The Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance operates on a shoestring, yet we accomplish a huge amount. Our budget is approximately $5,000?for the whole year?and with that we manage to log more than 3,000 hours of volunteer effort in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Pennies count. If you would like to make a donation to help us with our work, it would be much appreciated. With $100, we can put two Volunteer Wilderness Hosts on the trail or make one trail rehabilitation project possible. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help us become better and better!
David Paddon Memorial
Scholarship
Boulder, Colorado
Award:
David Paddon, a geography student at the University of Colorado who did
research in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area, died in a climbing accident
in the Indian Peaks Wilderness in May 1990. This award honoring David
provides one to three scholarships up to $ 500.00 to eligible candidates.
Awards are announced by APRIL 30, 2006.
Eligibility:
Applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students in environmental
sciences, geography, biology, geology, or recreation whose research
focuses on human impact in the wilderness. The research topic should help
in providing a better understanding of the ecological environment and/or
wise management of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area. The scholarship will
be awarded based on the quality and merit of the research proposal, and on
the recommendation of the faculty advisor.
Application:
Send the following materials by email or U.S. mail to:
Joyce G. Gellhorn
Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance
112 Deer Trail Road
Boulder, CO 80302
jgellhorn@sprynet.com
1) A letter of application stating your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, university, college department, current degree program, and the name and phone number of your faculty advisor plus one other reference.
2) A research proposal -- no more than two pages stating in a clear and concise manner the research objectives, study area, overall experimental design, and the potential significance of the findings.
3) A proposed budget -- indicating how you would spend the scholarship award.
4) Two letters of support from faculty members including your major professor.
The Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance is a non-profit private organization dedicated to the protection and wise management of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area. For additional information, call Joyce Gellhorn, (303) 442-8123 or e-mail jgellhorn@sprynet.com
2011 Scott Ferrenberg: Mountain Pine Beetle.
2011 Jennifer Wilkening: Study of high alpine pikas.
2010 Scott Ferrenberg: Analysis on the increased production of the pine beetle.
2009 Justine Smith: Analysis of Pika food sources in the Indian Peaks.
2006 Katherine
Driscoll:
A Population Genetic Analysis of Big Horn Sheep in
Rocky Mountain National Park.
2005 Jessica Metcalf: Conservation
Genetics of the Federally Threatened Greenback Cutthroat Trout.
2004 Renee Culver: Conservation genetics study of Thomomys talpoides
(pocket gopher, one species of which lives in the Indian Peaks Wilderness)
2003 Colorado Fourteeners Initiative: Supporting research on alpine
restoration and revegetation above timberline.
2002
Two
Recipients
received $300 each.
Stacie Kageyama: Study of fungi on Niwot Ridge that help alpine plants
access nutrients such as nitrogen and carbon
Eric DeChaine: Finishing 2001 project, funds for DNA analysis
2001 Eric DeChaine: The effect of long-term climate change on
vegetation.
2000 Whitney
Johnson: Effects of recreational trails
on habitat use by ground beetles and small mammals.
1999 Mary Damm:
Patterns
of plant species diversity in the alpine tundra.
1999 David
Remucal: Environmental effects on the
reproductive ecology of alplily.
1998 Tara Forbis:
Sexual reproduction and genetic structure
in alpine plant communities.
1998 David Oline:
Diversity of Archaea along an elevational
gradient in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
1998 Christopher
Meloche: Carbohydrate partitioning and
preformation in an alpine forb, alpine avens.
For more information on
supporting the
Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance please contact us at:
Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance
PO Box 17382
Boulder, Colorado 80308-17382