The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship

The 2024 grant cycle is now CLOSED.


The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2023 Fellows

CAROLYN COYLE

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Songbirds as Novel Pollinators: Uncovering the role of Passerines in Pollination Systems across Western North America

AMBER FREDENBURG

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Beyond blooms: Enhancing nesting resources for ground-nesting bee conservation

ELISE MCDONALD

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

An Integrated Approach to Using Silviculture Management for Conserving Wild Bees in Managed Forests

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2022 Fellows

Shannon M. Collins

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

What’s Bee-Low the Surface: Exploring Relationships Between the Soil Microbiome and Ground-Nesting Bee Communities

Christopher Cosma

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

Beyond the Yucca Moth: The Composition, Structure, and Climate Change Sensitivity of Moth Pollen-Transport Networks in the Southwest

Adair F. McNear

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL

Did the Pollinator Cross the Road?: Plant-Pollinator Ecology and Wildflower Population Connectivity in Roadside Verges of the Piedmont Region of North Carolina

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2021 Fellows

Seanne Clemente

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST

Floral volatiles and pollinator self-medication: Implications for bee and plant fitness

Maura Hall

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

Quantification of an agriculturally prevalent pyrethroid insecticide in honey bee bodies to determine risk to foraging bees

Christopher Halsch

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

The interactive effects of pesticide exposure and climate change on a widespread butterfly

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2020 Fellows

Laura Lampe

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERITY, CHICO

Do alpine communities experience greater plant-pollinator phenological mismatch than lowland habitats?

Logan Sauers

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY

A pollinator’s tiny friends: Investigating the role of microbial communities in the health of their pollinator hosts

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2019 Fellows

Aramee Diethelm

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

Pollinator survival and water stress: effects of plant chemistry on pollinator-predator interactions

Hannah Levenson

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Quantifying the disease ecology across pollinator communities as a result of planted pollinator plots

Jacob Pecenka

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Assessing bumble bee health in Indiana agroecosystems

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2018 Fellows

Kristen Birdshire

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER

Changes in Wild Bee Diversity and Abundance Along an Urban to Rural Gradient, and the Physiological Characteristics that Influence Their Existence

Pamela Blackmore

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Butterflies, Tall-grass Prairie, and Green Roofs

Kristen M. Lear

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Assessing and developing critical foraging habitat for an endangered pollinating bat

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2017 Fellows

Michelle L. Fearon

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Tracking virus strain spillover: Pollinator community interaction networks impact honey bee and native bee virus prevalence and viral loads

Kelsey E. Fisher

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

Tracking Monarch Butterflies Through the Iowa Landscape Utilizing an Automated Radio Telemetry

Rachael E. Bonoan

TUFTS UNIVERSITY

The effect of dietary essential amino acids on immunocompetence in immune-challenged honey bees

Jonathan Giacomini

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Can Helianthus Heal Bees? Management of bumble bee parasites with sunflower pollen supplements

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2016 Fellows

HAMUTAHL COHEN

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

Does landscape and plant diversity impact microbiome variation and pathogen (Osmia lignaria)?

REBECCA DALTON

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Assessing mechanisms of coexistence between two spring ephemerals under a changing climate

LAURA FIGUEROA

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Pathogen Transmission in Plant-Pollinator Networks

DANNY MINAHAN

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MADISON

Effects of Pollen Protein on the Foraging Dynamics of Honey Bees and Bumble Bees: Implications for Ensuring Suitable Forage Through Time

BETH MORRISON

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Changes in plant-pollinator network structure in the face of agricultural development: Implications for conservation and evolutionary diversity

MICHAEL L. SMITH

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

How worker honey bees detect their colony's size

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2015 Fellows

MEGHAN BENNETT

NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Determining the roles of significant environmental factors on development and emergence rhythms of the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata

BRITTANY HARRIS

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Pesticides and pollination of imperiled plants in the Lower Florida Keys

ANIA MAJEWSKA

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica), monarch migration and disease risk

GABRIELLA PARDEE

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Climate change and pollination mutualisms: Understanding the consequences of early snowmelt and frost events on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

GRACE SAVOY-BURKE

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

Investigating Native Bee Diversity and Genetic Structure in Mid-Atlantic Woodlands

ANTHONY SLOMINSKI

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY

The effects of climate-driven shifts in phenology, pollinator body size, and pollinator lifespan on plant-pollinator interactions and plant and pollinator reproductive success

The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator 2014 Fellows

ELLIOT GARDNER

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Pollination biology of Artocarpus (Moraceae)

EVAN PALMER-YOUNG

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Synergistic anti-parasitic effects of nectar compounds in bumblebee diets

SAMANTHA ALGER

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

RNA viruses: prevalence, transmission, and effect on native bumble bees in Vermont

LAUREN PONISIO

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Fire severity and the assembly of pollinator communities