Grants and Scholarships

A. Photography Scholarships:

2009

Bronczek Fund for Excellence Award, Auburn University, toward materials for the Decatur, Illinois and exhibition of Civil Twilight

2008

Summer Work Grant from the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, for continued fieldwork on Civil Twilight

Bronczek Fund for Excellence Award, Auburn University, for lab materials

2001 – 2002

Outdoor Writers Association of America, Graduate Scholarship Recipient, issued to support and explore issues surrounding fabricated landscapes, how we impact them and in turn are impacted by their own natural evolution

B. Biological Research Grants:

1993

Inland Bird Banders Association, Independent Research Grant

Maumee Valley Audubon Society, Independent Research Grant

Black Swamp Bird Observatory, Independent Research Grant

1992

Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Non-game Wildlife Grant, issued to evaluate the efficacy of the U.S. Wetland Breeding Bird Survey in restored, Midwestern hemimarsh. Research summation lead to substantial alterations in data-gathering parameters and improvements in wetland research methods employed throughout the Midwest