Grants, awards and contracts

• Collaborative Research: The GA-VSC Herbaria Collaborative: Phase I of a Statewide Consortium. National Science Foundation, Biological Research Collections, Award #1054366, $199,336; 2011-2013.

• Survey of known and potential populations of pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) and pondspice (Litsea aestivalis) in Georgia; funded by Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program, $20,000; 2008-2009.
• Effects of Prescribed Burning on Representative Forest Communities at Moody Air Force Base and Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area, Lowndes and Lanier counties, Georgia; cooperative agreement (five years) with Moody Air Force Base, Department of Defense; $157,000; 2007-2111.
• Status Survey and Search Efforts for American Chaffseed ( Schwalbea americana) in Georgia; funded by Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program, $18,800; 2007-2008.
• Flora of Camden County, Georgia, with Emphasis on Crooked River State Park; Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Grant funded by the Georgia Botanical Society, $1,500; 2006.
• Federal Noxious Weed Survey: Orobanche minor; funded by USDA-APHIS through University of Georgia (Tifton), $3,000; 2004.
• Federal Noxious Weed Survey: Orobanche minor; funded by USDA-APHIS through University of Georgia (Tifton), $2,500; 2003.
• Vegetation Survey: Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area; funded by Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $4,000; 2003.
• Rare Plant and Plant Community Survey of Kings Bay Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Georgia, funded by D.O.D. through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, $19,500; 1996-1997.

• Status Survey of Lilium iridollae in Georgia, funded by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, $1,000; 1994.

• Status Survey of Cyperus louisianensis; funded by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, $2,500; 1993.

• Floristic and Rare Plant Inventory of Moody Air Force Base and Grassy Pond Recreational Area, Lowndes and Lanier counties, Georgia; funded by the U.S. Air Force through The Nature Conservancy of Georgia, $7,500; 1993-1994.

• Status Survey of Cyperus cephalanthus funded by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, $5,000; 1992-1993.

• Floristic Inventory of Fort Stewart, Georgia; funded by the U.S. Army through The Nature Conservancy of Georgia, $8,500; 1992.

• Research Opportunity Award, National Science Foundation, to work on Flora of North America Project at Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis; 1989.

• Floristic Inventory of Pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) site in Wheeler County, Georgia; funded by The Nature Conservancy of Georgia, $500; 1987.

• Thesis-parts appointment, Argonne National Laboratory, to use scanning electron microscope; 1981.

• Floristic Inventory of Taylor Hollow, Sumner County, Tennessee; The Nature Conservancy, $1,500; 1980.

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