research grants program overview
Grant Application Guidelines | Recent Grantees | Redwood Ecosystems Research
Save the Redwoods League supports basic and applied hypothesis-driven research on the biology and ecology of coast redwood and giant sequoia forest ecosystems.
To conserve and restore these ecosystems in the coming decades, the League funds research that expands our understanding of ecosystem function, community interactions, rare and threatened species, and the impact of climate change on redwood forests. We welcome proposals on all topics that advance our understanding of these ecosystems.
In 2011, we are especially interested in projects that focus on one of the following topics:
- How effective are forest restoration techniques?
- How is climate change impacting forest biogeochemical cycling?
- How is wildlife affected by forest management?
- How does fire impact young and late-seral forests?
Grant applications are due Friday, November 4, 2011, before 6 p.m. PDT.
Recent Research Program Grantees
In 2010, Save the Redwoods League awarded $99,300 in grants to the following grantees:
- A Race Against Time: Establishing Baseline Data on Redwood Ecosystem Food Webs Before New Zealand Mudsnails Invade. Adam Sepulveda, US Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center; Darren Ward, Humboldt State University; and Laurie Marczak, University of Montana
- Clonal Patterns and Resource Sharing in Coast Redwood: Assessment of Somatic Mutation. Kevin O'Hara and Lakshmi Narayan, University of California, Berkeley
- Natural Recovery of Second-Growth Coast Redwood Stands in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Will Russell, San Jose State University, and Joe McBride, University of California, Berkeley
- Developing Conservation Strategies for the Giant Sequoia, an Imperiled California Endemic. Richard Dodd and Matt Hughes, University of California, Berkeley
- Soil Carbon Storage in a Coast Redwood Forest. Todd Dawson and Stefania Mambelli, University of California, Berkeley
- Quantifying Stem Water Storage through Time in the Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia. Todd Dawson and Cameron Williams, University of California, Berkeley
- The Role of Bacterial Endophytes in Redwood Robustness to Climate Change. Anna Carolin Frank, University of California, Merced
More redwood research and available grant reports
