GeckoWatch is a community science project that aims to map the fine-scale distribution of nonnative geckos in the continental United States. The project is an outgrowth of a collaborative effort by the Espinoza and Jeanne Robertson labs (CSUN), Aaron Bauer (Villanova University), Heather Liwanag (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), and Greg Pauly (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) to examine what factors are allowing the Mediterranean House Gecko to be such a successful and rapidly-expanding colonizer. Click here to learn more about GeckoWatch.

Research Grants for Graduate Students
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February: American Museum of Natural History Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant ($3500)
February: CSUN: California Pre-Doctoral Program
February: CSU: Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement ($12,000)
March & October: Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research ($1000)
March: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Frederick and Helen Gaige Award ($1000)
March: Peter Bellinger Student Research Award ($1000)
March: American Society of Naturalists Grants-in-Aid of Research ($1500)
March: CSUN: Dr. Bob Luszczak DDS Graduate Scholarship (up to $1000)
March: CSUN: Newhall Land & Farming Company Southern California Ecology Grant ($1000)
March: CSUN: Association of Retired Faculty Memorial Award ($2000)
March: CSUN: Nathan O. Freedman Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Student ($2000)
March: CSUN: Leslie Family Scholarship in Biology ($1500)
April: International Herpetological Symposium  ($1000)
April: CSUN: CSM Graduate Fellowship for Outstanding Promise in Research in Science and Mathematics ($5000)
May: CSUN: Graduate Equity Fellowship Program ($4000)
October: CSUN: Thesis/Dissertation/Project/Performance Support Program ($1000)
October: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
October: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Grant-in-Aid of Research ($1000)
November: Explorers Club Exploration Fund Grant ($5000)
December: Herpetologists’ League E. E. Williams Grant ($1000)
December: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles ($500)