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Current & Past Research Fellows
The Research Fellowship Program receives many high caliber grant applications. As stated in our guidelines, the RFP is designed to support individual field research projects leading to the conservation of threatened wildlife and wildlife habitat. Grant applications must demonstrate that the project has scientific merit as well as direct relevance to conservation issues. Each grant application is evaluated carefully by the Program Committee. Our decisions are based on many factors, including technical reviews, budgetary constraints, and the Society's existing programmatic commitments.
2007 September
In the 2007 September grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 123 proposals and granted support to the following:
Typhenn Brichieri-Colombi
Award: $13,960.00
Country: Mexico
Title: “Effects of highway expansion on wildlife in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico"
Emiliano Donadio
Award: $15,000.00
Country: Argentina
Title: “Conserving the last of the wild: pumas and wild camelids in the semiarid landscapes of the Argentinean Andes”
Laura Graham
Award: $20,000.00
Country: Indonesia
Title: “Restoration from within: Developing restoration action plans from ecological and indigenous knowledge"
Muhammad Iqbal
Award: $13,398.00
Country: Indonesia
Title: “ A Mega Transect for Monitoring and Searching Breeding Areas of Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea in the East Coastal of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia"
Leonardo Oliveira
Award: $15,000.00
Country: Brazil
Title: “Can golden-headed lion tamarins survive in cabruca agroforest? Management implications for an endangered species and habitat"
Anna Songhurst
Award: $11,485.00
Country: Botswana
Title: “Human-Elephant Conflict in the Okavango Panhandle, an HEC Hotspot in Africa"
Varun Swamy
Award: $20,000.00
Country: Peru
Title: “The Empty Forest reexamined: Establishing the basis for long-term, ontogenetically-integrated, basin-wide study of the effects of hunting-induced mammalian extinctions regeneration in lowland western Amazonia"
Flavie Vial
Award: $8,750.00
Country: Ethiopia
Title: “Conservation science for common ground: developing the necessary tools to manage livestock grazing in Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia"
Senarathge Weerawardhena
Award: $4,974.00
Country: Sri Lanka
Title: “Patterns of Recolonization of Tropical Anurans following Forest Habitat Alteration"
2007 March
In the 2007 March grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 176 proposals and granted support to the following:
Anne Axel
Award: $13,000.00
Country: Madagascar
Title: “Evaluating and modeling lemur-habitat relationships along environmental and disturbance gradients in the drylands of southern Madagascar"
Asri Dwiyahreni
Award: $8,000.00
Country: Indonesia
Title: “Anoa ecology and conservation in Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia”
Florence Gardipee
Award: $13,500.00
Country: United States of America
Title: “Conservation and genetics of the Greater Yellowstone Area bison populations"
Raman Kumar
Award: $11,447.00
Country: India
Title: “Woodpeckers in Modified Dipterocarp Forests in Sub-Himalayan India: An Investigation into Habitat Relationships and Survey Methods”
Andres Link
Award: $18,045.00
Country: Colombia
Title: “Population Status and Behavioral Ecology of the Critically Endangered Brown Spider Monkeys (Ateles hybridus) in Colombia"
Qunxiu Liu
Award: $9,926.00
Country: China
Title: “Dependence of Tibetan foxes on plateau pikas"
Fernanda Michalski
Award: $19,950.00
Country: Brazil
Title: “Using landscape species as indicators of functional corridors in the Brazilian Amazon"
Caleb Boateng Ofori
Award: $9,135.00
Country: Ghana
Title: “Effects of Forest Fragmentation and Degradation on Leaf Litter Anurans in Two Forest Types"
Linet Watson
Award: $16,430.00
Country: Guyana
Title: “Ecology and conservation status of the endangered giant Fish Arapaima arapaima in Guyana"
2006 September
In the 2006 September grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 131 proposals and granted support to the following:
Brett Benz
Award: $20,955.00
