1997 Funded Grant Projects

Karleen A. Boyle, University of California, Los Angeles, California
"Balancing Conservation of Coastal Wetlands with the Expansion of Aviation Activities in Southern California"

Dr. Andrea Easter-Pilcher, Western Montana College, Dillon, Montana
"Alternatives for Wetland Restoration: Reintroduction of a Native Species to the Volga-Kama National Preserve in Kazan, Russia"

Annette Summers Engel, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Geomicrobiology Studies of a Place Lost in Time and Space - the Movile Cave, Romania"

James E. Grogan, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut
"Mahogany Reproductive Ecology and the Timing of Extraction"

Dr. Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
"Restoration of Tropical Rainforest from Agricultural Land in Costa Rica"

Paul Neipp, University of California, Riverside, California
"A Biological Control Alternative to Chemical Control of Plant Parasitic Nematodes"

Dr. Sean Phipps, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
"An Intervention to Promote Wellness and Attitudinal Healing in Children Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation"

Dr. Claudio U. Pinheiro, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
"Balancing Plant Conservation and Domestication of the Jaborandi plant in Northeastern Brazil"

Dr. Pencho Venkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
"A New More Sensitive Test for Studying Human/Natural Disbalance Caused by Pollution"

Kevina Vulinec, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
"The Role of Dung Beetles in Seed Dispersal and Reforestation of Rainforest and Agricultural Land in Rondonia, Brazil"