2000 PADI FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENTS
| Req. No. |
Recipient Name | Project Funded | Amount Requested |
Grant Amount |
| N/A | Cabrillo Marine Aquarium San Pedro, California |
Cabrillo Coastal Park Trail | $13,000 | $1,932 |
| 3 | Thunder Bay Underwater Preserve
Alpena, Michigan |
Thunder Bay Diver Education Program | $9,950 | $3,450 |
| 9 | Armagan Sabetian Dunedin, New Zealand |
Coastal Reef Grouper Population and Fisheries Dynamics in the Solomon Islands | $5,400 | $5,400 |
| 16 | Friends of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium San Pedro, California |
PADI Foundation/CMA Research Intern Program | $3,000 | $3,000 |
| 18 | Brad E. Erisman Northridge, California | Field and Laboratory Investigations on the Behavior of Kelp (Calico) Bass | $5,800 | $3,600 |
| 24 | Sarah Tso Statesboro, Georgia | Evolution of Animal Breeding Systems: Patterns of Sex Expression in the Caribbean Coral, Porites astreoides | $8,905.52 | $4,000 |
| 30 | Wild Dolphin Project Jupiter, Florida |
Wild Dolphin Project | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 32 | Maiko Kasuya Northridge, California | The Effects of Grazing by Amphipods on the Morphology of Rhodophyte, Pterocladia capillacea, and Its Possible Consequences | $1,495.80 | $1,495.80 |
| 36 | Hubbs Sea World Research Institute San Diego,California | Saving the Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle | $16,952 | $10,000 |
| 46 | Wallace J. Nichols Brookdale, California | Movement and Mortality Patterns of Baja California Sea Turtles | $2,650 | $2,650 |
| 47 | Project SeahorseMontreal, Quebec, Canada | Understanding Movement in an Exploited Seahorse Species | $6,719 | $7,000 |
| 49 | Richard Hamilton, Ph.D. Candidate Dunedin, New Zealand |
Investigating the Ecology of Hump-Headed Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) in the Solomon Islands | $9,200 | $9,200 |
| 64 | Dr. Marcos Callisto Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Assessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrates Diversity in the Middle Rio Doce (Brazil): Tools for Conservation and Management | $9,000 | $4,500 |
| 69 | Stephen L. Estabrooks, Ph.D. Nantucket, Massachusetts |
The Role of Telomerase in the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians (Lamarck) | $5,920 | $5,920 |
| 70 | Ocean Watch Foundation Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
Establishment of 2 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Greater Fort Lauderdale | $10,500 | $4,500 |
| 73 | Yolanda M. León Gainesville, Florida | A Study of Hawksbill Sea Turtles in the Dominican Republic | $5,830 | $5,830 |
| 76 | Christoffer Schander, Ph.D. Woods Hole, Massachusetts |
Characters in Phylogenetic Studies of Aplacophorans | $9,980 | $9,980 |
| 77 | Alaska Marine Conservation Council Anchorage, Alaska | Behavioral Ecology of Alaska Red King Crab, Paralithodes camtschatica (An Educational Video) | $4,975 | $4,975 |
| 81 | Medolian C. Pressley Greenville, North Carolina | The Role of Habitat Limitation and Predator Defense for Aggregation in Aposematic, Chemically-Defended Gammarid Amphipods | $6,175 | $6,175 |
| 82 | Carlie Rodriguez Tucson, Arizona | Establishing Natural Standards of Faunal Assemblages for Conservation and Restoration Using the Recent Paleontological Record | $1,650 | $1,650 |
| 91 | Oceans for Youth Parkville, Missouri | Welcome to the Oceans: An Introduction by SAS, the Eel | $12,000 | $2,720 |
| 94 | Dr. John D. Rockaway Rolla, Missouri | Study of Contamination in the Coastal Groundwater Flow System as it Affects the Health of the Near-Shore Reef at Akumal, Mexico | $8,947 | $8,947 |
| 96 | Martha O. Burford San Francisco, California |
Population Structure and the Formation of Year-Class in Bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) | $4,190 | $4,190 |
| 101 | Stefan Kraan Galway, Republic of Ireland |
Alien Seaweed Introduction in Ireland: The Present Status of the Distribution of Asparagopsis armata and Possible Introduction of the Asian Kelp Undaria pinnatifida | $8,067 | $3,690 |
| 108 | American Oceans Campaign Petaluma, California |
Voice of the Sea: A Streaming Video Channel on the Worldwide Web | $18,200 | $5,000 |
| 109 | Larisa Avens Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
Homing Behavior and Orientation Mechanisms in Juvenile Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta caretta, in Cores Sound, NC | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| 117 | Dr. Alexander Sh. Khabidov Barnaul, Russia |
Exposure of Nuclear Weapon Testing and A-Wastes Burial to the Nearshore Environment | $4,998 | $4,998 |
| 130 | Isabel Beasley Kuching, East Malaysia |
Conservation Biology of Inshore Dolphins and Porpoises in Northern Borneo | $4,449 | $4,449 |
| 131 | Nancy M. Dammann Charlevoix, Michigan | Cuidaderos de las Cochas: Community Based Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Peruvian Amazon | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| 147 | Nisse Goldberg Aptos, California |
What Restricts Calliarthron tuberculosum to Horizontal Rock Substrates? | $1,300 | $1,300 |
| 149 | Demian D. Chapman Dania Beach, Florida | Conservation Biology of the Principal Tropical Atlantic Shark-Dive Species, the Caribbean Reef Shark, Carcharhinus perezi | $9,630 | $9,630 |
| 153 | Charles L. Littnan Macquarie University New South Wales, Australia |
Fur Seals and Commercial Fisheries: Using Satellites to Assess Competition | $10,540 | $5,500 |
| 156 | Christina Semeniuk Burnaby, British Columbia |
The Impact of Giant Shovelnose Rays (Rhinobatos typus) on Seagrass Recovery | $7,350 | $5,000 |