[Christopher Cosma, graduate student in the UCR Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) department received a California Native Plant Society award for his work on linking plant-plant interactions with plant-pollinator interactions in California’s Colorado Desert.]
Each year, CNPS awards education grants to student researchers focused on California native plants. We were amazed at the number and caliber of applicants for the CNPS research grants this year, which also means our committee had to make some tough decisions. It gives us such hope that important work in the botanical field continues to be explored and researched year after year. CNPS is proud to present this year’s grant recipients, and we wish to thank the generous donors who’ve made these grants possible!
Meet the awardees
Research: Exploring the Evolution of Serpentine Tolerance Between Two Closely Related Species of Mimulus
Award: Doc Burr Grant
Research: Rare Plant Conservation Plan for Monardella eremicola (Clark Mountain Monardella)
Award: Doc Burr Grant
Research: Linking plant-plant interactions with plant-pollinator interactions in California’s Colorado Desert
Award: Helen Sharsmith Grant
Research: Exploring diversity in the ashes of the Thomas Fire: A vascular flora of the upper Sespe Creek watershed, Ventura County, California
Award: Natalie Hopkins Award
Research: Origins and Maintenance of Species Boundaries in Two Northern California Monkeyflowers
Award: Hardman Native Plant Research Award
Research: Taxonomy and conservation of the genus Malacothamnus (Malvaceae)
Award: Helen Sharsmith Grant
Research: A vascular flora of the southern Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, California
Award: Natalie Hopkins Award
Research: How do climate-related phenological shifts affect plant-pollinator interactions in two northern California habitat types?
Award: Natalie Hopkins Award
Research: Flora of Coyote Ridge and Coyote Flat, Inyo County, CA
Award: Helen Sharsmith Grant
Research:Rethinking ecological tolerance in an invaded serpentine grassland
Award: G. Ledyard Stebbins Award
Research: Dispersal Dynamics of a Brackish Tidal Marsh, in the Context of the Federally Endangered Suisun Thistle (Cirsium hydrophilum var. hydrophilum)
Award: Hardman Native Plant Research Award
Research: A Vascular Flora of the Salmon and Manter Creek Watersheds on the Kern Plateau, Tulare County, California
Award: Natalie Hopkins Award
Thank you the 2019-2020 Education Grants Committee for their expertise and thoughtful review.
Steve Schoenig – Chair
David Keil
Steven Serkanic
Nick Jensen
Amy Patten
Education Grants are due on October 31 each year. Chapters and partners offer grants throughout the year. Learn more about student grants.
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