Lacawac Sanctuary Research Grants
Review of applications will begin on April 15 of each year
Robert Estabrook Moeller Research Fellow Award
Robert was born in Chicago in 1949 and grew up roaming the hills and fields of western Pennsylvania. He went to high school at Shadyside Academy in Fox Chapel PA and did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College. He earned his PhD from Cornell University in Aquatic Ecology, followed by postdoctoral work in Paleolimnology at the University of Minnesota and in Aquatic Ecology at Michigan State. His career involved positions at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Lehigh University, and most recently Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Many years of his life were dedicated to work on Lake Lacawac and other lakes in the Poconos of northeastern Pennsylvania.
From his earliest childhood Robert spent each day in active pursuit of knowledge. His unquenchable and wide ranging curiosity about matters from reptiles and bugs to fossils and rocketry as a child, through nature, history, music, culture, politics, literature, languages, and geography made asking him a question its own reward. It is the intention of the Robert Estabrook Moeller Memorial Fund to support promising young scholars in limnology with bright, inquisitive minds who will perpetuate this search for knowledge. Robert’s generosity extended to his establishing an endowed fund which will support Robert Estabrook Moeller Research Fellow awards to college and university students and faculty to do limnological research on Lake Lacawac and other Pocono region lakes. |
Previous Recipients
2018: Dr. Alyson Thibodeau, Dickinson College Investigation of Lead Isotopes as Chronostratigraphic Markers for Lake Sediments in Northeastern Pennsylvania 2018: Dr. James R. Dearworth, Jr. , Lafayette College Ecophysiological Evidence for the Ability of red-eared slider Turtles to Adapt to Hypoxic Environmenta 2017: Dr. Elise Heiss, King's College Nitorgen Cycling in Lake Lacawac: Investigating Environmental Controls on Water Column Nitrification 2017: Rachel Pilla, Miami University in Ohio Mapping the Metabolic Landscape for Threatened Zooplankton Taxa in Lakes 2016: Dr. Christopher Dempsey, Gannon University The role of photochemical reactions and microbial degradation in the oxidation of dissolved organic carbon in Lake Lacawac 2015: Jennifer Brentrup, Miami University of Ohio A comparison of the fate of terrestrial dissolved organic matter in temperate vs. sub-tropical lakes 2014: Dr. Robyn Smyth, Bard Center for Environmental Policy Understanding changes in lake thermal structure: preliminary physical analysis of Lakes Lacawac and Giles |
Isabel and Arther Watres Student Research Award
The grant will support the expenses of college or university students whose research deals, in whole or substantial part, with the natural resources (biological or physical) of the Lacawac Sanctuary. Priority in expending funds will be given to supporting the costs of residence at Lacawac and/or the research user fees of undergraduate students. Only after appropriate support of those costs will consideration be given to supporting the costs of research supplies or materials, or to funding the research expenses of graduate students. Awards generally range from $300 - $700. |
Previous Recipients
2016: Ariek Norford, Franklin and Marshall College Changes in dissolved organic matter and impacts on dissolved oxygen and zooplankton 2016: Sarah Magyan, Gannon University The role of photochemical reactions and microbial degradation in the oxidation of terrestrially dervied dissolved organic carbon in temperate lakes 2015: Taylor Leach, Miami University of Ohio Living in a multidimensional world: Exploring the mechanisms that link vertical and horizontal habitat selection of zooplankton using acoustic techniques 2015: Tiffany Chin, Dickinson College Seasonal changes in the algal community of Lake Lacawac 2012: Jeffrey Babb, Miami University of Ohio 2007: Adam Heinze, Temple University Characterizing the mixotrophy of Dinobryon |
