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Mia J. Tegner
Memorial Research
Grants in Marine
Environmental
History and
Historical Ecology
Eric Hanauer
Goals of Tegner Grant Program
“... no matter how well one understands kelp
populations, any current program will fail to
discern the ghosts of missing animals.”
(Dayton, Tegner et al. 1998)
• Fund research to reconstruct past population
or ecosystem states (historical baselines)
• Empower young natural and social scientists
to conduct short-term, high-impact research
directly relevant to conservation
Previous Tegner Grantees
• Drs. Catherine R. Samson and Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania in Hobart to study changes in
marine habitats in SE Tasmania since European
settlement by taking cores of in marine sediments;
• Angela M. Arnold of Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore MD, to study the history of Chesapeake Bay
food webs before overfishing for oysters and overnourishment in Chesapeake Bay caused drastic
ecosystem changes; and
• Dr. Peter Auster and Ivar Babb of University of
Connecticut-Avery Point and Dr. Les Watling of the
University of Maine, to study the historic distributions of
deep-sea corals off New England before destructive
bottom trawling became widespread.
Previous Tegner Grantees
2003 VOL
301 SCIENCE
• Joseph Roman25-JULY
Harvard
University
in Cambridge MA, to
use DNA sequencing to estimate populations of great
whales before they were killed off by commercial
whaling;
• Brian Wysor and Dr. Suzanne Fredericq - University of
Louisiana at Lafayette, to apply DNA sequencing
techniques to determine whether seaweed species off
Panama are natives or recent invaders;
• Susanna Fuller and Susan Gass - Dalhousie University
in Halifax Nova Scotia, to study of the status and
distribution of deepsea corals and sponges off
Newfoundland, Canada by interviewing fishermen about
the abundance of these crucial structure-forming species
before they were largely eliminated by bottom trawling;
Funding for Tegner Grants has
come to MCBI from
The Oak Foundation
2004 Mia J. Tegner Grants
• Deadline for proposals:
January 15, 2004
• Requests up to $6,000
• Individuals or teams from
academic institutions,
NGOs, governments
anywhere in the world
• Details www.mcbi.org
• email [email protected]