Awards
Student Grants
Applications are open!
2025 MWPARC Travel Grant:
Fueling Student Field Experiences
Applications are due to parcmidwest [at] gmail.com by 14 April 2025.
How do these grants help students?
You can read reports from grant awardees from previous years below!
2024 Travel Grant Recipients
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2024 Recipient: Kayla Coggins
Click here to read about Kayla's work in snake ecology in the Midwest.
Image description: An Eastern Foxsnake resting in the grass.
2024 Recipient: Kevin Green
Click here to read about Kevin's research with Wall Lizards in Ohio.
Image description: An invasive Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).
2024 Recipient: Alyssa Roberts
Click here to learn about Alyssa's efforts to monitor Four-toed Salamanders in Minnesota using eDNA.
Image description: Alyssa filters water samples for environmental DNA while in the field.
2024 Recipient: Grace Allen
Click here to hear about Grace's research with Blanding's Turtles in Missouri.
Image description: A Blanding's Turtle with a transmitter attached to its carapace.
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2024 Recipient: Luke Tonsfeldt
Click here to learn about Luke's efforts to survey for invasive herps using eDNA.
Image description: A Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) and a Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) bask on a log.
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2024 Recipient: Kerri Beers
Click here to hear about Kerri's work with ranid frogs and chytrid in Minnesota.
Image description: Kerri and a team of collaborators swab frogs for chytrid fungi.
2023 Travel Grant Recipients
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2023 Recipient: Benjamin Genter
Click here to read about Benjamin's work with Kirtland's Snakes (Clonophis kirtlandii) in central and northern Indiana.
Image description: A Kirtland's Snake (provided by Benjamin)
2023 Recipient: Caley Johnson
Click here to read about Caley's work with spotted turtles in Northern Michigan.
Image description: A Spotted Turtle (provided by Caley)
2023 Recipient: Shania Burkhead
Click here to read about Shania's work with salamanders and habitat drying events.
Image description: An ambystomatid salamander from their mesocosms (provided by Caley)
2022 Travel Grant Recipients
2022 Recipient: Samantha Skerlec
Click here to read about Samantha's work with wetland drying and amphibians.
2022 Recipient: Stephanie Bristow
Click here to read about Stephanie's work with phenotypic plasticity in amphibians.
2021 Travel Grant Recipients
2021 Recipient: Katherine Brandewie
Click here to read about Katie's work with turtle communities in a large urban wetland complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Note: Details regarding field sites have been removed to protect those populations of amphibians and reptiles.