1996 PADI FOUNDATION GRANT

RECIPIENTS
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
1 Lic. Gustavo A. Distribution Movements $3,000 $2,500
Thompson and Conservation of La
Buenos Aires, Plata Dolphin
Argentina (Pontoporia Blaivillei)
in Anegada Bay,
Argentina
5 Julio Reyes Status of Small $4,450 $2,000
Talicahuano, Cetaceans Around
Chile Chiloe Island, Chile
9 Charles Wright Casino Point Scuba $1,000 $1,000
Catalina Island Trail
Conservancy
Avalon, CA
16 Alexander Stone Caribbean Reefs Rapid $5,000 $2,500
Reefkeeper Response Initiative
International
Miami, FL
17 Bruno Pernet Mechanisms of $6,500 $2,000
Friday Harbor Suspension Feeding by
Laboratories Polychaete Larvae
Friday Harbor,
WA
30 Edwin Effects of Shifting Reef $4,998.44 $2,250
Hernandez- Fish Populations on
Delgado, D.C. Coral Reef Benthic
University of Communities
Puerto Rico
Department of
Biology
Rio Piedras, PR
31 Charles Acosta Effect of Predation on $2,881 $2,881
Dept. of Caribbean Spiny
Biological Lobster Postlarval
Sciences Recruitment
Old Dominion
University
Norfolk, VA
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
32 David Jarvie/Tami The Effects of Riparian $3,878 $3,878
Bouloutian Forest Buffer Tree
Owen J. Roberts Species on the
Middle School Population and
Pottstown, PA Diversity of Macro
invertebrate Life in
French Creek, Chester
County, Pennsylvania
38 Hiliary Sill, Five Acres' Snorkeling $2,550 $2,550
Recreation Crusaders
Coord.
Five Acres
Altadena, CA
40 Elizabeth Irlandi Nutrient and Salinity $5,685 $2,700
University of Effects on Plant/Plant
Miami Interactions in Shallow
Miami, FL Subtropical Seagrass
50 Nicole Determination of $4,640 $4,640
Valenzuela Multiple Paternity in
Dept. of Ecology the Giant River Turtle
and Evolution Podocnemis Expansa
SUNY at Stony
Brook, NY
53 Mike Schaat Cabrillo Marine $2,500 $2,500
FRIENDS of Aquarium Project
Cabrillo Marine
Aquarium
San Pedro, CA
60 Ferruccio Study of a Halophila $4,500 $1,500
Maltagliati Stipulacea (Forssk.)
Stefano Acunto Aschers.
Universita Di Pisa (Hydrocharitaceae)
Dipartimento Di Meadow in the Western
Scienze Mediterranean Sea,
PISA (ITALY) Plany Phenology and
Associated Community
61 Pamela Scott Under the Water $914.46 $914.46
Brookmeade
Elementary
Memphis, TN
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
63 Dr. Su Sponaugle Larval Supply and $7,000 $3,200
Marine Sciences Recruitment Processes
Research Center of Caribbean Marine
State University Invertebrates
of New York
Stony Brook, NY
64 Michael Eatough Summer Discoveries $5,000 $5,000
Foundation and Program
Government
Grants Officer
New England
Aquarium
Boston, MASS
67 Michael Sixtus, Imperial Support for $5,000 $2,675
Science Dept. the Mar Vista Program
Mar Vista School
Imperial Beach,
CA
68 Steven C. The Open Waters Home $9,400 $2,000
Tremblay Page
Alpha One
S. Portland, ME
70 Tamar Liberman The Effect of the $3,370 $1,500
Dept. of Genotypic Composition
Biological of Symbiotic Algae on
Sciences the Survival and
State University Development of Soft
of New York Coral Larvae
Buffalo, NY (Planulae)
71 Caren Eckrich The Effects of $2,000 $2,000
Dept. of Marine Trampling on
Science Turtlegrass
Lajas, Puerto Rico
79 David Knight Increasing Diver $5,000 $5,000
Center for Marine Involvement in Marine
Conservation Conservation Through
Washington, D.C. Underwater Cleanup
and Conservation
Monitoring Program
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
