Conservation & Ecological RestorationKate Abbott
2022 The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
Resilient River Restoration: Small Dam Removal as a Tool to Enhance Ecological and Community Resilience
Abbott’s project will quantify ecological responses to small dam removals across Massachusetts, including water quality, macroinvertebrates, and fish. Abbott will also evaluate the potential for dam removal to enhance both ecological and socioeconomic resilience to climate change. By incorporating stakeholder perspectives and socioeconomic metrics through surveys of practitioners, Abbott seeks to understand how this restoration approach may be used to enhance ecological and community resilience to climate change.
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
The Garden Club of America (the GCA) offers an annual Fellowship in Ecological Restoration. Established in 2000 with funds from the John B. Young Charitable Trust as well as GCA members and clubs, the fellowship’s goal is to support research that will advance knowledge and increase the number of scientists in the important field of ecological restoration, the active healing of the land. The $8,000 grant is awarded annually to exceptional graduate students to support specialized study in ecological restoration at an accredited U.S. university. Preference will be given to projects that include field research conducted in the United States. A panel of experts associated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the GCA Scholarship Committee.
For the purposes of this scholarship, The Garden Club of America agrees to the definition of ecological restoration as stated by the Society of Ecological Restoration (SER).
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