Congratulations again to all KSNH grant recipients and best of luck to each of you in your research.
Once again KSNH would like to thank the following generous funding sources that make our grants possible: Several KSNH members, the Woody Boebinger family,  Touchstone Energy and Bernadine Meyer family.   We thank you for their your contributions that helps us meet one of our major goals.

In order to continue funding these grants, new monies need to come in each year. KSNH is a not-for-profit, 501-C-3 corporation and all your gifts are fully tax deductible under the tax code. Please remember KSNH Click  making donations to non-profit organizations. We promise we will get the most “bang for your bucks”; and you will be showing your good nature at the same time.

KSNH 2007 GRANT RECIPIENTS

KSNH Grant Coordinator, Wally Roberts, is proud to announce the following 2007 KSNH Grant recipients in the fields of Kentucky’s natural history and biodiversity.

The Bernadine Meyer Memorial Scholarship grant in the amount of $800 goes to Christopher T. Owen, a doctorial candidate at the University of Louisville. Chris is a second time recipient of a KSNH grant having been awarded one of our grants in 2005, as a master degree student. Chris is working on the culturing of freshwater mussels. His work is quite complex, but has great potential as a method to rear endangered and imperiled mussels for reintroduction recovery. Chris will be giving a brief synopsis of his research at the KSNH Falls of the Ohio Chapter meeting on September 20th, 7:00 p.m. at the Louisville Nature Center.

The Woody Boebinger Memorial Scholarship grant in the amount of $700 goes to Meghan Langley, another doctorial candidate at the University of Louisville. Meghan is studying the “Distributional Patterns and Plant Diversity of Urban Wetlands in Jefferson County, Kentucky.” She hopes her research will help fill in critical holes about wetlands in Jefferson County and inspire local residents to pay more attention to these valuable natural resources.

KSNH Research Grants were also awarded to the following masters research students at Eastern Kentucky University:

Kacie Tackett received $750 towards her research studies of “Disturbance History and Climatic Response of Two-mixed Mesophytic Forests in the Cumberland Plateau.”

Christine Lattin received $500 towards her research studies of the “Intra and Intersexual Functions of Singing by Male Blue Grosbeaks and the Role of Within-song variation.”

Lindsay Rohrbaugh received $500 towards her research on the “Analysis of the Effects of Pond Size on Physicochemical Habitat Characteristics of Ponds Inhabited by Aquatic Turtles in Fayette and Madison Counties, Kentucky.”

Congratulations to all of our KSNH 2007 grant recipients. KSNH can only proudly award these very important grants with your continued financial support. If you are interested in helping with the continued funding for our KSNH grants, please consider making a generous contribution to the Bernadine Meyer, Woody Boebinger, or KSNH General Scholarship Funds. Some contributors may wish to make arrangements through estates, trusts, or wills. KSNH will happily work with your attorney if this is your preferred method of giving. Regardless of the amount and how you wish to donate, please donate…KSNH depends on your generosity to continue this very important program.

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