The Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER-NE) is proud to offer biennial grants to emerging professionals (i.e. students and early career professionals) in the field of ecological restoration.
Be on the lookout in Spring 2027 for the next round of the Aimlee Laderman Student Grant!
Past Laderman Award Recipients
Hope Kenmore, Stony Brook University. Evaluating restoration success and revegetation of sediment addition projects in Northeast United States salt marshes.
Diana Albuja, Pennsylvania State University. Japanese Barberry control and active restoration strategies for climate resilient forests.
Olivia Kurz, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mycorrhizal Community Impacts on Atlantic White Cedar Wetland Restoration in Former Commercial Cranberry Bogs.
Amanda Wik, Yale School of the Environment. Can Runnels Restore Ecosystem Connectivity and Function in Degraded Salt Marshes?
Michelle Giles, University of Vermont. Improving Access to and Stewardship of Centennial Woods.
Anna Beach, Saint Michael’s College. Finding Space, Creating Place: The Participatory Restoration of Streams and Soils.
Katherine Abbot, University of Massachusetts. Sublethal Effects of Small Dams on the Diet and Body Condition of Invertivorous Stream Fishes.
Grant McKown, University of New Hampshire. Living Shorelines in New Hampshire: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Sara Wigginton, University of Rhode Island. Quantifying Denitrification in Soils Treating Wastewater
Derrick Alcott, University of Massachusetts. Distinguishing River Herring Species.
Andrew Payne, University of New Hampshire. Thin-layer Deposition on Salt Marshes for Resilience to Rising Sea Levels.
Marlyse Duguid, Yale School of the Environment. Landscape-level Floristic Patterns in Understory Diversity and Composition.
Meg Thurrell, University of Southern Maine. Restoration of a Tidal Marsh on a Former Freshwater Lake.