ASP Conservation Small Grant Award Winners for 2009

Conservation Award ($750)

• Claudia Gomez from Nicaragua

Subscription Awards (for the American Journal of Primatology)

• Javier Enrique Garcia Villalba from Universidad Nacional de Columbia

Small Grants (up to $1500)

• Alice Brindle, Oxford Brookes University – "Comparing the behavioral ecology of two western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) groups in fragmented versus continuous forest in Sylhet Forest Division, Bangladesh" – $1500
• LeAndra Luecke, Washington University – "Nutrient and Toxin Analysis of Foods Consumed by Mantled and Black Howling Monkeys (Alouatta spp) in Mangrove Habitat" - $1500
• Chris Ransom, Zoological Society of London - "Non-invasive genetic sampling and individual identification of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Mikongo Forest, Gabon" - $1500
• Fiona Rowe, Oxford Brookes University – "A post-translocation study of Eulemur collaris in the littoral forests of southeastern Madagascar examining the cause of the population decline" - $1500
• Julie Rushmore, University of Georgia – "Behavioral determinants of pathogen transmission in African great apes" - $1500
• Amanda Sheres, San Diego State University – "Ecological and cultural interconnections between the Guizhou snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi) and local communities at Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve in China" - $1500
• Sylvie Djossou Djego, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Appliquée Université d'Abomey Calavi ( Bénin) – "Aires de répartition et comportements socio écologiques de deux espèces de primates au Bénin : le colobe olive ( Procolobus verus ) et le colobe magistrat ( Colobus vellerosus)" - $1000

TOTAL AMOUNT:  $10,000