83 Ingo Gaida Population Structure, $5,960 $3,000
Santa Monica Variation, and
High School Conservation Biology
Santa Monica, CA of the California
Grunion
85 Wallace Movement of the $5,600 $5,600
Nichols/Jeffrey Endangered Black Sea
Seminoff Turtle in the Gulf of
Wildlife Ecology California
School of
Renewable
Natural Resources
The University of
Arizona
Tucson, AZ
86 Julie Mann Role of Riverine $3,045 $3,045
George Mason Wetlands in Regulating
University the Ecological Integrity
Dept. of Biology of Stream Systems
St. Louis, MO
91 Peter Physical Complexity in $3,100 $3,100
Howd/Marshall Coral Reef
Hayes Environments
Duke University
Marine Lab
Beaufort, NC
92 Dr. David Carlon Long-Term Dynamics $1,325 $1,325
Riverside, CA in Caribbean Reef
Coral Assemblages at
Guana Island
94 Craig Heberer Quantitative $5,000 $4,000
University of Assessment of the
Puerto Rico Ornamental Reef Fish
Dept. of Marine and Marine Invertebrae
Science Aquarium Fisheries of
Lajas, PR Puerto Rico
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
100 Marian The Fen Ecosystem of $2,250 $2,250
Borgmann- the Nebraska Sand
Ingwersen Hills
Biology
Department
Wayne State
College
Wayne, NE
109 Shane Paterson Behavioral Ecology of $4,960 $3,250
Dept. of Zoology Great Barracuda in the
University of Florida Keys
Georgia
Athens, Georgia
111 Susan Scainetti, Rehabilitation $14,000 $2,000
Vice President Outreach Program
Handicapped
Scuba Association
New York, NY
114 Thomas Jett, Appreciation of the $6,000 $3,000
Science Underwater World
Instructor
San Pedro Marine
Science Magnet
San Pedro, CA
116 Richard Moon Investigation of $7,370 $7,370
Duke University Impaired Carbon
Medical Center Dioxide Elimination
Durham, NC During Scuba Diving
119 Todd Allen Phylogenetic Analysis $654 $654
Haney of Cyamid Amphipod
Grice Marine Crustacea
Biological Lab
Charleston, S.
Carolina
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
128 Maron Agnes Neurochemistry of CNS $5,000 $2,500
Groupe Oxygen Toxicity in the
Neuroscience Rat During HBO
Institut de Exposure
Medecine Navale
du Service de
Sante des Armees
Toulon Naval
France
132 Marie Levine, Whale Shark Study $9,586.50 $2,500
Director
Shark Research
Institute
Princeton, New
Jersey
135 Mara Morgan Genetic Analysis of the $4,194.26 $4,194.26
Dept. of Biology Populations of
California State California Halibut
University of Along the California
Northridge Coast
Northridge, CA
136 J. Holly Harpham Molecular and $2,737.52 $2,737.52
Dept. of Biology Phylogenetic
California State Relationships of the
University of Clingfish Using mtDNA
Northridge
Northridge, CA
137 Vladimir V. Diver-Controlled $4,284 $4,284
Kirillov, Ph.D. Investigation of the
Institute for the Natural Features of the
Water and Ecotone Ecosystems at
Environmental Lake Teleskoye, Siberia
Problems
Russian Academy
of Sciences
Barnaul, Russia
Request Recipient Name Project Funded AmountRequested GrantAmount
No.
138 Mikhail V. Propp Marine Sublittoral $4,000 $4,000
Institute of Sands as a Biological
Marine Biology Filter - Field Research
Academy of in Permeability,
Sciences of Environment
Russia Bioturbation and
Vladivostock, Productivity Using
Russia SCUBA in the Shallow
Shelf Waters of Japan
Sea
141 Suzanne Pleydell Taking Diving to the $8,000 $2,000
PADI Disabled
International Ltd.
Bristol, AVON
142 Steve Lonhart Ecological Impact of an $2,050 $2,050
Santa Cruz, CA Invading Whelk in
Monterey Bar, CA