2006 PADI FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENTS

Req. Amount Grant Recipient Name Project Funded No. Requested Amount

Identification of the Trigger of Coral Mr. Ross Hill 10 Bleaching and the Role of Photoprotective $3,440 $3,440 N.S.W., AUSTRALIA Mechanisms

Land use Effects on Freshwater Fish in Cecilia Y. Di Prinzio 19 Northwest Patagonia (Argentina): $3,500 $3,500 Esquel-Chubut, ARGENTINA Implications for Streams Conservation

Sheila S. Villamor Geographic Information System for Habitats 22 $2,500 $2,500 Iloilo, PHILIPPINES in Nogas Island Fish Sanctuary

Van Quan Nguyen Coral Reef Fish Diversity in Ha Long-Cat Ba Haiphong City, VIETNAM Marine Water: A Case Study to Search for a 26 $9,295 $5,000 Marine Protected Area in the Natural World Heritage Sites

Jacqueline Geurts North Shore, NEW Foraging and Breeding Ecology of the Blue 41 ZEALAND Penguin (Eudyptula minor iredalei) on Tiritiri $2,000 $2,000 Matangi Island, New Zealand

Marthen Welly Biology Diving Club Universitas Udayana 42 $4,260 $4,260 Bali, INDONESIA Bali-Indonesia

Alexander Sh. Khabidov Investigation of Links Between Air Nuclear Barnaul, RUSSIA 64 Tests and Aquatic Environment in the Arctic $5,600 $5,600 Ocean

Mariano Ignacio Martinez Reproduction of Two Sea Cucumbers Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 69 Populations of Psolus Patagonicus (Ekman, $1,700 $1,700 1925) Along the Argentine Coast

Rikki-Grobert Dunsmore Testing the Effectiveness of MPAs Using Santa Cruz, California Acoustic Tagging of Coral Reef Fishes in 70 $7,150 $7,150 Votua Village Fiji: A Community-Based Project Req. Amount Grant Recipient Name Project Funded No. Requested Amount

Lucy Gallagher Stipends to Build Local and Regional Akumal, Quintana Roo Capacity in Coastal Ecosystem Conservation 84 MEXICO $6,800 $6,800 and Management along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System

Reef Fishes as Indicators of Anthropogenic Renatto Grotta Grempel 86 Impact on the Picaozinho Reef (Paraiba, ne $960.00 $960.00 Joao Pessoa, BRASIL Brazil)

Krystyna Saunders Human Impacts on Southeast Australian Hobart, Tasmania Coastal Lagoons and Shallow Bays Since 97 AUSTRALIA $1,295 $1,295 European Settlement Towards Future Conservation and Management

Bruno Gustavo Santos Tenorio da Silva Two-Months Training Program on Taxonomy 98 $2,070 $2,070 Recife - Pernambuco - of Octorals BRASIL

Eva Charlotte Elisabet Kvennefors Immune Systems of Reef Building Corals-Why 109 $7,255 $7,255 St. Lucia QLD are Corals Getting Sick AUSTRALIA

Shany Mayumi Nagaoka Monitoring Sea Turtle by Catch by Fence Sao Paulo - SP Fixed Trap (Fishing Corral) in Lake-Estuary 113 BRAZIL $4,620 $4,620 Complex of Iguape-Cananeia, Southern Coast of Sao Paulo State, Brazil

Kimberley Pavyer The Impacts of Tar and Plastic Marine 118 $2,591.16 $2,591.16 Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Pollution on Seabirds in the Argyll Sea

Belinda A. Longakit 124 Marine Sponges (Porifera) of the Philippines $9,600 $3,200 Cebu City, PHILIPPINES

The Role of Sub-Tidal Creeks in Feeding and Coastal Carolina University Growth Rates of Juvenile Atlantic Sharpnose 136 [Mary K. Maxwell, Candidate] $7,500 $7,500 Sharks, Rhizoprionodon terranovae in North Conway, South Carolina Inlet, SC Req. Amount Grant Recipient Name Project Funded No. Requested Amount

Development Program of Coastal Rignolda Djamaluddin Environment Curriculum for Primary School 145 $7,500 $5,000 Mandao, INDONESIA in Bunaken National Park, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Ayax rolando Diaz-Ruiz Coral Bleaching and its Impact on Reef 151 $1,426.25 $1,426.25 Brisbane, QLD AUSTRALIA Fauna Associated to Corals

John B. Culpepper Friends of Cabrillo Marine 2006 Summer High School Research 160 $5,000 $5,000 Aquarium Internships in Marine Science San Pedro, California

Arnel B. Arreglado Marine Environmental Education Project for 169 $3,315 $3,315 Tallahassee, Florida Elementary Students

Jessica Tuharsky Productivity of an herbivorous Fish Girella 175 $500 $500 Castaic, California nigricans

CEDO [Ham Nalini Morzaria Luna Analysis of Food Web Dynamics in Coastal 190 $9,780 $7,000 Ph.D, Candidate] Wetland of the Gulf of California Sonora, MEXICO