Country: Papua New Guinea
Title: “Assessing Avian Conservation Priorities in the Adelbert Mountains of Papua New Guinea: Land Cover, Distributional Limits, and Status of the Vulnerable Adelbert Endemics”
Santiago Espinosa
Award: $22,000.00
Country: Ecuador
Title: “Effects of road development and bushmeat extraction on jaguar conservation in Ecuador's Yasuni National Park”
Aimee (Mimi) Kessler
Award: $22,000.00
Country: Mongolia/Kazakhstan
Title: “The Great Bustards (Otis tarde) in Central Asia: From Conservation Biology to Land-use Planning”
Geoffrey Mwangi Wambugu
Award: $9,000.00
Country: Kenya
Title: “Conserving endemic endangered birds in Mau Narok/Molo grasslands IBA: Using alternative community-based conservation friendly approaches”
Julie Razafimanahaka
Award: $16,788.00
Country: Madagascar
Title: “Deforestation, Bushmeat and Beetles: Conservation of a Malagasy Giant Hipposideros Commersoni"
Mario Vargas-Ramirez
Award: $5,780.00
Country: Colombia
Title: “Participatory research towards the conservation of the endangered-endemic River turtle Podocnemis lewyana in the Upper Magdalena river, Colombia”
Pia Sethi
Award: $19,210.00
Country: India
Title: “Seed Dispersal and Regeneration of Hornbill Dispersed Tree Species in Forests of the Indian Eastern Himalayas”
2006 March
In the 2006 March grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 131 proposals and granted support to the following:
Luis Camilli
Award: $12,629.43
Country: Panama
Title: “Coral Reef Conservation through Optical-Chemical Ecological Assessment of Pacific Panamanian Reef Habitats”
Renzo Giudice
Award: $13,280.00
Country: Peru
Title: “Desert spectacled bears design their own reserve”
Ainka Granderson
Award: $895.00
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
Title: “Rethinking Participatory Management: Towards ecoregion-based Conservation in Trinidad & Tobago”
Yanlin Liu
Award: $13,000.00
Country: China
Title: “The relationship among kiang, grassland and livestock/nomadic Tibetan livelihoods in eastern Changtang Tibet, China"
Thomas Morrison
Award: $14,500.00
Country: Tanzania
Title: “Where the antelope once roamed: the demography and movement patterns of a migratory ungulate population in a human-altered landscape”
Fortunata Msoffe
Award: $17,000.00
Country: Tanzania
Title: “Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes, Dynamics and Impacts in the Tarangire-Simanjiro Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania”
Lazarus Pomara
Award: $6,182.00
Country: Peru
Title: “Environmental and Human Influences on the Distribution of Birds in the Western Amazon, and Implications for Conservation Planning”
Emilienne Rasoazanabary
Award: $19,000.00
Country: Madagascar
Title: “The human factor in mouse lemur (Microcebus griseorufus) conservation: local resource utilization and habitat disturbance at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, SW Madagascar”
Luis Rivera
Award: $11,875.00
Country: Argentina
Title: “Reproductive Ecology and Conservation of Alder Amazon (Amazona tucumana)”
Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal
Award: $7,420.00
Country: Argentina
Title: “Habitat assessment for a threatened keystone marsupial in Patagonia”
Andrew Van Eck
Award: $8,635.00
Country: Lebanon
Title: “Small Mammal Declines: Predicting Who & Why"
Rudolf von May
Award: $6,867.00
Country: Peru
Title: “Diversity patterns of amphibians in lowland Amazonian forests, southeaster Peru”
2005 September
In the 2005 September grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 129 proposals and granted support to the following:
Ambika Aiyadurai
Award: $8,000.00
Country: India
Title: “Hunting in a Biodiversity Hotspot: Implications for Wildlife Conservation in Arunachai Pradesh, India”
Christos Astaras
Award: $13,755.00
Country: Cameroon
Title: “Ecology and Status of Drills (Mandrillus leucophaeus) in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon: Implications for their Conservation”
Sumanta Bagchi
Award: $8,000.00
Country: India
Title: “Rangeland degradation in the Trans-Himalayas, northern India”
Claudio Delgado-Rodriguez
Award: $10,930.00
Country: Chile
Title: “Marine otter (Lontra felina) and coastal biodiversity; preliminary testing of the efficacy as an umbrella species.”
