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Selected Grants and Awards

U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office.
Collaborative proposal with Kevin Olival, American Museum of Natural History, and Maarten Vonhof, Western Michigan University.
"Genetic approaches to defining conservation units for the Hawai`ian hoary bat". Pending. $15,606.

Department of Energy
20% Wind by 2030: Overcoming the Challenges.
Collaborative proposal with Maarten Vonhof, Western Michigan University.
"Genetic approaches to understanding the population-level impact of wind energy development on migratory bats". Pending. $99,932.56.

Grand Valley State University
Faculty Summer Stipend.
"Gone with the Wind: Population Genetics of Eastern Red Bats (Lasiurus borealis) and the Effect of Wind Turbine-Related Fatalities". 2009. $5,000.

Grand Valley State University
Faculty Research Grant-in-Aid.
"Gone with the Wind: Population Genetics of Eastern Red Bats (Lasiurus borealis) and the Effect of Wind Turbine-Related Fatalities". 2009-2010. $3,000.

The Wenner-Gren Foundation
Post-Ph.D. Research Grant.
"Ancestral Population Structure and Gene Flow in the Genus Pan." 2007-2009.  $24,982.

The Leakey Foundation
Research Grant.
"Evolutionary Genomics of Wild Chimpanzee Populations". 2006-2009.  $16,000.

Yale University, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies,
Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Fellowship. 2003-2005.

University of Tennessee Division of Biology,
Science Alliance Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement, 2003,   $3000.

North American Symposium on Bat Research,
Karl Koopman Award for Outstanding Oral Presentation, 2002

University of Tennessee Graduate School,
Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship, 2002,   $15,000.

University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Graduate Student Summer Research Grant, 2002,   $1000.

University of Tennessee Office of Research,
Scholarly Activities Research Incentive Fund (SARIF) Summer Graduate Research Assistantship, 2001,   $3000.

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society,
Grant-in-aid-of-Research, 2000,   $300.

University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Graduate Merit Award, 2000,    $2500.

University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Graduate Student Summer Research Grant, 2000,   $1500.

Bat Conservation International,
Student Scholarship, 2000,   $2500.

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society,
Grant-in-aid of Research, 1999,   $700.

American Museum of Natural History,
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant, 1998,   $1300.

Case Western Reserve University,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Grant, 1994,    $2500.



 
 

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Pictured at right: Western Michigan's Maarten Vonhof (left) and Amy Russell receive a grant from the US Department of Energy.

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Grand Valley State University
Deptartment of Biology
Allendale, MI 49401
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