Grants

The DVPS awards grants at the discretion of the Officers. Since 1983, over $19,500 has been awarded.

Past recipients of these grants are:

2024: Dr. David Broussard, Lycoming College: Late Devonian vertebrate isotope analysis

2020: Erynn Johnson and Ashley Adams: work on structural strength in arthropod shells and locomotion in dinosaurs

2018: Ashley Adams: Morrison Formation study in Montana

2015: New Jersey State Museum/Dave Parris: International Symposium on Paleohistology support

2015: Mantua Township Fossil fund: Rowan Fossil Park, support Community Dig Day

2015: Friends of the NJ State Museum: Big Horn Basin dinosaur project

2013: Dr. David Broussard, Lycoming College: Research fish scales found at the Red Hill site

2012: Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, Drexel University: Inversand Project – Cretaceous-aged marl pit located in Mantua township, NJ

2011: Friends of the NJ State Museum: Inversand Project – Cretaceous-aged marl pit located in Mantua township, NJ

2010: Doug Rowe, Red Hill Museum, North Bend, PA: Purchase of camera equipment for the museum

2009: Hamburg Natural History Society, Hamburg NY: Donation to their building fund

2002: Aurora Fossil Museum, Aurora, NC: Purchase materials for museum renovation

2001: Doug Rowe, Red Hill Museum, North Bend, PA: Purchase materials for museum ceiling

1999: Matt Lamanna and Josh Smith, University of Pennsylvania: Support a group from UPenn searching for dinosaurs in the Egyptian desert.

1983: Dr. Peter Dodson, University of Pennsylvania: Recovery of the type species of Avaceratopsis lammersi in Montana

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