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RECENT GRANTS
2006 California Desert Research Fund
Spring Docket Grant Recommendations
The California Desert Research Fund (CDRF) supports graduate student scientific research that contributes to the understanding and conservation of desert parks, wildernesses, and other ecologically significant open spaces in the California Desert in San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, and Imperial Counties.
Applicant Name
University
Title of Research Project
Amount
Crews, Sarah UC Berkeley Understanding the Disjunct Distribution of the Salt-Flat Endemic Spider Saltonia incerta $3,024
Evanhoe, Laurelin Cornell University Plant-pollinator interaction webs in the East Mojave Desert $4,000
Garcia, Anna CA State University, Fullerton Geochronology and paleo-environment of pluvial Harper Lake, Mojave Desert, CA $3,450
Keller, Fran UC Davis Revision of Stenomorpha Solier 1836 $1,861
Kempton, Elizabeth Claremont Graduate Univ. Systemic analysis of subfamily Eriogonoideae using molecular, anatomical and morphological evidence $2,500
Paape, Tim University of San Diego Molecular evolution and population genetics of self-incompatibility in native California Papaveraceae plant species $1,369
Shurtliff, Quinn Idaho State University Dynamics of a newly discovered desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) hybrid zone in Southern California $2,347
Van Dam, Alex and Matthew UC Riverside Biogeography and Ecology of Dune Endemic Insects $3,450
Worth, Jenny L. CA State Univ., San Bernardino Rock Art Research and Geographic Information $2,055
Total     $24,056
       

 

 
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