Thang Long Ha
Award: $8,000.00
Country: Vietnam
Title: “Behavioural Ecology and Conservation of the Grey-shanked douc Monkey (Pygathrix cinerea) in the Central Highlands of Vietnam”
Shaun Grassel
Award: $12,886.00
Country: Lower Brule Sioux Indian Reservation, United States
Title: “Survival, Home Range, Dispersal, and Reproduction of Reintroduced Swift Fox on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, South Dakota”
Bright Boye Kumordzi
Award: $5,265.00
Country: Ghana
Title: “Taxonomy and Ecology of Elephant in Ghana”
Kurt McLaren
Award: $5,000.00
Country: Jamaica
Title: “Floristics and structure of two forests over limestone in Jamaica and the status and distribution of amphibians within these forests”
Michelle Cienek Moorman
Award: $9,500.00
Country: Chile
Title: “The conservation implications of invasive exotic beaver (Castor canadensis) and trout (Salmo trutta & Oncorhynchus mykiss) on freshwater fish communities in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile”
Ragde Sanchez-Talavera
Award: $11,500.00
Country: Costa Rica
Title: “Population Dynamics of a Community of bats at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica: A long term study (1972, 2005)”
Ursula Valdez
Award: $12,000.00
Country: Peru
Title: “Ecology and habitat use of Forest-falcons (Micrastur) in lowland Amazonia of southeastern Peru”
Abi Tamim Vanak
Award: $12,000.00
Country: India
Title: “Interactions between domestic dogs and Indian foxes in an endangered grassland habitat”
2005 Winter
In the 2005 January grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 99 proposals and granted support to twelve researchers. They are:
Nancy Dammann Davis
Award: $16,000
Country: Peru
Title: "Community based conservation on the Ucayali: Ecological analysis of the aquatic terrestrial interface in the Peruvian Amazon"
Sheri Glowinski-Matamoros
Award: $12,000
Country: Honduras
Title: "Biology of Nearctic-Neotropical songbird Migrants during stopover on Bay Island, Honduras"
Natalia Politi
Award: $16,000
Country: Argentina
Title: "Using cavity-nesters to inform sustainable forestry"
Nathan Gregory
Award: $9,450
Country: Kenya
Title: "The role of anthropogenic fire and livestock grazing in sustaining avian diversity in East African Savannas"
Innocent Rwego
Award: $12,000
Country: Uganda
Title: "The ecology of disease transmission: Implications for primate conservation in Kibale National Park, Uganda"
Matthew Swarner
Award: $14,000
Country: Botswana
Title: "Tracking conflict of the African wild dog in the central Kalahari, Botswana"
Eugenia Bragina
Award: $4,625
Country: Russia
Title: "Vanishing Cranes: An acoustic approach to remote population monitoring"
Sharon Brooks
Award: $12,215
Country: Cambodia
Title: "The conservation of exploited water snakes from the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia"
Margaretha Pangau-Adam
Award: $11,000
Country: Indonesia
Title: "The impact of subsistence and commercial hunting on wildlife in the Jayapura region, West Papua, Indonesia"
Marcie Carter
Award: $10,135
Country: USA-Nez Perce Tribal Lands
Title: "Nesting ecology of Northern Goshawks Accipiter gentiles atricapillus on Nez Perce Tribal Lands"
Andrew Stein
Award: $8,000
Country: Namibia
Title: "Large Carnivore Estimates for Improved Management on Farmlands surrounding the Waterberg Plateau Park, Namibia, Africa"
Norman T-Lon Lim
Award: $6,500
Country: Singapore & Peninsular Malaysia
Title: "Status, Ecology and Conservation of the Malayan pangolin Manis javanica in Singapore and Jahore, Peninsular, Malaysia"
2004 Summer
In the 2004 Summer grant cycle, the Research Fellowship Program received a total of 86 proposals and granted support to seven researchers. They are:
Rafael Reyna
Award: $18,100
Country: Mexico
Title: "How differences in group size and movements are related with food availability for the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) in Southern Mexico"
Summary: Mr. Reyna will be examining how changes in food availability influence group size and movement of the white-lipped peccary in southern Mexico.
