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2012 Seana Kasey Walsh School: University of Hawaii at Manoa Field of study: Masters Candidate, will examine the floral biology and breeding systems of an endangered endemic Hawaiian plant. |
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2012 Katherine Ellen Jumper School: College of Atlantic Field of study: A first-year graduate student in fungal plant ecology at the College of the Atlantic, Maine, will research fungi on serpentine sites to determine whether there are different species of mushrooms between serpentine and granite-based soils in two different quarries on the Deer Isles of Maine. |
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2012 Monique Marie Picon School: University of California Field of study: A senior at the University of California, Berkeley, will be a Summer Assistant to a Berkeley Tropical Botanist and will be assisting with tropical tree identification, pollination experiments and mapping in both white sand and clay soil forests in the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve, Peru. Project location: Peru |
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2011 Margraret Mansfield School: College of the Altantic-Human Ecology B.A. Field of study: "She plans to study diversity and soil tissue relations of plants at Callahan Mine in Brooksville, Maine. The survey includes a vascular plant survey." |
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2011 Jillian Gall School: College of the Atlantic Field of study: "A sophomore at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her program includes the study of geobotany of Deer Isle, plant-insect relations and ecosystem health." |
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2011 Elisa Meyer School: Augustana College Field of study: "Senior at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Her research will include field and laboratory identification of plants common to the upper Mississippi, with an emphasis on Illinois." |
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2011 Cassandra Coleman School: University of Alabama Field of study: A candidate for a Masters degree at the University of Alabama, will be participating in field collection, identification, herbarium work and lab work in Ecuador and Alabama. Project location: Ecuador |
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2010 Diana DelleChiaie School: Colby College - B.A. Biology: Neusoscience and Government Field of study: "Will pursue a five-month internship through the Conservation and Land Management Program, assisting professional staff at the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and/or The U.S. Forest Service, in conducting field work." Project location: "Lakewood, Colorado" |
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2010 Luka Negoita School: College of the Atlantic - Junior Field of study: Is focusing on field botany and ecology. Luka's summer program will be the study of vascular flora of Little Duck Island Project location: Maine |
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2009 Jesse Hersh School: Southern Oregon University Master's Candidate in Environmental Education/Botany University of California - Santa Barbara B.A. Physical Anthropology Field of study: "Field Botany/Landscape Interpretation Will attend a series of lectures and field trips entitled "National landscape Interpretation in Idaho, Oregon and California."" Project location: "Idaho, Oregon, California" |
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2009 Ashley DuVal School: Universityof California-Berkeley B.S. 2006 College of Natural Resources Yale School of Forestry Environmental Studies; Master's Candidate 2010 Field of study: Economic Botany Will study efforts to domesticate and improve production of the ecai fruit in Brazil through genetics and a rural extension program. |
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2008 Alicia Smith School: North Carolina State University B.S. in Progress Field of study: "Forest Ecology Will intern at the Powdermill Natural Reserve perfoming field work, collecting vegetation data and representative photos on the vegetation." Project location: "Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Rector, PA" |
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2008 Zachary Brym School: University of Michigan Senior Field of study: "Botany, Theoretical Ecology Functional Trait Analysis of Invasive Autumn Olive" Project location: University of Michigan's ES George Preserve |
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2008 Benjamin Plourde School: University of Connecticut Junior - B.S. in Progress in Biological Science and Physics Field of study: Will study the tropical rainforests. His project is entitled "Life History and Wood Specific Gravity of Secondary Forest Trees." Project location: La Selva Biological Station in Cost Rica. |
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2008 Amanda Wendt School: The Evergreen State College B.S. Kirkwood Community College A.A. University of Connecticut Ph.D Field of study: Tropical Forest Ecology Will attend a summer course in Tropical Plant Systemics offered by the Org for Tropical Studies & taught in Costa Rica. Will focus on remnant tree community effects on tent-rooting fruit bats in secondary tropical forests. Project location: Northeastern Costa Rica |
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2007 Kevi Mace School: Wesleyan University Senior Field of study: "Will participate in the 2007 Bio Blitz. She will sort, edentify and catalogue plants with university botantiists to produce a final report." Project location: "Middletown, CT" |
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2006 Lara Reynolds School: University of Hawaii - Honolulu Senior Field of study: Botany Will conduct a botanical inventory and survey for rare and endangered plants on the Kipapa Trail in the O'ahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge. Project location: "O'ahu, Hawaii" |
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2005 Teague Embrey School: "Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Graduate 2006" Field of study: "Botany Will summer with Dr. David Neill from Missouri Botanical Garden and the National Herbarium of Quito, Ecuador botanizing in the Cordillera del Condor region." Project location: "Cordillera del Condor region of Quito, Ecuador " |
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2004 Stephen Stern School: University of North Carolina - Ashville 2005 Field of study: 2003: Will identify key areas of botanical significance to determine which pristine areas are key to save from logging or farming. 2004: Will return to Guyana to collect & doc. the var. flora & bring back to the Smithsonian Herb. Collect. Project location: Guyana |
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2004 Marie Terlizzi School: Syracuse University Graduate program in conservation biology with a plant emphasis Field of study: Field Botany Will do a volunteer internship with the Bergen Swamp Preservation Society to conduct a survey for rare plant species at the society's Zurich Bog preserve. Project location: "Wayne County, NY" |
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2003 Hilary Parkinson School: "Boise State university, Boise, ID Junior" Field of study: Project: Work at Bureau of land management native plant gardens doing field work monitoring rare plant species at Snake River Basin and surrounding vicinities in Idaho. Project location: Idaho |
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2003 Olin Taylor School: Appalachian State University Master's Candidate Field of study: "Will work near the Indian Reservation in Mojave Desert and National Artic Wildlife Refuge, creating plant inventories and seed sources to bring back to growers and scientists." |
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2002 Ana Fishbein School: Washington University in St. Louis Field of study: "Plans to participate in field program to collect and identify Rosa species native to the Ozarks and surrounding region, cataloguing species, habitat diversity, other ecological & vegetative features." Project location: "St. Louis, MO" |
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2002 Rachel Mukai School: "Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA" Field of study: Environmental Biology Taking courses in field botany and forest ecology at Au Sable Institute. Emphasis upon on-site examination of plants. Project location: Michigan |
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2001 Lisa Kruse School: University of Georgia Department of Botany graduate student Field of study: "Botany Study: The first comprehensive floristic survey of the Upper Etowah Basin in North Georgia, a rapidly urbanizing area." Project location: "Athens, GA" |
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2001 Khara Grieger School: Michigan State University MS Field of study: Botany (Field Ecology) Study: Investigate the Lake Michigan dune habitats most vulnerable to the commonly planted landscape species of invasive Pinus nigra (Austrian pine). |
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