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Two Graduate Students Receive Awards to Support Field Work
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| Graduate student and FRA Kelley O’Neal has been selected for the Ariel Appleton Fellowship, a grant of $2,000 that will be used to support her fieldwork this summer.
Kelley is currently working on her doctoral research on the influence of precipitation variability, grazing and fire management on shrub encroachment in the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands.
The purpose of the Ariel Appleton Research Fellowship is to support non-destructive research in conservation ecology focused on species, communities, ecosystems, or human ecology in the grassland, savanna, and riparian areas of the Southwest. | 
Site of Kelley’s field work in the Chihuahuan grasslands |
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| Graduate Student Karl Wurster has been awarded a grant to support the duration of his field research in Senegal from the Ruffords Small Grants Foundation, a funding source that aims to support small conservation programs and pilot projects. Karl, along with two field assistants, will conduct field surveys in the Tambacounda region of Senegal in order to help better understand the regeneration of trees in charcoal production areas.
His team will be visiting areas within management zones (government forests, co-managed government/community forest parks, and traditional community forests) with known charcoal production and
collecting data on which tree species are there, how long it has been since they have been harvested, and which trees and at what rate are trees growing back. While in the bush and in the village Karl and his team will be interviewing local villagers who have extensive knowledge about the forest near to their village and the methods that were and are being used to produce charcoal. For more information, visit his blog, “Notes from the Tamba Bush” (complete with video of his field sites) at: http://senegalcharcoal.blogspot.com/ |
Site of Karl’s field work in the Tamba Bush, Senegal |
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