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 by March 15, 2007 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

Past Scholarship Award Recipients

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 2214
Boulder, Colorado 80306

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