Lyndon Estes
Award: $25,000
Country: Kenya
Title: "Reintroducing a large herbivore: a remote sensing and agent-based modeling technique to determine the mountain bongo's (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) past and present critical habitat"
Summary: Mr. Estes will be using remote sensing and agent-based modeling to study a subspecies of antelope, the mountain bongo, to determine their ecological requirements in order to inform a program that will re-introduce bongo to Mount Kenya.
Jan Kamler
Award: $17,870
Country: South Africa
Title: "The effects of habitat fragmentation and larger canids on cape foxes (Vulpes chama) in southern Africa"
Summary: Dr. Kamler will be conducting the first detailed study of the cape fox to determine the effects of habitat fragmentation on their distribution and if canid competition is causing their apparent population decline.
Hai Dong Thanh
Award: $11,330
Country: Vietnam
Title: "Behavioral Ecology and Conservation of Phinopithecus (Presbyticus) avunculus in Vietnam"
Summary: Mr. Dong Thanh will be studying the social organization, behaviour, feeding ecology, and habitat and range use of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus (Presbytiscus) avunculus), a critically endangered primate endemic to northern Vietnam.
Tsewang Namgail
Award: $9,856
Country: India
Title: Status, distribution and niche relationships of the ungulates in the Indian Trans-Himalaya
Summary: Mr. Namgail will be studying the population and distribution of all eight mountain ungulates in the Ladakh region of the Indian Trans-Himalaya. In addition, he will study the habitat requirements and niche relationships of three ecologically similar mountain goats.
Dhirendra Kumar Pradhan
Award: $2,875
Country: Nepal
Title: "Status, Distribution and Conservation of Grey-crowned Prinia (Prinia Cinereocapilla) in Royal Chitwan National Park, Central Region, Nepal"
Summary: Mr. Kumar Pradhan aims to explore the population status and habitat conditions of the and Grey–Crowned Prinia in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal, and to create a distribution map using GIS.
Laurel James
Award: $24,800
Country: USA
Title: "Habitat use patterns of native Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) populations on the Yakama Reservation; Cascade Mountains, Washington State"
Summary: Ms. James will be capturing and radio collaring mountain goats to determine their habitat use and requirements in the Yakama Reservation in Washington State, USA.
2004 Winter
Boaz Kaunda-Arara
Award: $13,934
Country: Kenya
Title: "Dispersal of exploited coral reef fishes from a marine reserve: Evaluating the role of Mombasa Marine Park, Kenya, in conservation and sustenance of adjacent fisheries"
Carlos Eduardo Trucco Aleman
Award: $6,400
Country: Argentina
Title: "Livestock and native fauna: changes affecting predation and secondary dispersal of woody plantspecies seed in the semiarid Chaco woodland, Copo National Park and surroundings, Argentina"
Adriana Rodriguez-Ferraro
Award: $9,383
Country: Venezuela
Title: "Community ecology and conservation of bird assemblages in arid zones of northern Venezuela"
Joshua Linder
Award: $16,700
Country: Cameroon
Title: "Differential Vulnerability of Primates to Hunting and Correlates of Extinction Risk: Implications for Primate Conservation"
Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu
Award: $8,000
Country: Costa Rica
Title: "Survival of seed dispersing forest birds in Costa Rican countryside"
Huseyin Ambarli
Award: $5,000
Country: Turkey
Title: "Humans and brown bears (Ursus arctos) in northeastern Turkey: Patterns of conflict and solutions for conservation"
Kai Collins
Award: $11,600
Country: South Africa
Title: "Conservation of a critically endangered, spatially fragmented mammal species and its habitat: the riverine rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis)"
Andrew Quraishi
Award: $5,131
Country: Kenya
Title: "Breaking Bad Habits: Re-thinking Linkages for Community Conservation and Rural Development in sub-Saharan Africa"
Adrian Azpiroz
Award: $11,696
Country: Uruguay
