The next application period will open December 2025.
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The Utah Chapter of The Wildlife Society offers Grants-in-Aid for graduate and undergraduate research.
Research Grants
The purpose of Utah Chapter TWS research grants is to assist marginally funded research projects, not add to already well-funded efforts. These funds can be used for supplies, travel, wages or publications associated with existing wildlife projects.
Mentoring Grants
Utah Chapter TWS mentoring grants reimburse students for their time, supplies, and/or other expenses involved with conducting a wildlife research project. Students may either design their own project or work on a professor’s ongoing research, but all students must work with a faculty mentor. Some students may approach faculty with their own ideas, while others may propose to assist wildlife research that is already ongoing. Students should initiate the mentoring relationship by asking a faculty member to advise them on a project.
Eligibility for Grants
Must be currently enrolled as a fulltime student.
Must be in good academic standing.
Must have a research project in need of financial support for research grant OR must have faculty member who is willing to serve as a mentor for the grant.
Proposal Guidelines
The 2025 Grants-in-Aid Application is closed. Please check back in December 2025 for details on the upcoming application period.
Please send a completed proposal to contact@uttws.com.
Subject line of the email must read: UTTWS Grant Submission-2025.
The proposal should be 2 pages single spaced, 1 inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font.
Header: Proposal Title, Applicant’s name, Applicant’s email, and University.
Goal/Purpose: Write a succinct statement summarizing the goal of the project.
Importance of project: Explain why this project is important. It may, for example, fill a research need, attempt to provide a practical solution to a vexing problem, or create an aesthetic work of art.
Main Proposal Body: This section is the main body of your proposal. Include your research plans, methods and expectations for this project based on the unique skills you and your mentor possess to conduct this project. If you need to include images or symbols with your proposal, please be sure to optimize the images so the entire document is not more than 2 MB.
Anticipated Outcome: Describe any presentations, displays, publications, or other tangible outcomes you anticipate. This may be a paper, a formal presentation, a performance, an invention, or even a lecture in a public forum such as a class presentation.
Qualifications: Explain why you are qualified to pursue this project.
Project Timetable: Summarize the major milestones in your project.
Budget: Include the amount of funding you are requesting (not to exceed $2,000) with a brief justification for the amount requested. Please disclose any other sources of funding already secured or anticipated for this project.
Previous Recipients
Previous Recipients
2025
Graeson Coughenour
University of Utah
Fauna On The Fairways: Determining How Golf Course Location, Development, and Sustained Use Impacts Biodiversity In Cities
$2,000
Andrew Sevy
Brigham Young University
Detecting Wildlife in Restoration Sites Through the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems
$2,000
Delaney McCarthy
University of Utah
Moving Pictures: Comparing the Results of Photo- versus
Video-generated Data Collected with Trail Cameras
$2,000
Matthew Guthrie
University of Utah
Assessing Disease Spillover Risk in Mammalian Species: Evaluating Anthropogenic Processes as a Key Metric
$2,000
Kirstie Kandaris
Utah State University
Fuel reduction treatments and their ecological impacts on native bees
$1,000
Kyle Garrett
Brigham Young University
An Evaluation of Novel Hazing and Deterrent Methods for Polar Bears
$1,000
2024
Lauren Head
Utah State University
Waterbird Bioenergetic Modeling of Impounded and Unmanaged Great Salt Lake Wetlands
$2,500
Megan Slocombe
Utah State University
June Sucker preferences among native and invasive aquatic plant habitat in the face of predator stimuli
$2,000
Kirstie Kandaris
Utah State University
Fuel reduction treatments and their ecological impacts on native bees
$1,500
Amy Buxton
Utah State University
Investigating Dietary Response of Generalist and Specialist Bird Species to Precipitation Fluctuations in Red Butte Canyon and Rio Mesa, Utah
$500
Natalie Sharp
Utah State University
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus’ Effect on Mule Deer Reproductive Hormones
$500
2023
Alex Blanche
Utah State University
Assessing Condor Foraging Habitats and Competition in Southern Utah
$2,000
2022
Christine Sandbach (1st)
Utah State University
Assessing Utah's Beaver Translocation Quarantine Protocol
$2,000
Austin Green (2nd)
University of Utah
Assessing the Directionality and Usage Rate of Wildlife Traffic across the Parley's Summit Wildlife Overpass
$1,500
Courtney Check (3rd)
Utah State University
Evaluating Multiple Drivers of Interspecific Competition in Mule Deer and Their Effects on Space-use
$1,000
2021
Megen Kepas (1st)
Utah State University
Consolidation of Community Science Data for Informing Wildlife Action Plan Initiatives.
$2,000
Nathan Floyd (2nd)
Utah State University
Investigating cause-specific mortality of sheep to determine the impacts of predators on domestic livestock in Utah.
$1,500
Veronica Winter (2nd)
Utah State University
Pronghorn space-use and demography in Utah.
$1,500
2020
Kristin Engebretsen (1st)
Utah State University
Marshall Wolf (2nd)
Utah State University
Austin Green (3rd)
University of Utah
Daniel Sallee (4th)
Brigham Young University
2019
Sydney Lamb (1st)
Brigham Young University
Maternal effects on fawn survival in Northern Utah.
$2,000
Emma Doden (2nd)
Utah State University
Comparing resident and translocated beaver ecology at stream restoration sites.
$1,500
Hailey Wayment (3rd)
Utah State University
Greater sage-grouse responses to livestock grazing in semi-arid sagebrush rangelands.
$1,000
2018
Austin Green (1st)
University of Utah
A Citizen Science Approach to Ecological Study and Conservation of the Central Wasatch Range Mammal Community Along an Urban-Wildland Interface.
$2000
Jason Wood (2nd)
Brigham Young University
The Effects of Dixie Harrow on Sage-grouse Habitat: Is Treated Sagebrush Tasty?
$1500
Rebecca Dungan (3rd)
Brigham Young University
Habitat Analysis of American Black Bears in Southern Utah: Movements, Habitat Relationships, and Patterns.
$1000
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