"Minigrants" of $500 are awarded by the Natural Area Advisory Committee to students or student groups who wish to undertake projects that enhance the information infrastructure of the Natural Area Teaching Laboratory or will improve access to what is already known.
Current program
In 2012, UF’s Natural Area Advisory Committee [NAAC] will award up to two minigrants of $500 each to fund projects that enhance the information infrastructure of the Natural Area Teaching Laboratory [NATL]. We seek projects that will produce useful new information about NATL or will improve access to what is already known.
Who is eligible? UF students, or groups of UF students with a designated leader.
Requirements: The student or group, and sponsor, must prepare an application and submit an electronic version by email and a signed paper copy by campus mail. The application deadline is Thursday February 9th, 2012.
2012 minigrant program
Announcement and How to apply PDF MS Word
Past programs, awards, and results
2009-10 minigrant program
Announcement PDF
How to apply PDF MS Word
Minigrant awarded 2 March 2010
Proposal to enhance the information infrastructure of the SEEP area of NATL
PIs are Gabriella S. Mendez, Aubrey M. Tennyson, and Samantha J. Woodward; faculty sponsor is Susan K. Jacobson.
Final version of wading bird sign, November 2010
Final version of tree frog sign, December 2010
Minigrant awarded 9 December 2009
Removal and diet of the nonindigenous Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrinalis)...
PI is Michael C. Granatosky; faculty sponsor is Kenneth L. Krysko.
Because NATL's Cuban Treefrogs suffered high or complete mortality during the severe winter of 2009-10, the grant proposal was rewritten
and given a new title. The revised proposal was approved by NATL's Operations Committee on 1 July 2010.
Habitat selection, ontogenetic shifts, and microhabitat refugia: A study of ... hylids in a diverse study site.
Final report, December 2010
Additional product: Osteopilus septentrionalis prey.
2009 minigrant program
Announcement PDF
How to apply PDF MS Word
Minigrant awarded 5 February 2009
NATL without borders: a community approach for management of invasives
Co-PIs are Gerardo Celis and Corrie Pieterson; faculty sponsor is Shibu Jose.
Final report, August 2009.
Other products: Brochure; files for an Invasives layer in NATL's GIS map; published note (Wildland Weeds, Fall 2009, p. 11).
Minigrant awarded 27 February 2009
Historical Context of the NATL
PI is David Munroe; faculty sponsor is Charlotte Porter.
Final report, received July 2009, consisted of a looseleaf binder with 35 "research items" plus
a CD with digitized versions of the research items.
2006 minigrant program
Announcement PDF
How to apply PDF MS Word
Minigrants awarded 19 January 2007
Enhancement of the information infrastructure of the Natural Area Teaching Laboratory
Co-PIs are Josiah H. Townsend, Krystal Noiseux, and Jeffrey Anderson; faculty sponsor is Susan Jacobson.
Final report consisted of near-final drafts of the four posters for the four kiosks at the trail heads of three upland nature trails.
Enhancement of the information infrastructure of the SEEP area of NATL
Co-PIs are Kristine E. Hoffmann, Fred P. Fisher [resigned], and Dara M. Wald; faculty sponsor is Susan Jacobson.
Final report consisted of drafts of the posters for the kiosks at the two entry points for the SEEP Nature Trail
and for signs along the boardwalk and other portions of that trail.
2004 minigrant program
Announcement of minigrant program PDF
How to apply for a $500 minigrant PDF
Projects suggested as suitable for support PDF
Minigrants awarded 14 December 2004
Historical ecology of UF's Natural Area Teaching Laboratory
PI is Jeffrey Morgan; faculty sponsor is Jack Putz.
Final report, 13 December 2005.
Species composition and habitat associations of ant communities in the Natural Area Teaching Lab
Co-PIs are Ian Fiske and Matthew Trager; faculty sponsor is Emilio Bruna.
Initial report, December 2005.
Detailed report, June 2006.
