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COA GRANTS TO MALACOLOGY
Grantees
2006
-- $14,456.53
- Auld, Josh
R.; $1,492.00; University of Pittsburgh, PA; The density-dependent
and density-independent effects of predators on the mating
system of the hermaphroditic freshwater snail Physia acuta
- Bennet, Kyle; $1,490.00;
Rutgers University, Hillsborough, NJ;Phenotypica plasticity
and multiple cryptic species in discretely different habitats
of the scorched mussel, Brachidontes exutusspecies complex
in the Florida Keys
- Crowley, Louise*; $1,168.00;
American Mus. of Natural History, New York, NY; Phylogeny
and diversification of the bivalve order Arcoida Stoliczka,
1871 (Pteriormorphia: Mollusca)
- Dennis, Alice; $1,500.00;
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; Cryptic speciation
and freezing tolerance in Melampus bidentatus(Pulmonata: Elobiidae)
- Hall, Kevin T.; $1,475.00;
The University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI; Integrating empyrical
observation and generic inference to guide translocation:
Hawaii's endangered Achatinella tree snails as a case study
- Harnik, Paul; $1,500.00;
University of Chicago, IL; Estimating molluscan species rarity
in the fossil record
- Hayes, David M.; $1,500.00;
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR; Molecular phylogenetics
of Wlimia potosiensis (Caenogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)
- Hochberg, Rick; $1,471.00;
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; The nervous and muscular
systems of interstitial solenogastres: functional and phylogenetic
significance
- Meyer, Wallace M.; $1,500.00;
The University of Hawaii at Moana, HI; Life histories, population
densities and habitat preferences of native Hawaiian succineid
snails Naturales
- Smith, Ursula; $1,360.53;
Palentological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY; Evolutionary
dynamics of Neogene turritelline gastropods in New Zealand:
an integrated approach
*Walter
Sage Memorial Grant Award: Louise Crowley
Note: Future additional
named grants may be funded by income from the Paul & Heather
Johnson Fund and the Clench/Turner Fund
2005
-- $15,868.00
2004 -- $14,583.00
The Grants Committee
for 2004 consists of Dr. Henry Chaney (Santa Barbara Museum
of Natural History), Dr. José Leal (Bailey-Matthews Shell
Museum) and Dr. Gary Rosenberg (The Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia), with Dr. Leal as chair. This year, we received
27grant applications requesting a total of $35,074.00 Of the
27applications, 6 came from professionals and 21 came from students.
The eleven recommended proposals for funding came to a total
of $14,583.00, subsequently approved by the COA Board of Directors.
The Grant Committee nominated the proposal by Eric D. Crandall,
a Boston University Marine Program student, for the Walter Sage
Award. This decision was based on the project's originality,
wide-ranging reach of the its potential results, and the use
of modern techniques of DNA sequencing to answer long-standing
questions in the fields of marine ecology and biogeography.
- Crandall,
Eric D., $1,470, Boston University Marine Program, How do
"stepping-stones" of available habitat affect genetic
connectivity in neritid snails?
- Dietl, Gregory P., $1,100,
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Evolution of Strombus
alatus species complex following a post-Pliocene productivity
decline in Florida.
- Faucci, Anuschka, $1,025,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, The origin of Hawaiian vermetids.
- Hayes, Kenneth, $1,500, University
of Hawaii at Manoa, Systematics, Phylogeography and evolution
of apple snails (Pomacea spp,)
- Holland, Brenden, $1,500,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Biogeography of a widely distributed
land snail famil: Coloniozation pathways, evolutionary patterns
and systematics of Pacific Island Succineidae.
- Hoverman, Jason, $1,300 University
of Pittsburgh, The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in freshwater
snails.
- Li, Wei, $1,317, Tufts University,
Detecting inbreeding in marine slippershell snails Crepidula
fornicata and Crepidula convexa.
- Przeslawski, Rachel, $1,000,
Flinders University of S. Australia, The role of marine chemical
sunscreens in encapsulated molluscan development.
