2009 PADI FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENTS
Req. |
Recipient Name | Project Funded |
Grant |
| 23 | Stella Maris Januario da Silva | Coexistence mechanisms of intertidal crabs competing for refuges: local processes and regional variation | 4,500 |
| 28 | Camila Granados, M.Sc. | Free-living Symbiodinium: still an unknown habitat for the symbiont of reef corals | 3,300 |
| 35 | Benno Pereira PhD | 'Miss Kerala' on the edge: assessing population and harvest levels for developing conservation plans for an endemic and endangered cyprinid, Puntius denisonii (Day) in the rivers of Western Ghats, Kerala, India | 5,000 |
| 54 | Christopher Goatley | Variation in sediment mediation of reef fish herbivory | 4,308.20 |
| 59 | Aisling Brady | Coral Spawning Synchronicity: The Role of Circadian Genes in Circalunar Rhythms | 3,775.00 |
| 64 | Neidy Pauline Cetz-Navarro | Colonization of the coral Montastraea annularis by filamentous turf algae: strategies of macroalgae and responses of the coral | 5,700 |
| 65 | Andrew Cole | The control of coral disease by coral-feeding fishes | 3,426.15 |
| 69 | Megan Wehrenberg | Population dynamics and mechanisms for persistence of the red algae, Gracilariopsis spp., in Central California | 1,704.62 |
| 73 | Melania C. López-Castro | Deciphering the mystery of the "lost-year" of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) using trace elements | 9,900 |
| 74 | Vera Pavel | Circulation onTidal Flats | 3,500 |
| 78 | Adrian Gutteridge | Tracking the movements of the Endangered great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran, along the Queensland coast, Australia: Implications for Conservation and Fisheries management | 8,500 |
| 95 | Dr. Konstantin S. Tkachenko | Influence of mineralogical type of rocks on the composition and abundance of marine sessile epibenthos | 4,500 |
| 96 | Michael Fabinyi | Policy analysis of the live reef fish for food trade in Palawan province, Philippines | 4,510 |
| 99 | Horia R. Galea, PhD | Biodiversity and taxonomy of hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe, eastern Caribbean | 2,000 |
| 100 | Mark Mathews | Green Canteen Project | 1,000 |
| 106 | Kimberly Baldwin | A Marine Resource and Space Use Information System for the Grenadine Islands (MarSIS): Community mapping exercises of marine resources, livelihood and threatened areas | 2,970 |
| 126 | Nicky Cariglia | The Relative Influence of Habitat and Protection on Holothurian Abundance in Maldives | 1,380 |
| 146 | Jane Wia | Marine biodiversity conservation through the development of a data management system | 2,000 |
| 159 | Modi Roopin | Melatonin and its possible role in mediating reproduction cycles of reef corals | 10,400 |
| 180 | Shara Fisler | Ocean Leaders: Developing diverse leadership through marine research opportunities | 10,000 |
| 181 | Gil Bohrer | Eddy-flux measurements of evaporation from the coral-reef lagoon in the red sea | 4,400 |
| 182 | Katie Lotterhos | Rockfish conservation genetics: annual variation in gene flow from adult to recruit populations across the US-Canada border | 4,197.07 |
| 208 | Brad Gemmell | Understanding predator and prey interactions between reef dwelling fish and their planktonic prey using in situ high speed 3D holographic video analysis | 2,095 |
| 227 | Patrick J. Gibson | New Pathways in Coral Reef Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling: Transformations by Sponges | 7,160 |
| 232 | Steve Doo | Effects of Ocean Acidification on Planktonic Calcifiers: A project examining effects of elevated anthropogenic pCO2 on calcification rates of planktonic foraminifers | 5,000 |
| 252 | Marieta Francis, Acting Executive Director | The Impact of Micro-plastics on Planktivorous Fish from the North Central Pacific Gyre | 2,500 |
| 263 | Paula Moore, Executive Director | PADI Summer Internships in Marine Science Research | 5,000 |
| 286 | Janne T. Nielsen | Do Male Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta caretta) Mediate Gene Flow? | 2,510 |
| 293 | Christine Figgener | Use of DNA analysis to determine paternal lineages and to estimate the genetic diversity and its change in the past 15-20 years within the Caribbean population of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in Costa Rica | 2,100 |
| 299 | Ronan Roche | A long term record of environmental change on the near shore Great Barrier Reef | 3,000 |
| 323 | Denise M. Yost | Spatial variation of DMSP production and DMSP lyase activity in three species of Bermuda coral | 4,900.50 |
| 326 | Brian Cheng | Climate Change Effects on Invasive and Native Species Interactions | 4,250 |
| 333 | Cameron James Veal | Assessment and characterization of aquatic light fields and water quality within the ecologically significant lagoon and coral reef environments within the Meso-American Barrier Reef System | 3,500 |
| 334 | Melanie Hutchinson | Reducing shark bycatch using electropositive metals | 5,676 |
| 336 | Jessica Jarett | Effects of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial symbionts on growth, reproduction, and predator deterrence in the coral Montastrea cavernosa | 5,000 |
| 379 | Gabriel Grimsditch | Schools to the Sea | 2,000 |
| 392 | Ericka Ann Poppell | Microbial symbionts and sponge heterotrophy: consequences of benthic-pelagic coupling in the context of a changing reef environment | 4,052 |
| 403 | Brett Favaro | Beating the squeeze of fishing pressure: reducing rockfish bycatch in BC’s prawn trap fishery | 2,226 |
| 406 | Mario Espinoza and Thomas Farrugia | Seasonal residency, movement patterns and habitat use of two benthic predators, the gray smooth-hound shark (Mustelus californicus) and shovelnose guitarfish (Rhinobatos productus), in a newly accessible system | 3,000 |
| 418 | Jennifer M. Kishimori | Identification of pathogenic metazoan ectoparasites and wild hosts to enable disease transfer risk assessments of critical wild fish stocks and mariculture in Hawaii | 2,200 |
| 444 | Margaret E. Kellogg, PhD | Conservation genetic studies of threatened West Indian manatee populations in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico | 4,880 |
| 458 | Gabby N. Ahmadia | Ecological contribution of an underrepresented fish community towards coral reef ecosystems | 2,740 |
| 465 | Patricia Baum | Future Biologists", Exposing Young People to Marine Biology through Endangered Sea Turtle Conservation Programs | 1,000 |
| 479 | Abhinav Gautam | Underwater Swarm Robots | 4,385 |
| 489 | Julia O’Hern | Determining Marine Mammal Distribution Between Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands and Establishing Remote Sensing Techniques for Habitat Management | 3,000 |
| 508 | Casuarina McKinney-Lamberts | Our Reefs: Caribbean Connections Traveling Exhibition in The Bahamas | 2,500 |