Student Scholarship - Previous Recipients

2022 Winner

Lasya Venigalla, University of Texas at Dallas

Research Topic: Object Based Image Classification Using Fully Convolution Neural Networks

2021 Winner

No scholarship offered for virtual meeting

2020 Winner

No scholarship offered for virtual meeting

2019 Winners

Brittany Bajo, Tennessee Technological University

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

 Logan Sleezer, Virginia Tech

Research Topic: 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

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

Ozark River drainages

2017 Winner

Isabel Faith Papraniku, Tennessee Technological University

Research Topic: Stream Biota Community Structure in an Intermittent Stream

2016 Winner

Kayla Key, University of Missouri Columbia

Research Topic: 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

Research Topic: Assessing Lake Sturgeon Spawning Habit on the Upper Tennessee River

2013 Winner

Shannon Chapin, University of Maine

Research Topic: Native Bee Abundance in Maine’s Wild Blueberries