Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia,
West Virginia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
Student
Research Grant Recipients
SAC awards four $750 grants to support student research on
wetlands within the Chapter's boundaries. Applicants must
follow the rules and procedures of the
SWS Student Grant Program (including submission
deadlines), with a few modifications specific to the SAC
Student Research Grants.
Dena
Clink - Exploring the effects of phosphorus enrichment on
periphyton pigment signatures using high performance
liquid chromatography (HPLC)
Mark
Galatowitsch - Mechanisms driving mayfly movements between
river channels and floodplain wetlands
Jeffrey Feaga - A comparison of soil physiochemical
properties in geographically distant bog turtle occupied
wetlands
Brian
Greene - Patterns of Privet: human land use and invasive
species in Piedmont floodplain forests of South Carolina
2007
Grant Recipients:
Azure
E. Bevington, Institute of Marine Science at The College
of William and Mary - The influence of environmental
factors and nutrient availability on Typha spp.
dominance in created wetlands
Pamela
Marsh, University of South Carolina - Tracing sea level
variation using a palynomorphic fingerprint to identify
former Juncus roemerianus locations in cores
Thomas
J Mozdzer, University of Virginia - Latitudinal variation
in the availability and utilization of dissolved organic
nitrogen by the smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora
2006Grant
Recipients:
Julie
DeMeester, Duke University - An invasive species,
Microstegium vimineum, in Southeastern wetlands: the
role of nitrogen promoting invasion and subsequent changes
to the nitrogen cycle with invasive establishment
Dawn
Reinhold, Georgia Institute of Technology - Effects of
plant activity on uptake of persistent organic pollutants
by the wetland plant Lemna minor
Lucero
Sevillano, University of Miami - The effects of two
biocontrol agents on the population dynamics and rate of
spread of the Floridian invasive tree Melaleuca
quinquenervia
Alani
Taylor, University of Georgia - How does invertebrate
function vary among wetland types?