- Spooner, Daniel, $1,500, The
University of Oklahoma, An integrative approach to understanding
freshwater mussel (Family: Unionidae) community structure:
linking biodiversity, environmental context and physiology.
- Untersee, Steve, $1,400, Tufts
University, Differences in copper toxicity in 2 closely related
species of marine gastropod with different modes of reproduction.
- Whalen, Kristen, $1,476, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Detoxification and transport
of dietary metabolites in marine mollusks.
2003
-- $11,000
The grants committee for 2003 consisted of Dr. Gary Rosenberg
(Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia), Dr. Henry Chaney
(Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History) and Dr. José
Leal (Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum) with Rosenberg as chair.
In 2003 we received 22 grant proposals requesting a total of
$32,409 in support, similar to last year, with 21 grant proposals
requesting a total of $30,278, but a decrease relative to 28
grant proposals requesting$35,070 in 2001. Eighteen of the applicants
are graduate students, and five are professional biologists
with master’s degrees. Eight of the proposals were international:
4 from Argentina, 2 from Colombia, 1 from Cuba and 1 from Mexico.
The committee members independently ranked proposals with scores
from "1" (best) to "5" (worst). This year,
we recommend nine proposals for funding, all of those that received
scores averaging better than 2.3. The total requested in these
nine proposals is $12,295, but after judicious trimming of budgets,
we recommend funding totalling $11,000. This is $1000 more than
originally budgeted, but will allow us to fund all of the most
highly regarded proposals without having to make artificial
distinctions. We recommend the proposal by Lisa Kirkendale of
the evolution of cockles for the Walter Sage Award.
One issue has been raised by
a COA member: that the current rules make grants available only
to citizens and permanent residents of the Americas or to students
attending graduate school in the United States. This makes some
COA members ineligible for grants. We propose making all COA
members eligible.
- Bass, Anna L., $1,200 University
of South Florida, FL Systematics and evolution of the family
Plakobranchidae (Sacoglossa, Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda,
Mollusca)
- Bigatti, Gregorio, $1,350
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Reproductive and biological
aspects of the ziczac volutid Odontocymbiola magellanica (Gmelin,
1791) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Patagonia
- Boyle, Elizabeth, $1,250 University
of Massachusetts, MA Colonization and radiation in the deep-sea
protobranch subfamily Ledellinae
- Crowley, Louise, $1,000 City
University of New York, NY Phylogeny and historical biogeography
of the bivalve order Arcoida
- Goewert, Ann E., $1,400 Iowa
State University, IA Sclerochronology of freshwater mussels
(Unionidae): implications for population dynamics, conservation
biology and paleoclimate reconstruction
- Kirkendale, Lisa, $1,300 University
of Florida, FL Windows of opportunity: molecular phylogenetics
and character trait evolution in the cardiid subfamily Fraginae
- Strauss, Josiah, $1,500 Florida
Atlantic University, FL Comparison of growth rates and temperatures
of growth of Pleistocene and living gastropod Pleuroploca
gigantea from southern Florida, using 18O stable isotopes
- Tëmkin, Ilya, $1,000
New York University, NY Systematics and phylogeny of the pearl
oysters (Pteriidae)
- Wyeth, Russell, $1,000 University
of Washington, WA Field behavior of the nudibranch Tritonia
diomedea
2002
-- $10,300.00
The grants committee for 2002 consisted of Dr. Gary Rosenberg,
Dr. Daniel Graf and Mr. Paul Callomon, with Rosenberg as chair.
In 2002 we received 21 grant proposals requesting a total of
$30,278 in support, a decrease compared to 28 grant proposals
requesting a total of $35,070 in 2001. The decrease may be related
to reluctance to travel following September 11. Sixteen of the
applicants are graduate students, and five are post-doctoral
students or professionals. Three of the proposals were international,
two from Canada and one from Argentina.