Jorge Gutierrez Comparative Analysis of Litter Retention and 197 $2,357.83 $2,357.83 Millbrook, New York Processing in Argentinean Salt Marshes

Vincent A. Duenas Establishment and Management of a 204 Surigao del Sur, $6,370 $6,370 Community-Led Marine Protected Area PHILIPPINES

Chris Poonian Status and Distribution of the 206 $8,442.25 $5,000 London, UNITED KINGDOM Dugong(Dugong dugon) in the Comoros

Nenibarini Zabbey Ecological Survey of Macrobenthic Choba, Rivers State Intvertebrates and Population Dynamics of 207 NIGERIA $3,590 $3,590 the bloody Cockle (Anadara senilis) in the Creek Complex of Bodo

Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro de Oliveira Population Ecology of the Longsnout 214 Joao Pessoa, PB, BRAZIL Seahorse Hippocampus Reidi (Teleostei: $4,275 $4,275 Syngnathidae) in Pernambuco, Brazil

Req. Amount Grant Recipient Name Project Funded No. Requested Amount

Heather S. Gailbraith Reproductive Timing and Success of 221 $7,109.71 $7,109.71 Norman, Oklahoma Freshwater Mussels

Branwen Williams Do Deep-Water Corals Record Ocean 225 Columbus, Ohio $10,240 $10,240 Upwelling? Caracas, VENEZUELA

Friends of "The Map" La Jolla Park and Recreation, "The Map" An interpretative Rendering of The 240 Inc. La Jolla Shores Underwater Park and $5,000 $1,000 [Mary Coakley, Candidate] Ecological Reserve La Jolla, California

Museum of Science, Inc. [Jennifer Fields, Vice- IMPACT: Marine Science and Environmental 242 $5,600 $5,600 President] Education for Undeserved Youth Miami, Florida

David Bruce Conn, Changes in Distribution and Abundance of Rome, Georgia Native Caddisflies and Invasive Benthic 251 $4,340 $4,340 Species in the St. Lawrence River: A 10-year Follow-up Study

Derek A. Burkholder Predator-Prey Interactions, Foraging Ecology Miami, Florida and Stable Isotope Analysis of Green Sea 253 $5,620 $4,620 Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Levi Steele Lewis The Effects of Trophic Diversity on Ecosystem 257 $5,000 $5,000 San Diego, California Function in a Subtropical Seagrass Habitat

Etnobiology and Environmental Education of Carolina Figueroa Forero 259 Podocnemis unifiilis in La Pedrera Amazonas. $2,843.87 $2,500 Bogota, COLUMBIA (la Pedrera: Columbia)

Florida Institute of Technology Development of Field and Laboratory [Ralph G. Turnigan, Associate Modules for a Philippine Course in Marine 280 Professor] $5,000 $5,000 Fisheries Biology: "Towards a Sustainable Melbourne, Florida Fisheries in the Philippines

Req. Amount Grant Recipient Name Project Funded No. Requested Amount

Mairead E. Maheigan The Functional Significance of Morphological Reseda, California Variation of the Pacific Coral Pocillopra 281 $1,459 $1,000 verrucosa for Physiological Processes Driven by Boundary Layer Dimensions

Lewis A.K. Barnett Life History of the White-Spotted Ratfish, 285 $5,795 $5,795 Moss Landing, California Hydrolagus colliei (Lay and Bennett, 1839)

Jason S. Goldstein Durham, New Hampshire Evidence for Sperm Limitation in American Lobster (Homarus americanus): Comparison 289 $1,200 $1,200 of Fished Populations from Estuarine, Coastal and Offshore Areas of New Hampshire

Nyawira Muthiga Enhancing Community Capacity for Marine 292 Wildlife Conservation Society $10,000 $5,000 Conservation in Kenya Mombasa, KENYA

Paola Andrea Majia Falla Cali, Valle del Cauca Population Dynamic and Habitat use of the COLUMBIA Whitetip Skark (Triaenodon obesus, Whale 319 Shark (Rhincodon typus) and Manta Ray $4,500 $4,500 (Manta brostris) in Gorgona National Natural Park, Colombian Pacific

Norma Sanchez Tapia Assessment of Exotic Fish Populations and 324 $8,861 $8,861 San Jose del Cabo, MEXICO Eradication in a Coastal Wetland

Octocoral Biodiversity in the Chilean- Dr. Verena Haeussermann 325 Patagonian Fjord Region and Zoogeographic $5,145 $5,145 Valdivia, CHILE Implications

Iwona Conlan The Geomorphology of Pools on the Lower- The University of Melbourne Mekong River in Southeast Asisa and The 330 VIC, AUSTRALIA $14,220 $5,000 Transboundary Impacts of International River Basin Development

Erin R. Graham The Transfer of PCBs into Holothruians via 341 $3,000 $3,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Plastic Particles