The Louisiana Environmental Education Commission is pleased to announce the 2017 LEEC Grants Program finalists. We are looking forward to seeing the positive effects these worthy projects have in their schools and communities.
Thanks to all of our applicants and congratulations, finalists!
2017 LEEC Grants Program FINALISTS |
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Last Name |
First Name |
School/ Organization |
Project Title |
Number Impacted |
Funding Potential |
Educator Grants |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2084 |
$ 44,494.00 |