Each committee member ranks proposals from "1" (best)
to "3"(worst). This year, we have recommended nine
proposals for funding, all of those that received scores averaging
better than 1.5. The total recommended funding is $10,300. We
recommend the proposal by Christine Parent on Galapagos land
snails for the Walter Sage Award, because of its overall excellence.
- Dr. John A. Cigliano, Cedar
Crest College, PA, $1,300 Habitat and population survey of
Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) in two proposed marine replenishment
zones of Andros Island, the Bahamas.
- Elizabeth Davis, University
of Kansas, KS, $1,000 Trail following by conspecifics in freshwater
and terrestrial snails.
- Joanne R. Dougherty, Villanova
University, PA, $1,200 The association of the coquina clam
Donax variabilis and the hydroid Lovenella gracilis.
- Anuschka Faucci, University
of Hawaii, HI, $900 Genetic population structure in relation
to dispersal potential in Hawaiian vermetids.
- Melissa A. Frey, University
of California, Davis, CA, $1,000 The geography and ecology
of speciation in a group of marine snails (Nerita spp.).
- Dr. Brenden S. Holland, University
of Hawaii, HI, $1,200 Use of genetic tools in the efforts
to save vanishing Hawaiian tree snails.
- Isabella Kappner, Field Museum
of Natural History, IL, $1,300 Fieldwork in the Cape Verde
Island: Phylogenetic, biogeographic and monographic studies
of the bivalve subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815.
- Christine Parent, Simon Fraser
University, BC, Canada, $1,000 Species radiation on islands:
the bulimulid land snails of Galápagos.
- Kathryn E. Perez, University
of Alabama, AL, $1,300 An examination of systematic relationships
within the land snail genus Praticolella (Gastropoda: Pulmonata:
Polygyridae) from the southern United.
2001
-- $10,729.00
In 2001, the COA grants committee, consisting of Dr. Henry Chaney,
Dr. G. Thomas Watters, and Dr. Gary Rosenberg, reviewed 28 grant
proposals that requested a total of $35,070 in support. All
of the applicants were graduate students. Three of the proposals
were international, all from Argentina
The committee recommended the following nine proposals for funding
with a total of $10,729.00. The proposal by Audrey Aronowsky
on naticid egg collars received the Walter Sage Award because
of its overall excellence and the likelihood that its subject
would have been of interest to Walter himself.
- Audrey Aronowsky,
University of California, Berkeley "Why do naticids use
sand in the construction of egg collars?" ~$1,000
- Christopher Block and Edward
Sobek, Texas Tech University: "Evaluation of Caracolus
caracolla as a potential ecosystem engineer in the Tabonuco
Forest of Puerto Rico." ~$1,300
- Kenneth A. Hayes, University
of South Florida: "Evolution of the ‘Corona Complex’
in the genus Melongena (Gastropoda: Melongenidae): Internal
transcribed spacer regions and microsatellite DNA." ~$1,500
- Jonathan R. Hendricks, Cornell
University, New York: "Systematic revision of the Pinecrest
Conus complex." ~$900
- James W. Kurpius, University
of California, Berkeley: "Panmixia or genetic differentiation?:
Phylogeographic patterns of a planktonic dispersing gastropod
in the Eastern Pacific." ~$1,400
- John C. Malone, University
of California, Los Angeles: "Consumer-resource interactions
of two marine, gastropod grazers." ~$800
- Jennifer M. Walker, University
of Alabama: "Phylogenetic analysis and resource recognition
in populations of Melongena corona (Gmelin) from the Alabama
and Florida Gulf Coast." ~$1,500
- Amy R. Wethington, University
of Alabama: "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of reproductive
isolation in Physa (Pulmonata: Physidae)." ~$1,000
- Diego G. Zelaya, Facultad
de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, La Plata, Argentina: "Systematics
and biogeography of southwestern Atlantic Margaritini (Gastropoda:
Trochidae)." ~$1,000
2000
-- $9,200.00
In 2000, the COA grants committee, consisting of Dr. Henry Chaney,
Dr. G. Thomas Watters, and Dr. Gary Rosenberg, reviewed 25 grant
proposals that requested a total of $28,236 in support. The
applicants included 21 graduate students, and four professional
biologists. Six proposals were international: four from Argentina,
one from Brazil, and one from Mexico.
