Environmental Center Seed Grants
The Environmental Center supports multidisciplinary research through two mechanisms, seed research grants and executive board initiatives. The former is intended to support new projects with potential for significant faculty advancement and outside funding. The latter emphasizes applications of science and technology to solving real world problems with potential for making significant impacts on our society at the local and state levels.
Seed Grants for up to $4,000 are available to faculty or teams of UNF personnel that include at least one tenure track faculty member. The grants are intended to facilitate the creation or maintenance of multidisciplinary projects related to environmental teaching and research. Seed grant funds may be used for faculty stipends, OPS wages for students, and allowable materials/expenses directly related to proposed project.
2012-13 Seed Grant Applications
Examples of Previous Seed Grant Applications
Determining Gopher Tortoise Burrow Occupancy Using a Robotic Camera 2010
Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River 2009
Dig in! Go Green! Fruit and Vegetable Gardening with Preschoolers 2009
Seed Grants awarded in 2012-2013
Dr. Keith Ashley; Negotiating the Tides: Shellfish Collecting at the Mill Cove Complex (AD 1000-1250)
Dr. Peter Bacopoulous; Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Beached Oil Tar Balls in Northeast Florida
Dr. Christopher Baynard; Determining Surface Disturbance Patterns Related to Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Activities in West Florida
Drs. Amy Lane and Thomas Mullen; Natural Products as Environmentally Friendly Inhibitors of Aquatic Biofilms
Dr. Heather Truelove; Spillover of Pro-Environmental Behavior
Seed Grants awarded in 2011-12
Drs. Katrina Hall, Lunetta Williams & Wanda Hedrick; Earth Matters Book Club: 3rd Graders and UNF Students
Drs. Quincy Gibson & Courtney Hackney; Abundance and Movement Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins within the Estuaries of Northeast Florida
Dr. Aiyin Jiang; Analysis of Thermal Features in Solar Shingle Roof
Dr. Cliff Ross; Impacts of Salt Water Intrusion on the Physiology and Biochemistry of Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Dr. Bart Welling; Osprey Eco-Films: An Environmental Documentary Series for UNF
Seed Grants awarded in 2010-2011
Drs. Joe Butler and Alan Harris, Determining Gopher Tortoise Burrow Occupancy Using a Robotic Camera
Dr. Julie Richmond, Dolphin Photo Identification in the Jacksonville Area
Dr. Tony Rossi, Proposal to Determine the Extent and Severity of Laurel Wilt Disease and the Decline of Redbay Trees on the UNF Campus
Seed Grants awarded in 2009-2010
Dr. Charles Closmann, Voices from the Stream: An Environmental History of the St. Johns River
Drs. Cheryl Fountain, Janice Hunter and Rebecca England, Dig In! Go Green! Fruit and Vegetable Gardening with PreSchoolers
Dr. Chris Johnson, Poverty and Homelessness: Improving Disadvantaged Communities through Sustainable, Urban Gardening
Dr. Erin Largo-Wight, The Refinement and Testing of an Instrument to Measure Health-Related Environmental Quality at Work: The Nature Contact Questionnaire
Dr. Cliff Ross, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Seagrass Susceptibility to Infection and Disease
Seed Grants awarded in 2008-2009
Dr. Joe Butler, Habitat Restoration Techniques to Enhance a Gopher Tortoise Population on the Campus of University of North Florida
Dr. James Gelsleichter, Multibiomarker Assessment of Fish Health in the Lower St. Johns River
Dr. Lori Lange, Transformational Encounters with the Natural Environment at UNF: Impacts on Environmental Identity, Affective Connectedness and Well-Being
Drs. Michael Lentz and Dale Casamatta, DNA Sequence Analysis of Aquatic Viruses from Lake Oneida
Dr. Daniel Moon, Biological Survey and Assessment of Lakes and Ponds on UNF Campus
Seed Grants awarded in 2007-2008
Dr. Joe Butler, Population Structure and Reproductive Ecology of Gopher Tortoises in the Pumpkin Hill Preserve
Drs. Hudyma, Guima, Krusienski & Harris, Remote Monitoring of Sinkhole Development in Dry Retention Ponds to Mitigate potential Groundwater Pollution
Drs. Michael Lentz and Dale Casamatta, Preliminary Characterization of Aquatic Viruses in Northeast Florida
Drs. Wood & Hunter, Ms. Gupton, Young Florida Naturalists, increases environmental background knowledge through concept mapping of 3- and 4-year olds
Seed Grants awarded in 2006-2007
Dr. Dale Casamatta, A Survey of the Planktonic Algal Community from the Sawmill Slough
Dr. Matt Gilg, Determination of the Dispersal Patterns of the Invasive Green Mussel
Dr. Dominik Güss, Cultural Differences in Coping During Hurricane Katrina
Dr. John Hatle, Testing Thresholds in Animal Development
Dr. Dan Moon, Development of a Restoration Plan for Betz Tiger Point Preserve
Dr. Tony Rossi, Utilization of Native Plant Communities to Reduce Toxic Runoff and Erosion along the Proposed UNF Eco-Friendly Roadway
