Research Awards

2009:

    $1000 to Allisyn-Marie Tsz Yan Gillet,  a grad student at Columbia University for her study "Reproductive Effects of Mercury in Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) Breeding in the New York Metropolitan Area."

    $500 to Jason Townsend, a grad student at SUNY-ESF, for his study "Use of Geolocator Technology to Determine the Migratory Pathways of a Threatened Songbird (Bicknell's Thrush).

    $1000 to Virginia L. Winder, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, for her study "Mercury (Hg) levels in feathers and blood of two species of coastal sparrows (Ammodramus nelsoni and

A. caudacutus) from over-wintering and breeding sites (salt marshes along the North Carolina coast and habitat in northern U.S. and Canada, respectively)."

    The committee gave a fourth grant, using $1000 that was returned to EBBA by an awardee in 2008. This was awarded to:

    $1000 to Morgan E. Gilmour, a graduate student at Bucknell University, for his study "Investigating the relationships of winter corticosteroid levels, stable isotope signatures, and reproductive effort of a long-lived

seabird, Leach's storm-petrel."

2008:

    "An assessment of ecological factors that limit passerines during long-distance migrations" submitted by Susan B. Smith, University of Rhode Island.

    "Ecology of the Southeastern American Kestrel in Florida and its response to sandhill habitat conversion" submitted by Jessi L. Brown, University of Nevada, Reno.

2007:

    "Mercury contamination and reproductive success in a terrestrial song bird (Carolina Wren)" submitted by Scott Friedman of College of William and Mary.

    "Habitat use of a tropical dry forest in northern Costa Rica by Neotropical migratory birds during the winter season" submitted by Maria A. Maglianese, Costa Rican Biologist Professional School.

2006:

    "Influence of an ecological barrier on directional decisions on nocturnal migrants" submitted by Kristen Covino of the University of Maine.

    "Estimating the demographic consequences of wetland fragmentation : movement and survival patterns in a threatened salt marsh bird" submitted by Jason Hill of the University of Connecticut.

2005:

    "Selective pressures on two sub-species of Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) in different marsh landscapes" submitted by Brian Olsen of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.

     "The overwinter ecology of the Bicknell's Thrush: Differential habitat occupancy and territoriality on Hispaniola" submitted by Jason M. Townsend of Binghamton University.

2004:

    "Post breeding movements and habitat use of Bicknell's Thrush" (Catharus bicknelli) in the southern Green Mountains of Vermont submitted by Brendan Collins of Antioch         New England Graduate School.

    "Wintering ecology of the Piping Plover" (Charadrius melodus) in coastal Georgia submitted by Brandon L. Noel of Georgia Southern University.

2003:

    William Hobbs (Rutgers University)- "Age related hunting tactics of the American Kestrel in Eastern Pennsylvania"

    Susan Guer  (Villanova University, PA)- "Forest fragmentation and induced edge effect on Black-capped Chickadees"

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