The committee recommended the following nine proposals for funding
with a total of $9200; this recommendation was approved at the
midyear meeting of COA's board of directors. The proposal by
Rebecca Rundell on succineid snails of Hawaii received the Walter
Sage Award, because of its overall excellence.
- Dr. Colin
R. Beasley, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil: "Molluscan
diversity among coastal habitats of Northern Brazil."
$1,000
- Gregory P. Dietl, North Carolina
State University: "Evolutionary response of predators
to dangerous prey: Busyconine gastropods and their bivalve
prey." $1,500
- Erika V. Iyengar, Cornell
University: "Kleptoparasitism within the genus Trichotropis
(Gastropoda), with specific studies on the evolutionary ecology
of T. cancellata." $1,180
- Steve I. Lonhart, University
of California at Santa Cruz: "Native and invasive predator
preferences for Eastern Pacific trochids; effects of prey
biomass and caloric value." $250
- Russ Minton, University of
Alabama: "Phylogenetic revision of the pleurocerid genus
Lithasia." $500
- Ludwig Naegel, Centro Interdisciplinario
de Ciencias Marinas, Mexico: "Reproductive cycle of Plicopurpura
pansa (Gould, 1853) from Playa Cerrito, Gulf of California,
México." $920
- Rebecca M. Price, University
of Chicago: "Columellar folds as an adaptation in the
Fasciolariidae." $1,500
- Kevin J. Roe, University of
Alabama: "Phylogeny and zoogeography of the freshwater
mussel genus Ptychobranchus Simpson (Bivalvia: Unionidae)."
$850
- Rebecca J. Rundell, University
of Hawaii at Manoa: "Phylogeny and origins of diversity
in the endemic Hawaiian Succineidae." Walter Sage Memorial
Award: $1,500
1999 -- $6,500.00
The educational grants committee for 1999 consisted of Dr. Henry
Chaney, Dr. G. Thomas Watters and Dr. Gary Rosenberg. This year
29 grant proposals were received, requesting a total of $33,069
in support. By comparison, last year 28 proposals totaling $41,243
were received. The decline in funds requested was a result of
modified instructions for preparing budgets: Those applicants
applying to multiple funding sources were asked to present an
overall budget and then specify which items they wished COA
to fund. Of the 29 applicants, 24 were graduate students and
5 were professional biologists. Eight proposals were international,
with three from Canada, two each from Brazil and Mexico and
one from Germany.
A total of $6500 was awarded
to eight proposals, all by Ph.D. candidates. This year's winner
of the Walter Sage Award is Rebecca Price, with a study of the
evolution and function of columellar folds.
- Gregory S. Herbert University
of California, Davis: "Patterns of extinction selectivity,
species replacement, adaptation, and recovery in the Muricidae
(Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Late Neogene of Florida."
$400
- Matthew C. Kay University
of Oregon: "Reproduction and post-larval dynamics of
the flat abalone Haliotis walallensis, and implications for
the role of boulder fields in the early life history of abalones."
$400
- Dwayne Minton University of
Hawaii: "Effect of microhabitats on the diversity and
distribution of Caribbean littorines." $ 1,000
- Cintia Miyaji Universidade
de Sao Paulo: "Prosobranch gastropods from shelf-break
and upper continental slope off Brazilian southeastern coast."
$ 1,000
- Rebecca M. Price University
of Chicago: "Evolutionary and functional analysis of
columellar folds in the Fasciolariidae." Walter Sage
Memorial Award: $1,000
- Elizabeth K. Shea Bryn Mawr
College: "The structure and development of the proboscis
in ommastrephid squids (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae)."
