico | What controls species diversity of lava tube microbial communities? |
2007 | Monica Moya | Undergraduate | University of New Mexico | 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 | Noah McDougall | Undergraduate | xxxxx | To influence future land use decisions and improve pollution prevention through a characterization of the hydrogeology of Dry Valley. |
2008 | Shahan Derkarabetian | M.S. | xxxxx | Systematics of the subfamily Schlerobuninae, with an assessment of troglomorphic evolution within Cyptobunus (Opiliones, Laniatores |
2009 | Aurel Persoiu | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, US | 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 | M.S. | xxxxx | The Effects of Energy-Limited Ecosystems on a Top Ecological Predator. |
2009 | Kaitlin Esson | Undergraduate | American University | What drives shrimp size and community structure in karst springs. |
2010 | No Scholarships Awarded. | |||
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 |
2012 | Amelia Weiss | Undergraduate | University of California, Berkeley | Abiotic influences on the distirbutions of tropical cavernicoles |
2012 | Tracy Audisio | M.S. | San Francisco State University | Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the cavernicolous spider genus Yorima |
2012 | Terri Brown | Ph.D. | University of Tennessee | Characteristics and dynamics of dissolved organic carbon in caves, especially with respect to chemoautotrophy, heretofore thought to be limited to a very few caves. |
2013 | Linnea Carver | Undergraduate | University of the South, Sewanee | Reproduction, feeding and diversity of cave spiders in the Southern Appalachians. |
2013 | Flora Sperberg | M.S. | University of Puerto Rico | Reconstructing a record of hydroclimate variability over the last two millennia using speleothems collected from Puerto Rico and Venezuela. |
2013 | Shahan Derkarabetian | Ph.D. | San Diego State University | Explore the genetic processes underlying cave adaptation. |
2014 | Ben Freidel | M.S. | American University | Cryptic Variation in the Morphological Evolution of Eye Loss in Subterranean Amphipods. |
2014 | Justina Dacey | M.S. | University of Jacksonville | Stable isotopes and ion concentrations as tracers for groundwater-surface water interactions on the the St. Johns River. |
2014 | Kathleen Brannen | Ph.D. | University of Tennessee | Comparative metagenomics of microbial succession reveals complex dissolvedd organic matter cycling in an epigenic cave stream |
2015 | Alison DeVivero | Undergraduate | Jacksonville University (Department of Biology and Marine Science) | “Geochemical Investigation of Discharging Submarine Springs and Source Waters San Salvador, Bahamas” |
2015 | Allan Cabrero | M.S. | San Diego State University (Department of Biology) | “Lava tube landscape genomics of the cave harvestmen Speleonychia sengeri (Opiliones, Briggsidae)” |
2015 | Charles D.R. Stephen | Ph.D. | Auburn University (Department of Biological Sciences) | “A revision of two problematic pseudoscorpion clades and an exploratory transcriptomic approach to examining troglomorphic evolution in pseudoscorpions” |
2016 | Abigail Harmon | Undergraduate | University of Tennessee – Knoxville | “ Evaluating the impact of minor anthropogenic activites in a seemingly pristine karst watershed, Carter Caves State Resort Park, Kentucky” |
2016 | Kelsey Budahn | M.S. | University of Akron (Department of Geology) | “Condensation Corrosion Processes, Products, and Influence on Cave Morphologies in the Iberian Chain, Spain” |
2016 | David Brankovits | Ph.D. | Texas A&M at Galveston (Marine Biology Interdisciplinary Program | “A Biogeochemical Investigation of the Carbon Cycling and Methane Dynamics in an Anchialine Cave Ecosystem in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico” Nature Communications 28 November 2017 |
2017 | Victoria E. Frazier |
Undergraduate | University of South Florida | “Microbial-Driven Limestone Dissolution in a Coastal Karst System” |
2017 | Elizabeth Willenbrink | M.S. | Western Kentucky University (Department of Geology) | “Policy Communication and the Impact of Agricultural Communities on Karst Landscapes: A Case Study in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam” |
2017 | Aron Katz | Ph.D. | University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (Department of Entomology) | “Cave Springtrail Phylogeography Across the Mississippi River Valley" |
2018 | Meredith Snyder | Undergraduate | University of South Florida (Department of Cell, Molecular Biology & Microbiology) | “Characterization and Analysis of the Crab Creek Cave Biofilm Community” |
2018 | Chelsey Kipper | M.S. | Western Kentucky University (Department of Geography and Geology) | “A geochemical comparison of two telogenetic karst springs during reverse flow, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky” |
2018 | Olivia Hershey | Ph.D. | University of Akron (Department of Integrated Bioscience) | "Ultra-small cells in the Wind Cave lakes: A metagenomic investigation of the microbial community within a karst aquifer" |
2019 | Levi Trumbore | Undergraduate | University of the South (Department of Biology) | “Cave Biodiversity of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park” |
2019 | Anna Harris | M.S. | Western Kentucky University (Department of Geography and Geology) | “Quantifying the impacts of timber harvest on karst systems in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska” |
2019 | Lauren Ballou | Ph.D. | Texas A&M-Galveston (Department of Marine Biology) | “Assessing the biogeographic distribution of anchialine cave fauna using Typhlatya (Crustacea: Atyidae) and Remipedia (Crustacea) as model taxa” |