Lacawac is now accepting applications for the 2024 Isabel and Arthur Watres Student Research Award
Applicants can be undergraduate students at any stage of their degree program. Students must be advised by a faulty member, graduate student, or post-doc. Preference will be given to scholars who are new Lacawac users or are starting new projects, and who request funding to cover Lacawac lodging, lab, and/or boat fees. Awards are up to $500 but are generally ~$250.
2020 A. Watres Student Research Fellows
Benjamin Harris, Bard College
Advisor: Robyn Smyth, Bard College
Assessing phytoplankton of the surface and deep chlorophyll maxima of Lake Lacawac
Isabel & Arthur Watres
Lacawac Sanctuary exists because of L. Arthur Watres and his mother Isabel Reyburn Watres. The Watres family owned the land the Sanctuary now occupies since 1913. Both Arthur and Isabel were dedicated conservationists and formed the Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation in 1966. They wanted Lacawac to be a “living laboratory” where scientists could conduct research and train the next generation. To further this vision, Lacawac Sanctuary offers financial support for undergraduate research in the form of the Isabel & Arthur Watres Student Research Fund.
Previous Recipients
2020
Doan Nguyen, Miami University of Ohio
Visualizing high-frequency data at Lacawac through interactive web application
Jakub Zegar, Drexel University
Revisiting Lacawac Sanctuary’s herpetofaunal biodiversity, with particular focus on salamanders (Urodela)
2019
Mikaela Martiros, Bard College
Assessing the DOM contribution of surface inflows into Lake Lacawac during summer storm events
Mitchell Campbell, University of South Florida
Survey at Lacawac Sanctuary: To help define the ecology of the red-eared slider turtles, Trachemys scripta elegans
2016
Ariek Norford, Franklin and Marshall College
Changes in dissolved organic matter and impacts on dissolved oxygen and zooplankton
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
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