• Atlantic Ocean beach at Cape Cod National Seashore

    Cape Cod

    National Seashore Massachusetts

Nickerson Fellowship Past Recipients

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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?

Spadefoot Toad

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.