2025 Grant Call

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. 

The 2025 grant application is now CLOSED. 


Past Laderman award recipients

2023 awardees

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.

2021 awardees

Anna Beach, Saint Michael’s College. Finding Space, Creating Place: The Participatory Restoration of Streams and Soils.

2019 awardees

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

2017 awardees

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.

2015 awardees

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.