$ 1,000
- Jeffrey T. Watanabe Florida
Institute of Technology: "Non-drilling oyster drills:
the growth and reproduction of Stramonita haemostoma on Florida
sabellariid worm reefs." $700
- Anthony B. Wilson Universität
Konstanz, Germany: "Evolution of Lake Tanganyika Gastropoda:
A predator/prey model of coevolution?" $ 1,000 [Note:
Mr. Wilson is a Canadian citizen and therefore is eligible
for the award.]
1998
-- $5,450.00
- Rachel Collin University of
Chicago: "Systematics, life history, evolution, and development
in Crepidula" $1,000
- Jason P. Curole University
of New Hampshire: "A test of the neutral theory: molecular
evolution of gender associated mitochondrial lineages in unionacean
bivalves" $580
- Lisa S. Gardiner University
of Georgia: "Caribbean mollusk communities of coral reef
environments: an investigation of community stability through
Pleistocene time" $1,000
- Erika Iyengar Cornell University:
"Why work when you can steal? Kleptoparasitism in a marine
snail (Trichotropis cancellata)" $840
- Steve Lonhart University of
California, Santa Cruz: "Invasion of Monterey Bay by
Kellet's Whelk: the role of coevolution and functional feeding
mode in determining invader success" $730
- Dwayne Minton University of
Hawaii: "Distribution and migration patterns of tropical
rocky shore molluscs" $300
- Fabio Moretzsohn University
of Hawaii: "Species boundaries in the Cribrarula cribraria
species complex (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae)" Walter Sage
Memorial Award: $1,000
1997 -- $5,700.00
- James E. Byers University
of California, Santa Barbara, "Toward a mechanistic understanding
of the resistance of a native snail to invasion by an exotic
competitor" $700.00.
- Matthew Campbell University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, "A new look at the
Pliocene marine molluscan faunas from the Atlantic Coastal
Plain of North America" $800.00.
- Seth J. Lambiase University
of North Carolina, "Life history strategies and population
ecology of terrestrial mollusca in southern Appalachian spruce-fir
forests" $400.00.
- Michele G. Legé University
of California, Davis, "Ecology of Maya applesnail (Pomacea
flagellata): a keystone species in marshes of northern Belize"
$650.00.
- David B. Lewis University
of Wisconsin-Madison, "A multi-scale investigation of
the roles of regional and local factors in assembling freshwater
snail communities" $450.00.
- Guido Pastorino Argentina
National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, "The
genus Trophon Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) and allied
groups from Antarctica and surrounding islands: a comparative
systematic study" Walter Sage Memorial Award: $700.00.
- Dina Proestou University of
Rhode Island, "Quantifying reproductive success and predicting
time of sex change in the slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata"
$800.00.
- Donna M. Surge University
of Arizona, "Paleoecology and geochemistry of bivalve
shells: implications for pre-disturbance environmental conditions
of three estuaries, southwestern Florida" $700.00.
- Brian T. Watson Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, "Utilization of induced infestation and genetic
techniques for the determination of host fishes for mussels:
emphasis on federally endangered species" $500.00.
1996 -- $8,900.00
- Ms. Amy R. Baco Department
of Oceanography, University of Hawaii: "Structure, succession
and phylogenetic affinities of the unusual molluscan assemblage
surrounding whale skeletons in the deep sea" $500
- Mr. Scott Bauman Marine Laboratory,
University of Guam: "Extinct and extant land snail faunas
of the southern Mariana Islands" $575.00
- Ms. Heather Bennett Department
of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: "Histology
and histochemistry of the pedal glands of North American species
of Solemya (Bivalvia: Cryptodonta)" $600.00
- Mr. Paul A. X. Bologna Marine
Environmental Consortium: "Molluscan distribution within
and among seagrass habitats" $600.00
- Mr. David C. Campbell Department
of Geology, University of North Carolina: "Radiation
and convergence in the Bivalvia: a comparison of morphological
and molecular evidence" $600.00
- Mr. Daniel Geiger University
of Southern California: "The mineralogy of abalone shells
in a total evidence cladistic analysis of the family"
$650.00
- Dr. Ross W. Gundersen and
Mr. Russell Minton Department of Biological Sciences, University
of Wisconsin-Parkside: for a study on color patterns, "Do
stripes equal spots: Puperita pupa and Puperita tristis."
