Nickerson Fellowship Past Recipients
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Back to ARC - Internship and Fellowship Opportunities Past Recipients 2010 Scott Buchanan - graduate student, Montclair State University - Spatial Ecology and Habitat Utilization of the Eastern Hognose Snake 2009 Taylor Harvey - undergraduate, Wellesly College - Sediment Characterization of the Herring River Restoration Area 2008 Jessie Wheeler - graduate student, Antioch University - $3,700 Evaluating Suitable Habitat for Native Halophyte Establishment Using Prescribed Burning in a Restored Salt Marsh on Cape Cod, Massachusetts 2007 Ethan Estey – graduate student, University of Rhode Island - $3,000 Recreational Angler Creel Survey of Outer Cape Beach Access 2006 Todd Tupper extension - no additional stipend 2005 Todd Tupper - PhD Candidate, George Mason University - $3,500 Habitat Variables Influencing Breeding Effort in Northern Clade Bufo fowleri 2004 Cate O’Keefe extension – no additional stipend 2003 Cate O’Keefe – graduate student, Boston University Marine Program - $2,500 Habitat Suitability for the Alewife in East Harbor 2001 Whitney Kurz - undergraduate, Duke University - $2,500 Impacts of Biomedical Bleeding on Horseshoe Crabs 1999 Brett Still - intern at Wellfleet Audubon Sanctuary - $2,500 Systematic Inventory of Park Amphibians (joint project of Audubon and CACO Inventory Monitoring Program) 1997 - '98 Jean Poitras - graduate student, UMASS at Boston - $2,000 Cases of Intergovernmental Cooperation Between the National Park Service and Local Governments 1995 Aria Brissette - '95 graduate, University of Rhode Island (SCA) - $1,000 Pond Restoration and Impact Assessment Plan 1994 Todd Rinaldi - undergraduate, Unity College, ME (SCA) - $1,000 Kettle Pond Hydrology - Gull Pond, Duck Pond, Wellfleet 1993 Scott Shumway - 2nd year award, same topic $1,000 + $1,000 match from NPS "Challenge Cost-share Program" 1992 Scott Shumway - Professor, Wheaton College - $1,000 Species Interactions in Dune Plants, CACO |
Did You Know?
An abundance of sandy soil and shallow freshwater ponds for breeding make Cape Cod National Seashore an ideal landscape for Spadefoot Toads. A Threatened Species, the Seashore supports their largest known population in the Northeast. Some park roads are closed on rainy nights to protect them.