Myrna Steinkamp Grant Recipients
2023 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winners
William Petry, Assistant Professor NC-State, “Fusing data sources across spatial scales for holistic demographic monitoring of the Avery Peak Twinpod (Physaria alpina)”: $1000
My-Lan Le, Master’s student at UC-Denver and Denver Botanic Garden, “Environmental Variation and Reproductive Ecology of a rare, endemic alpine plant (Physaria alpina): $1000
2022 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winners
2022 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winners
- Tiffany Gentry, Master’s student, University of Colorado Denver; “Inferring the phylogeny of Eutrema penlandii to inform conservation measures and understand the biogeographical history of the Rocky Mountains.” $1000
- Deannah Neupert, Ph.D. student, Miami of Ohio; “Floral production in Mimulus gemmiparus.” $700
- Jennifer Ackerfield, Denver Botanic Gardens; Pam Smith, Colorado Natural Heritage Program; Anthony Massaro, Jefferson County Open Space; and Mit McGlaughlin, University of Northern Colorado, “Mystery of the Misidentified Mustard.” $1000
2021 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winners
Steinkamp Grant Recipients:
Ross McCauley & Aurea Cortés-Palomec, $1550 for “Conservation genetic analysis of the rare Chapin Mesa Milkvetch (Astragalus schmolliae) from lands of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe”
Alexandra Seglias, $1025 for “How does increased temperature resulting from climate change affect the growth, reproduction, and survival of two rare Colorado alpine plants?”
Andrew Gaier, $1000 for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on a Rare Endemic Chasmophyte (Telesonix jamesii)
Denise Wilson, $500 for “Quantifying Epipactis gigantea Seed Set Within Plots Subjected to Three Canada Thistle Eradication Methods”
2020 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winners
The CoNPS Research Grants Committee has Chosen the Recipients for the 2020 Myrna Steinkamp Research Grants
Bronwyn Taylor $1,000 for: “The reproductive ecology of Astragalus microcymbus”
Emily Orr $1,000 for: “Population genomic analysis of the rare, narrow endemic Astragalus microcymbus”
Haley Carter $1,000 for: “Linalool production in Oenothera harringtonii (Onagraceae): From genome to gene-flow”
2019 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winner
2018 Myrna Steinkamp Research Grants Awarded
The CoNPS Research Grants Committee has announced the grant awards for the 2018 field season. Steinkamp grants are given for research projects studying rare plants in Colorado. Two grants were awarded.
A $1,000 grant was given to Ronald Abbott studying “Shoot Production in the Rare Alpine Calciphile Saussurea weberi“.
A $1,000 grant was given to Jennifer Ackerfield Assistant Curator and Ph.D. candidate at Colorado State University studying “The Evolution, Identification, and Protection of Colorado’s Rare Thistles”.
2017 Steinkamp Research Grant Awarded
Steinkamp Grant Awarded:
In 2017 a Myrna Steinkamp Grant of $1,000 was awarded to Richie Hum $1000 to study “Genetic Analysis of Aliciella penstemonoides using Microsatellite Markers”
2016 Steinkemp Grant Awarded
Kath Kleier announces the grant award for the Steinkamp Fund.
Zachary Cabin – University of California Santa Barbara, working with Scott Hodges:
Understanding the ecological conditions favoring the radical morphological mutant Aquilegia coerulea var. daileyae. $1000