Walter Sage Memorial Award: $375.00
- Ms. Lisa Hadway Pacific Biomedical
Research Center, University of Hawaii: "Inventory and
assessment of the molluscan fauna in the state of Hawai'i's
Pu'u I Umi Preserve on the Island of Hawai'i" $800.00
- Mr. Larry J. Hyde Texas A&M
University: the "Final phase of field work to complete
thesis research on molluscan distribution and ecology on Stetson
Bank, northwestern Gulf of Mexico" $750.00
- Ms. Katharina Noack Department
of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York: "Molecular
phylogenetic relationships of flabellinid nudibranchs"
$600.00
- Mr. Matthew P. Parry Department
of Oceanography, University of Hawaii: "Magnetoreception
in squid as a mechanism for orientation in the open ocean"
$700.00
- Ms. Tamara K. Ross Ecology
& Evolutionary Biology, Iowa State University: "The
genetic structure of the Iowa Pleistocene snail, Discus macclintocki"
$800.00
- Mr. Jonathon R. Stone Department
of Zoology, University of Toronto: "Evolution of Lambis
and trajectories through morphospace." $250.00
- Ms. Kelly A. West Department
of Earth and Space Science, University of California: "Morphological
and molecular diversification of the thiarid gastropod species
flock of Lake Tanganyika, Africa" $500.00
- Ms. Michelle D. White Moss
Landing Marine Laboratories: "Factors affecting the distribution
and abundance of Nuttalina spp. along the coast of Central
California" $600.00
1995 -- $6,000.00
- Richard Jones Florida Institute
of Technology, Department of Biology: Analysis of Bological
and Physical Features Associated with the Distribution of
Queen Conch, Strombus gigas, Nursery Habitats $600.00
- Dr. Jose H. Leal Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami:
Mollusks in the Deepest Part of the Atlantic Ocean; Hadal
Cocculiniform Limpets (Gastropoda: Cocculinoidea) from the
Northern Boundary of the Caribbean Plate $1,000.00
- Christopher Meyer University
of California Department of Integrative Biology: Manipulating
Shell Colors and Melanin in Cowries $500.00
- Kevin J. Roe Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
Genetic Study of the Freshwater Mussels Potamilus and Lastena
$400.00
- Matthew Tieger Indiana University
of Pennsylvania Biology Department: Growth in Chaetopleura
apiculata $400.00
- Laura A. Brink Oregon Institute
of Marine Biology: Cross-Shelf Dispersal of Larval Mollusks
off the Inner Shelf of the North Carolina Coast $400.00
- Thomas F. Duda Jr. Kewalo
Marine Laboratory (Honolulu): Phylogeny and Conotoxin Evolution
of Conus $300.00
- Daniel L. Graf Northeastern
University Department of Biology: Re-evaluation of the Fusconaia
flava Complex $900.00
- Scott E. Graham Western Washington
University Department of Geology: Predation by Naticids of
the Miocene of Maryland $500.00
- Dr. Janice Voltzow University
of Puerto Rico Department of Biology: Torsion in Archaeogastropods
$600.00
- Dr. G. Thomas Watters The
Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity: Review
of Pre-Pleistocene North American Unionaceans $400.00
1994 -- $6,000.00
- David J. Brown Duke University
Marine Laboratory: The Effects of Herbicides on Mercenaria
Gonadal Tumors $750.00
- Marian E. Havlik Malacological
Consultants, La Crosse, WI: Wolf River Unionid Translocation
Survey $600.00
- Elizabeth L. Raiser Florida
Museum of Natural History: Electrophoretic Study of Elimia
(Goniobasis) in Florida $750.00
- Paul J. Morris Paleontological
Research Institution, Ithaca, NY: Field work on the Alabama
Sabinian Stage $610.00
- James W. Fatherree University
of South Florida: Field work on Late Cretaceous Seasonality
$1,000.00
- Jeff Goddard Oregon Institute
