From: Blair Witherington To: Cathy Colwell Subject: Re: research grants Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 9:57 AM Cathy Colwell wrote: > > Mr. Witherington ... > > I am the faculty advisor to a group of students involved in an > internet science fair research project. I wrote to your earlier about > our project at the end of October. We have made some good progress > and have narrowed our investigation to researching a light meter which > would measure light pollution as it affects nesting sea turtles and > hatchlings. We have read your material in TurtleTime and noticed all > of your footnote references, but we could not find the actual > bibliography entries. Could you take a moment and list a few of the > federal, state, local, or private grant monies that either you or your > organization has received to do research on the sea turtles and/or > lighting pollution. > > Component #1 requires that we know the amount of the grant, the > funding agency, the principal investigator, the duration of the grant > and the outcome of the investigation. > > Cite three detailed examples of research (in the past 3-5 years) which > have focused on the NCT application your team selected. Include the > funding agency, Principal Investigator, institution where the reseach > is being conducted, amount of the dollar award and duration of the > research. > > Based upon an analysis of the three projects selected and what has > been accomplished, select a specific research project that your team > would recommend for continuation funding and why. > > Before we are through with this component we are to find out about as > many as three of these research grants, and we are to summarize them > in a 200-300 word paragraph. > > Unfortunately, we are on a tight timeline. Our workday is Tuesday, > January 5th. > Can you help us with some information? > > Thank-you, > Cathy Colwell Cathy, Below is a summary of grants for work on lights and turtles copied from another document. The work is summarized in a technical report (part of which you found on the web). Please forward your address and I will send it to you. I was the principal investigator (PI) for the following projects unless otherwise noted. Projects were done through the University of Florida (1987-1992) and the Florida Marine Research Institute, Department of Environmental Protection (1993-present). Best wishes, Blair 1988. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant: Periodicity of the nest emergence behavior of hatchling loggerhead turtles. $ 7500. Co-PI with K. Bjorndal 1988. Florida Power and Light Company grant: Photic orientation behavior in loggerhead hatchlings and mitigation of hatchling mortality caused by artificial beachfront lighting. $ 30,000. Co-PI with K. Bjorndal 1989. The following grants provided support for a study of the effect of artificial lighting on the nesting behavior of green turtles and loggerheads. Caribbean Conservation Corporation, $ 1500 in-kind grant for housing at Tortuguero, Costa Rica Florida Power and Light Company, $ 3000 Greenpeace, $ 6000 United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $ 5000 1990. Florida Power and Light Company grant: A study of sea turtle hatchling disorientation at Delray Beach, Florida. $ 745 1990-1991. United States Air Force grant: Dispersal of hatchling sea turtles off Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida: assessing and minimizing hatchling disorientation from artificial lighting. $ 110,000. Co-PI with K. Bjorndal 1992-1994. United States Air Force grant: An evaluation of the use of dune structure to reduce effects of artificial lighting on hatchling sea turtle sea-finding and offshore orientation. $ 50,000. PI, with K. Bjorndal and A. Bolten as Co-PI 1994. United States Navy grant: Assessment of coastal lighting at the sea turtle nesting beach, Mayport Naval Station, Florida. $ 10,990. 1992-1998. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, six annual ESA section 6 grants: Sea turtle hatchling orientation research, assessment of the effectiveness of sea turtle lighting ordinances, production of a manual outlining solutions to light pollution problems on sea turtle nesting beaches. $ 265,000. Co-PI with Barbara Schroeder and Allen Foley -- Blair Witherington, Ph.D. Florida Department of Environmental Protection Florida Marine Research Institute 9700 South A1A Melbourne Beach, Florida 32951 USA E-Mail: spinnaker@prodigy.net Phone: 407-674-1801 FAX: 407-674-1804