LEEC Special eNews Bulletin: 2017 LEEC Grants Finalists Announced

2017 LEEC Grants Program FINALISTS

Last Name

First Name

School/ Organization

Project Title

Number Impacted

 Funding Potential 

Educator Grants

Lemoine

Joanna

St. Aloysius School

3D Animal Adaptations

120

 $1,999.00 

Perilloux

Cynthia

Albany Middle School

Environmental Education through Art

35

 $993.00 

Green School Grants

Guillory

Alexis

Plaisance Elementary School

The Indian’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative

225

 $3,509.00 

Sullivan

Jeanell

Lusher Charter School

Operation Plastic Reduction

110

 $ 4,958.00 

Turner

Steven

Covington High School

High School Nature Trail

1500

 $5,000.00 

Professional Development Grants

Kleiner

Heather

Sci-Port Discovery Center

Watershed to the Red

12

 $2,312.00 

Krouse

Stephanie

Academic Distinction Fund

First Time Foresters

20

 $2,500.00 

LeBlanc

Tricia

Audubon Nature Institute

Discovering the Wonders of Nature

20

 $2,150.00 

May-Brett

Jean

Louisiana Science Teachers Association

The New LSSS for the Informal Science Educator 

25

$2000.00

University Research Grants

Barrett

Shelby

Southeastern Louisiana University

Growth Responses of Three Wetland Plant Species to Various Levels of Flooding and Nutrients

1

 $   1,200.00 

Blanchard

Matthew

Louisiana State University 

Long-term population dynamics of an old-growth longleaf pine population

1

 $     800.00 

Faldyn

Matthew

Louisiana State University

Impacts of climate change - The roles of abiotic and biotic interactions on community-dynamics in the monarch butterfly system

1

 $   1,200.00 

Formel

Stephen

Tulane University

Differential Gene Expression in Roots of Spartina alterniflora under Oil Pollution Stress

1

 $   1,200.00 

Geary

Brock

Tulane University

Social and environmental information use by foraging brown pelicans

1

 $   1,109.00 

Harms

Nathan

Louisiana State University

Biological control at a range margin: interactions between multiple agents and host genotypes

1

 $    1,191.00 

Harman

Rachel

Louisiana State University

Individual and Density Dependent Movement of an Insect within a Patch, Matrix, and at the Border

1

$     1,200.00

Hebert

John

Tulane University

Migration Stopover Ecology of the Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

1

$    1,200.00

Jones

Hollis

Louisiana State University

Biomarker of resilience in Crassostrea virginica

1

$       958.00

Kent

Cody

Tulane University

Population Genetics of a Migratory Bird Population

1

$     1,128.00

Preston

Devin

University of New Orleans

Temporal heterogeneity as a driver of microevolution of plasticity in thermotolerance in the differential grasshopper

1

$   1,200.00

Radunzel-Davis

Lorissa

Louisiana State University

Impact of Soil Microbes on Cogongrass Growth in Native and Non-Native Soil

1

$  1,200.00

Reiman

Jeremy

Louisiana State University

Determination of carbon sources in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River System

1

$  1,200.00

Steele

Christen

Tulane University

Interacting effects of disease and non-native milkweed species on the behavior and survival of monarch butterflies

1

$   1,080.00

Umlang

Lance

Louisiana State University

Effects of hurricanes, in the context of ongoing sea level rise, on plant communities in coastal transitions

1

$       807.00

Wang

Bo

Louisiana State University

Assessment of sand storage of large channel bars in the Lower Mississippi River

1

$  1,200.00

Weidow

Elliot

University of New Orleans

Diversity in an invasive plant: a historic and contemporary perspective

1

$   1,200.00

2084

 $ 44,494.00