California Botanical Society Paul Silva Student Research Grant

Funds: up to $1000
Application deadline: January 31, 2026

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Annetta Carter Memorial Fund Grant

Funds: up to $1000
Application deadline: TBA

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Past Grant Recipients

California Botanical Society Paul Silva Student Research

2026 – Daniel Al Fatayri, John Carroll University: Microbial biogeography on Santa Catalina Island biocrusts: distribution and phylogenetic affinity of the rare genus Compactonostoc

2026 – Erica Fontanez, California Botanic Garden & Claremont Graduate University: Phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of Chloropyron (Salty Bird’s-Beak, Orobanchaceae), a genus of salt marsh dependent species

2026 – Julia Bebout, UC San Diego: Exploring potential risks and benefits of a native parasitic plant for restoration in Southern California

2025 – Emily Humphreys, University of Washington: Investigating the role of abiotic stress tolerance in botanical evolution onto multiple specialist substrates

2025 – Lauren Audi, New York University and the New York Botanical Gardens: Ecological transcriptomics to assess adaptation and acclimation in serpentine extremophile, Cirsium fontinale

2025 – Chloe Novak, California Botanic Garden & Claremont Graduate University: A Flora of the Amargosa River Headwaters, Nye County, Nevada

2024 – Cecilia Girvin, University of California, Santa Cruz: Conflicting selection and floral longevity in Clarkia unguiculata

2024 – Garrett Goodrich, California Botanic Garden: Flora of the Boulder Creek Watershed, Jennie Lakes Wilderness, and Evans Grove Complex, Fresno and Tulare Counties, CA

2023 – David Mitchell, University of California, Davis: Soil management to improve native tree and shrub restoration and enhance mycorrhizal symbioses in rangeland riparian zones

2023 – Chi Wei, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA: Using aerial vegetation indices to enhance acorn crop estimates in analyses of California oak phenology patterns

2023 – Josue Magaña (undergraduate), California State University, Fresno: Investigating the relationship between Galápagos Island and North American Amaranthus species with a focus on Amaranthus torreyi

2022 – Peri Lee Pipkin, Claremont Graduate University/California Botanical Garden: A Floristic Inventory of the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, NV.

2022 – Selena Vengco, Claremont Graduate University/California Botanical Garden: Maintenance of flower color polymorphisms in a non-model system of Erythranthe discolor (Phrymaceae)

2022 – Peter Nguyen (undergraduate), University of California, Santa Cruz: Using eDNA to characterize associated soil microbes of Lupinus nipomensis that influence survival

2021 – Emma Fryer, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo: Community Assembly of Vertic Clay Endemic Annuals of the San Joaquin Desert

2021 – Riley Scaff, Pitzer College, Claremont, California: Restoring a Native Plant Community to a Mojave Desert Burn Site

2021 – Annie Taylor, Boise State University, Idaho: Resolving taxonomic uncertainty and clarifying species boundaries in the Cymopterus terebinthinus species complex

2021 – Kristy Snyder, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington: Analysis of the Role of Annual Seeds in Palouse Prairie Restoration

2020 – Ernesto Chavez-Velasco, University of California, Santa Cruz: Does coastal fog interact with drought to affect water use and endophytic pathogenesis in Coastal Prairie?

2020 – Jenna Ekwealor, University of California, Berkeley: UV tolerance in Mojave Desert mosses

2020 – Jacob Ewald, California State University, Chico: Species boundaries in two northern California Monkeyflowers

2020 – Michael Mulroy, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo: An investigation of lichen biotas of ultramafic and sandstone outcrops along a maritime gradient in central California

2019 – Lacey Benson, San Jose State University: Desiccation tolerance of western sword fern (Polystichum minimum) gametophytes across the coast redwood forest ecological gradient

2019 – Alec Chiono, University of San Francisco: Testing the climate variability hypothesis in coast-inland systems and implications under climate change

2019 – Maria Jesus, Claremont Graduate University & Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden: A vascular flora of Conglomerate Mesa and Malpais Mesa, Inyo County, California

2019 – Christina Varnava, Claremont Graduate University & Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden: A vascular flora of the Upper Sespe Creek Watershed

2018 – Nicole Kollars – University of California, Davis: The consequences of grazing disturbance on the genetic diversity of seagrass

2018 – Audrey Haynes, University of California, Berkeley: Night-time transpiration in parasitic plants

2018 – Emily Cox (undergraduate), University of California, Berkeley: Lasthenia californica and water stress: A glimpse into the future of California grasslands

2017 – Jennifer Harrower, University of California, Santa Cruz: Investigating the impacts of climate change on Joshua trees and their symbionts

2017 – Nila Le, University of San Francisco: Climate change and limited distribution of the California native plant and rocky outcrop endemic Arabis blepharophylla

2017 – Annie Ayers, Kate Miller, Drew Burke & Maxwell McCollum, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo: A floristic survey of Mt. Conness and Skelton Plateau in Yosemite National Park

2016 – Kristen Peach, University of California, Santa Barbara: Predicting responses of wild plant populations to climate change: Integrating climatic and biological factors influencing the ecology of floral attraction

Annetta Carter Memorial Fund

2024 – Tito Abbo: What role does the Baja California Peninsula play in manzanita diversification?

2022 – Sophie Winitsky: Investigating taxonomic hypotheses of Baja California’s hyper-diverse genus Marina (Fabaceae) using target enrichment

2018 – Isaac H.L. Marck: Revising the Systematics of Amauri, the Baja California endemic road daisies

2018 – Benjamin T. Wilder: Botanical Diversity and Change of Volcan Tres Virgenes

2016 – Andy Siekkinen: Searching for Hechtia gayorum, the Baja Endemic Bromeliad

2014 – C. Matt Guilliams: Distribution, extent, and floristics of vernal pools in Baja California, Mexico

2014 – Daniel E. Winkler: Reconnaissance of the status of a rare, endemic plant species in Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park, Baja California, Mexico

2012 – Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman: The vascular flora of Greater San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico

2010 – Christopher DiVittorio: Adaptive radiation of Encelia (Asteraceae) in Baja California

2008 – Sula Vanderplank: The vascular flora of Greater San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico

2006 – Peter J. Garcia: Plant collecting on Isla Angel, Sea of Cortez

2005 – Jon P. Rebman: Checklist of the plants of Lower California, Mexico