Title: "Ecology and Conservation of Pampas Grassland Birds"
Som Ale
Award: $8,900
Country: Nepal
Title: "Ecology and conservation of the snow leopard and the Himalayan tahr in the Everest National Park in Nepal"
Amanda Webber
Award: $9,313
Country: Uganda
Title: "Primate Crop Raiding in Uganda: Predicting, understanding and mitigating the risk"
Minh Le
Award: $5,000
Country: Vietnam
Title: "A Proposed Survey for Turtles in Vietnam: Filling the Gap for Conservation Efforts in the Country"
Dipani Sutaria
Award: $11,197
Country: India
Title: The Ecology and Management of the marine and lagoonal population of the Irrawaddy dolphin Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) in Chilika lagoon and along the coast of Orissa, India
2003 Summer
Sonja Heinrich
Award: $7,120
Country: Chile
Title: "Conservation ecology of Chilean and Peale's dolphins in southern Chile"
Jill Anderson
Award: $17,000
Country: Peru
Title: "Seed dispersal by fruit-eating fishes"
Adrian A. Barnett
Award: $14,000
Country: Brazil
Title: "Seasonality, feeding ecology, annual range and conservation of golden-backed uacaris in Brazil"
Cintia Cornelius
Award: $10,852
Country: Chile
Title: "Genetic and demographic consequences of landscape changes on bird populations: a case study on Aphrastura spinicauda (Furnariidae) and Scelorchilus rubecula (Rhinocryptidae) in the South-Temperate"
Bhagawan Raj Dahal
Award: $7,750
Country: Nepal
Title: "Assesment of habitat use and human impact on swampfrancolin at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve"
Carolyn L. Ehardt
Award: $10,000
Country: Tanzania
Title: "Conservation Ecology and Demography of the Highly Endangered Sanje Mangabey, Cercocebus sanjei, of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania"
Annika Felton
Award: $8,330
Country: Bolivia
Title: Spider monkey conservation and reduced-impact logging: The potential co-dependence of spider monkeys (Ateles chamek) and timber tree species in a lowland rainforest, Bolivia
Trond Larsen
Award: $9,975
Country: Peru
Title: "Ecologically Functioning Communities: The impacts of hunting and logging on seed dispersal by dung beetles in neotropical forests"
Helen Morrogh-Bernard
Award: $14,255
Country: Indonesia
Title: "Behavioural ecology of orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a disturbed deep-peat swamp forest, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia"
Alfred Owino
Award: $5,557
Country: Kenya
Title: "The effects of land-use on bird community of a papyrus swamp in western Kenya"
Maria Elena Cuello
Award: $5,037
Country: Argentina
Title: "Towards the conservation of an endangered endemic frog from the Laguna Blanca Nacional Park"
2003 Winter
Nyambayar Batbayar
Award: $24,000
Country: Mongolia
Title: "Breeding ecology, movements, and conservation of the cinereous vulture in Mongolia"
Chris Duvall
Award: $15,036
Country: Mali
Title: "Spatial assessment of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) population and habitat in the Bafing protected areas, Mali"
Jordan Karubian
Award: $12,000
Country: Ecuador
Title: "Conservation of the long-wattled umbrellabird in the Equadorian Choco"
Sarah Aline Kühl
Award: $20,000
Country: Russia
Title: "Reproductive behaviour and ecology of the Critically Endangered Saiga antelope in Kalmykia, Russia"
Heather Leasor
Award: $2,350
Country: Malaysia
Title: "Cost Benefit Analysis of the Effects of Tourism/Ecotourism on Proboscis Monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) on the Lower Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysia"
Katarzyna Nowak
Award: $7,000
Country: Tanzania
Title: "Behavioral flexibility and reproductive output across floristic and disturbance gradients in an endangered primate"
Joel Strong
Award: $10,000
Country: Brazil
Title: "Seed Dispersal and the Ecological Implications of Harvesting Geochelone carbonaria and Geochelone denticulata in Northwestern Brazil"
Sarah Wong
Award: $5,920.00
Country: Ghana
Title: "Population Status of Colobus vellerosus in forest fragment surrounding the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary"
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