An award in the amount of $500 was made to each of the following individuals.
For more information on the program, see https://ssarherps.org/ssar-awards/grants-in-herpetology/.
Conservation:
Travis Rainey (Central Michigan University), “A Tiny Frog Facing Big Problems: Assessing Population Structure and Landscape Genetics at the Range Edge of a Declining Species.”
Iwo Gross (Auburn University), “Evaluating the Conservation Priority of Diamond-Backed Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) Nesting Beaches along the Northern Gulf of Mexico.”
International:
Avantika Deep Sharma (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India), “Intra-sexual interactions, signaling and spacing in the gliding lizard Draco dussumieri.”
Yashendu C Joshi (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India), “The Crocodile Conundrum of Charotar: Understanding Crocodile Behaviour and their Socioecological Connections with Humans.”
Remo Boscarino-Gaetano (University of Guelph, Canada), “Population genetics of fragmented and non-Fragmented Populations of a Reptile at its Northern Range Limit.”
Travel:
Alondra Medina (James Madison University), “Does Soil Stoichiometry Affect Leaf Litter Amphibian and Reptile Abundance, Biomass and Community Structure in Neotropical Wet Forests?”
Kathleen Webster (University of New Mexico), “Assessing the Vulnerability of Island Endemic Herpetofauna to Environmental Change in the Comoros Archipelago.”
Morgan R. Muell (Auburn University), “Examining Geographic Variation in Developmental Plasticity in Anolis carolinensis.”
Laboratory research:
Teslin Chaney (The University of Texas El Paso), “Phylogenetics and Integrative Taxonomy of African Water Snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Grayia).”
Anna Bushong (Purdue University), “Using an Amphibian Model to Study the Effects of Forever Chemicals.”
Grace Vaziri (University of Connecticut), “Experimentally Testing how Past and Current Winter Conditions Shape pre-Hibernation and Immune Phenotypes in Wood Frogs.”
Rysa Thomas (James Madison University), “Characterization of Glucocorticoid and Mineralocorticoid Receptor Expression across a Seasonal Life-History Transition in the Red-Sided Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis.”
Undergraduate research:
Scott Kornfeind (Moravian University), “Understanding the Effects of Microplastics on Anuran Larval Development.”
Yucheol Shin (Kangwon National University, Korea), “Integrative Approaches to Resolve the Species Boundary between Elaphe anomala and Elaphe schrenckii (Serpentes: Colubridae): One Variable Species or Two Distinct Species?”
Field Research in Herpetology:
Savannah Weaver (California Polytechnic State University), “Assessing the Variability of Evaporative Water Loss and Hydration Across Species, Time, and Space.”
Brendan Enochs (University of Connecticut), “The Role of Forest Floor Microclimate Variation in the Maintenance of the Plethodon cinereus Color Polymorphism.”
Kentrell Richardson (James Madison University), “Understanding Context-Dependent Responses to Climate Change in Arizona Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum).”
Sarah Sexton (Southeastern Louisiana University), “Estimating the Sex Ratio of Hatchling Hawksbill Sea Turtles in Bocas del Toro, Panama.”
Education:
Mahamad Sayab (Tribhuvan University, Nepal), “Conservation of Snakes through Community Outreach Programs and School Teaching.”
Ashley Taylor (Zoo Atlanta), “Snakes of Metro Atlanta Identification Guide.”
Chair of the Roger Conant Grants-In-Herpetology, Roberto Brenes, would like to sincerely thank the SSAR-Roger Conant GIH Reviewers who all worked very hard. He greatly appreciates their time and effort.
Donald Brown (West Virginia University)
Grover Brown (Jacksonville State University)
Daniel Edwards (University of California, Merced)
Eric Gangloff (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Chris Gienger (Austin Peay State University)
Letecia Ochoa (UNAM, Mexico)
Beth Reinke (Northeastern Illinois University)
Dean Williams (Texas Christian University)