Student Scholarship - Previous Recipients

2023 Winner

Kyle Watts, Colorado State University

Advancing Insights on Remote and Endangered Species with Technology

2023 OFWIM President Amy Martin (right) presents Kyle Watts (center) and his advisor Minh Nguyen (left) with the 2023 OFWIM Scholarship Award

2022 Winner

Lasya Venigalla, University of Texas at Dallas

Object Based Image Classification Using Fully Convolution Neural Networks

2020 - 2021 

No scholarship offered for virtual meeting

2019 Winners

Brittany Bajo, Tennessee Technological University

Modeling fundamentally suitable freshwater mussel habitat in the Duck River drainage, Tennessee

 Logan Sleezer, Virginia Tech

Partitioning the effects of changing land use and introduced species on spatiotemporal abundance

trends and biotic homogenization in native fish communities of New River tributary systems

2018 Winner

Jordan Holtswarth, Tennessee Technological University

Assessing the association between freshwater mussel beds and hydrogeomorphic features in two

Ozark River drainages

2017 Winner

Isabel Faith Papraniku, Tennessee Technological University

Stream Biota Community Structure in an Intermittent Stream

2016 Winner

Kayla Key, University of Missouri Columbia

A tool for identifying potential threats to species on a landscape level: an example geared toward

freshwater mussels in Missouri

2015 Winner

Daniel Walker, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Assessing Lake Sturgeon Spawning Habit on the Upper Tennessee River

2013 Winner

Shannon Chapin, University of Maine

Native Bee Abundance in Maine’s Wild Blueberries