of Marine Biology: Survey of Opisthobranchs of Northern Oregon
$370.00
- Sandra A. Alvarado Texas A
& M in Corpus Christi: Ecological Study of Mollusks of
the Mexico Reef Area $1,000.00
- Frank R. Thomas University
of Hawaii: Lab work on the Ethnoarchaeology of Kiribati, Gilbert
Islands $800.00
- Richard L. Squires California
State University, Northridge: Field Work on Eocene Fossils
of the Doty Hills, Washington $120.00
1993 -- $6,000.00
- Frank Thomas University of
Hawaii Department of Anthropology: Optimal Foraging and Conservation:
Ethnoarchaeology of Molluscan Ecology and Human Exploitation
on Abemama Atoll, Kiribati, Gilbert Islands $500.00
- Dr. Richard A. Tankersley
Gonzaga University Department of Biology, Spokane, WA: Endoscopic
Analysis of the Ctenidia and Suspension Feeding Dynamics of
Three Northwest American Freshwater Bivalves $1,500.00
- Dr. John Stimson (for Greta
Abey and Deborah Gochfeld) University of Hawaii Department
of Biology: Predators as Potential Factors Limiting Populations
of the Coral-Eating Nudibranch Phestilla sibogae $500.00
- Dr. Thomas J. DeVries Burton,
Washington: Neogene Mollusks of the Peruvian Province: The
Chilean Connection $1,000.00
- David H. Bachus Seattle, Washington:
"The Paleoecology of Buchia (Pectinacea) $750.00
- Bruce S. Lieberman American
Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrates, New
York: The Effects of Environmental and Geographic Changes
on Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Patterns in Molluscan Taxa
$750.00
- Dr. Melbourne R. Carriker
University of Delaware: Biology of the Hard Clam, Mercenaria
mercenaria $500.00
- Margaret Harvey Tallahassee,
Florida: Reproductive System of the Bivalve, Carditamera floridana
$500,00
1992 -- $5,000.00
- Ami E. Wilbur University of
Delaware College of Marine Studies: Studies in DNA Types in
the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians $500.00
- Katy Metzner-Roop Grice Marine
Biological Laboratory, Charleston, SC: Gene Flow in the Hard
Shell Clam, Mercenaria $500.00
- Dr. Mark E. Gordon Tennessee
Technological University Fisheries Research Unit: Survey of
Disappearing Mollusks of the Upper Tennessee River $1,000.00
- Dr. Charles N. D'Asaro University
of West Florida Department of Biology: Gunnar Thorson's Egg
Capsule Project $1,000.00
- Sharon Kobayashi University
of Hawaii Zoology Department: Fecundity Studies in Hawaiian
Tree Snails, Achatinellidae $500.00
- Dr. Matthew J. James Sonoma
State University (CA) Department of Geology: Galapagos Pleistocene
Mollusks $750.00
- Dr. Jose H. Leal Rosenstiel
School of Marine Sciences, University of Miami: Taxonomy of
Brazilian Volutidae $750.00
1991 -- $5,010.00
- Dr. Timothy McClanahan Florida
Institute of Technology Department of Biological Sciences:
for research on Florida Keys Gastropods $750.00
- Timothy G. Standish George
Mason University Department of Biology: for research on Donax
clams $750.00
- Steven A. Osborn Moss Landing
Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA for research on cephalopod
beaks $500.00
- Dr. Richard L. Squires California
State University, Northridge, Department of Geological Sciences:
The Fossil Mollusks of Baja California $360.00
- Guido Pastorino of Argentina:
for study of Predatory Behavior in Trophon $750.00
- Fabio H.A. Costa of Brazil:
for work on the Conus jaspideus complex $750.00
- Lisa H. Janke Columbus, Ohio:
Growth in Freshwater Mussels $400.00
- Dr. Gustav Paulay University
of Guam Marine Laboratory: for research on Periglypta clams
$750.00
1990 -- $3,000.00
- Ronald Gilmer Harbor Branch
Oceanographic Institution Research Specialist: funds for publication
of unusual color photographs of a new species of pelagic,
