Ralph W. Stone Graduate Fellowship in Cave and Karst Studies
Former Awards and Awardees
2005 Benjamin Schwartz. Univ. of Virginia. Karst hydrology of sinkholes.
2004. Reiko Ishihara. Univ. California Riverside. Archaeology of Aguateca Chasm, Guatemala.
2003 Ann Scott, Univ. of Texas, Austin. Exploring Contemporary Xibalba: Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Cave Rituals in Guatemala.
2002 Darlene Anthony. Purdue University. Late Tertiary development and Quaternary abandonment of large caves along the Western Cumberland Escarpment, Tennessee and Kentucky, in response to regional river entrenchment across the unglaciated Appalachian Plateaus
2001 Jean Krejca. Univ. of Texas, Austin. Genetic relatedness of stygobites as a tool for determining aquifer connectedness.
2000 William A. Curry. Western Kentucky Univ. The effects of timber harvest upon sedimentation in caves and karst of southeastern Alaska.
1999 Megan Porter. Univ. of Cincinnati. Estimating assimilation efficiencies; the missing piece to understanding energy flow in chemoautotrophic ecosystems.
1998 Jeffery Glenn Timmons. Western Kentucky Univ. The geochemical analysis of humic and fulvic acid rich peat drainage waters on karst landscape development.
1997 William D. Howcroft. Univ. of Nevada, Reno. Simulation of groundwater flow in a mature karst aquifer: application of ractal geometry, hydrograph separation, and double porosity modelling techniques.
1996 Keri E. Williamson. Washington University. The evolution of troglobitic Oliarus planthoppers (Homoptera) in lava tubes on Hawaii Island.
1995 Tao Tang. University of Wisconsin. Hillslope forms and morphogenesis of tower karst in southwest China.
1994 Todd Halihan. Univ. of Missouri. Physical hydrogeology of Devil's Icebox cave system.
1993 Serban M. Sarbu. Univ. of Cincinnati. Ecological analysis of a unique chemoautotrophically based groundwater ecosystem.
1992 Marshal Hedin. Washington University. Life history evolution and phylogenetic divergence in cave spiders of the genus Nesticus.
1991 Phillip Reeder. Univ. of Wisconsin. Groundwater contaminant pathways in the dolostone karst of southwestern Wisconsin.
1990 Christopher G. Groves. University of Virginia. Early development of karst systems.
1989 Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales. Texas Tech University. Taphonomy and paleoecology of San Josecito Cave, Nuevo leon, Mexico.
1988 Ira D. Sasowsky. Pennsylvania State Univ. karst hydrology of the Obey River Gorge, Tennessee: development of a genetic model for plateau-margin karst.
1987 Diana E. Northup. University of New Mexico. Community structure of the arthropods of Carlsbad Caverns emphasizing Rhaphidophoridae of the genus Ceuthophilus.
1986 Jill Yager. Old Dominion University. An ecological study of Remipedia, a primitive class of troglobitic crustacean from the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos.
1985 Marsha A. Davis. University of Minnesota. Hydrological study of Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument.
1984 William L. Wilson. Indiana State University. Lithological and base level controls on cavern levels in the Carrison Chapel area, Indiana.
1983 George Veni. Western Kentucky University. The interrelationship of caves, urban development, and water quality and quantity in the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, Bexar county, Texas.
1982 John D. Pickle. The sediments and dynamics of sedimentation of Turnhole Spring basin of the mammoth cave Region, Kentucky.
1981 Julian J. Lewis. Ecological studies of the subterranean isopods of the Mammoth cave Region.
1980 Joseph W. Troester. Pennsylvania State Univ. Geochemistry and hydrology of the Northern Karst Belt of Puerto Rico: a humid tropical karst.
1979 Kathleen Lavoie. University of Illinois. The microbial ecology of caves.
1978 Gail McCoy. San Jose State University. Analysis of the structural control of speleogenesis in Lilburn Cave.
1977 Ernst Kastning. University of Texas, Austin. Geomorphology and hydrology of the Edwards Plateau karst, central Texas.
1976 Barbara Martin. University of Illinois. Bat guano arthropod communities.
1975 Albert Ogden. Hydrogeology of Greenbrier Limestone in Morgan Co., West Virginia.
1974 Ronald Wilson. University of Kentucky. Biogeography of cave invertebrates in Kentucky.
1973 Russell Harmon. McMaster University. Pleistocene paleoclimates of North American karsts areas from isotopic studies of calcite cave deposits.
1972 William Elliot. Texas Tech University. Zoogeography of the invertebrate cave fauna of Northern mexico.
1971 Merlin D. Tuttle. Uinversity of Kansas. Ecology and movements of the gray bat Myotis griscesens in the southeastern United States.
1970 Thomas E. Wolfe. Mcmaster University. Clastic sediments in West Virginia caves.
1969 Stewart B. Peck. Harvard University. Systematics and evolutionary biology of the beetle genus Ptomaphagus (Catopidae) in North America.
1968 David P. Seiter. University of Kentucky. Solution geochemistry of the cave streams of cave hollow System, kentucky.
Award renamed in honor of Ralph W. Stone, 1968.
1967 John E. Cooper. University of Kentucky. Population and community dynamics in a simplified ecosystem; Shelta Cave, Alabama.
1966 Max W. Reams. Washington University. Clastic sedimentation in caves and its relation to the physiographic history of of the Ozarks.
1965 Gregg Marland. Washington University. Origin of managnese and iron minerals in limestone caves.
1964 Reuben M. Frank. University of Texas. Petrographic studies of sediments in the caves of the Edwards Plateau.
1963 Charles O. Porter. Texas A & M University. Geophysical methods for locating caves from the surface.
1962 John J. Fisher. University of North Carolina. Comparative studies of caves north and south of the limit of glaciation in Canada and the United States.
1961 Dwight E. Deal. University of Wyoming. Geology and mineralogy of Jewel Cave, Wyoming.