Former Recipients of the PMCA's
Research and Conservation Grants

2005

Defenders of Wildlife
"Purple Martin Roost Mortality Monitoring at William B. Umstead Bridge Manns Harbor, NC"
$2500 awarded

2004

Mary Sebastian
University of Windsor (Ontario)
"Feeding Ecology and Bio-magnification of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Purple Martins"
$1250 awarded

Scott Rush
"The Influence of Adidified Precipitation, House Type, and Parental Age on the Productivity of Purple Martins: a Continent-wide, Multi-year Perspective"
$1250 awarded

2003

No grant applications received for 2003.

2002

Ms. Kelly A. Bettinger
Northwest Habitat Institute, Corvallis, Oregon
"Surveying Snag-nesting Purple Martins (Progne subis) in Upland Habitats of Western Oregon"
$1175 awarded

Stan Kostka
Western Purple Martin Working Group, Arlington, WA
"Purple Martin Reintroduction into the Northern Puget Sound of Washington State"
$575 awarded

Laura Darling, Tom Gillespie, J. Cam Finlay
Rocky Point Bird Observatory, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
"Genetic Discrimination of the Western Purple Martin: Towards a Conservation Strategy"
$750 awarded

2001

Scott W. Gillihan, Tammy VerCauteren, and Richard Levad
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, Fort Collins, CO
“Distribution, Abundance, and Breeding Habitat Characteristics of Tree-nesting Purple Martins in Colorado”
$500 awarded

Brian D. C. Williams
Sierra Community College, CA
“Purple Martins and (Very) Big Snags: Habitat Selection and Conservation Implications in California”
$1000 awarded

Malcolm Schug
Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Dr. Richard Wagner, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna, Austria
“Sexual Selection and Colony Formation in Purple Martins”
$500 awarded

Jebecca Jo Safran
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
“The Role of Individual Decisions in Forming Population-level Patterns: Female Reproductive Strategies and Variation in Social Behavior of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica).”
$500 awarded

2000

Dr. Mark Stanback
Department of Biological Sciences, Davidson College, North Carolina
"Hatching Patterns in Birds: Testing a Critical Assumption Using Purple Martins"
$500 awarded

Ms. Cheryl G. Ormston
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
"Hybridization in Culvert Nesting Swallows of Texas"
$250 awarded

Mr. Matthew F. Wasson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, New York
"An Experimental Investigation of Calcium Limitation in the Reproductive Biology of Tree Swallows"
$750 awarded

Mr. Brian D. C. Williams
Sierra College, California
"Purple Martins in California's Oak Woodlands: Population Status and Habitat Selection in the Tehachapi Range"
$1000 awarded

1999

Dr. Ricardo Rodriquez Estrella
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, S. C., Mexico
"Factors Influencing the Distribution of Purple Martins in Baja California Peninsula, Mexico"
$1500 awarded

1998

Dr. Ricardo Rodriquez Estrella
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, S. C., Mexico
"Factors Influencing the Distribution of Purple Martins in Baja California Peninsula, Mexico"
$1500 awarded

Mr. David R. Fouts
Naturalist Community, Oregon
"Enabling Scientific Study of Nesting Purple Martins Along the Lower Columbia River"
$500 awarded

1997

Mr. Jeffrey A. Davis
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
"Costs and Benefits of Coloniality in Purple Martins (Progne subis)"
$500 awarded

Mr. Christopher J. Grainer
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
"Assessing the Impact of Intensive Horticultural Practices on Purple Martins (Progne subis)"
$500 awarded

1996

Dr. Sidney Gauthreaux, Kevin Russell, and David Mizrahi
Clemson University, South Carolina
"WSR-88D Radar Mapping of Purple Martin (Progne subis) Pre-migratory Roosts Across the United States."
$500.00 awarded

Mr. Owen Moore
York University, Ontario
"The Evolution of Extra-pair Mating Systems and Behavior in Hirundinidae"
$1000 awarded

1995

Mr. Robert B. Hole, Jr.
Mississippi State University, Mississippi
"Geographic Variation in the Purple Martin"
$250.00 awarded

Mr. Paul E. Allen
Cornell University, New York
A Population Estimate and Feasibility of Nest Boxes as a Conservation Tool for the Bahama Swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis)
$750.00 awarded

1994

Dr. Douglas Carmichael
Pittsburg State University, Kansas
"Mitochondrial DNA Differences Among Progne subis Populations"
$750.00 awarded

1993

Mr. David R. Fouts
Naturalist Community, Oregon
"Erecting Martin Housing for Purple Martins in the Pacific Northwest"
$500.00 awarded