deep-sea pteropod $600.00
- William S. Arnold University
of South Florida PhD candidate: chemical supplies for Biochemical
Studies of Argopecten gibbus in Relation to the Biochemistry
of Offshore Water Nutrients $500.00
- Jay Alan Schneider University
of Chicago PhD candidate; for study of The Evolutionary Significance
of Homoplasy in Cardiid Bivalves $500.00
- Lindsey T. Groves Los Angeles
County Museum of Natural History: photog. supplies and museum
travel for studies on "Paleontology and Biostratigraphy
of Fossil and Recent Cypreaeceans of the Eastern Pacific"
$400.00
- Jacksonville Shell Club Assistance
in publication of An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of
Recent Northeast Florida Marine Mollusks $1,000.00
1989 -- $3,900.00
- Susan C. McBride Moss Landing
Marine Laboratory, CA Master's Degree student: Diet Studies
in Post-larval Red Abalones, supplies and local transport
$500.00
- Dr. Richard Squires Department
of Geological Sciences, California State University, Northridge:
field expenses at a unique site for Eocene Marine Mollusks
in Baja, California $400.00
- Dr. Richard Turner Department
of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology: supplies
and SEM time: Ecological Implications of the Surfaces of Eggs
in Pomacea paludosa $400.00
- Jose H. Leal University of
Miami PhD candidate: photographs for thesis on the Zoogeography
of Brazilian Offshore Island Prosobranchs $700.00
- Amelie H. Scheltema Independent
guest investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Massachusetts: photog. and lab supplies for Descriptions of
New Species of Aplacophorans from Deep Sea Thermal Vents $700.00
- Jennifer L. Greenier Moss
Landing Marine Laboratory, CA Master's Degree student: laboratory
supplies for project on the Mariculture of Juvenile Red Abalones
$500.00
- Dr. Melbourne Carriker University
of Delaware, ret.: photog. supplies and manuscript preparation
of chapter in a book on the history of oyster research and
the biography of the late Paul Galtsoff, oyster expert $300.00
- Carolyn H. Declerck University
of California, Davis PhD candidate: supplies and SEM time
for project on the Gill Morphology of Gastropod Filter Feeders
$400.00
1988 -- $1,850.00
- Alan Kabat Harvard University:
SEM costs for a revision of the Naticidae $550.00
- Gary A. Coovert Curator of
Biology, Dayton Museum of Natural History, travel expenses
to eastern museums in connection with taxonomic work on Marginellidae
$500.00
- Dr. Rüdiger Bieler DuPont
Chair of Malacology, Delaware Museum of Natural History: color
plate costs for publishing Vermetid monograph of the genus
Serpulorbis in The Nautilus $800.00
1987 -- $1,800.00
- Dr. Roger Hanlon Marine Biomedical
Unit, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: Printing
costs on the behavioral taxonomy of cephalopods $800.00
- Dr. Charles Bowen California
State Polytechnic University at Pomona: an electrophoresis
chamber for a study propounding that Pacific Haliotis developed
independently $500.00
- Lindsey T. Groves California
State University, Northridge, graduate student: Southern California
Molluscan Paleontology $500.00
1986 -- $1,500.00
- Smithsonian Institution For
use of a graduate student studying mollusks at the Smithsonian
$1,000.00
- Dr. Rüdiger Bieler Monograph
on Architectonicidae $500.00
1985 -- $2,000.00
- Smithsonian Institution For
use of a graduate student studying mollusks at the Smithsonian
$1,000.00
- Long Island Shell Club To
assist with the Long Island Shell Club Monograph on the "Seashells
of Long Island, New York: A Guide to Their Identification
and Local Status" $1,000.00
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