All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) Grant Awards

The projects listed below represent projects of the past that have received grants on acceptance of their ATBI proposals.

The modest "minigrants" are meant to supply seed funds to allow for travel, and to encourage the aquisition of more substantial grants for ATBI collection work in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park under the coordination of Discover Life in America.

For Scientists, the following links are crucial for understanding the minigrant process.

< Grant Project Procedures Timeline >
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PI Name Grant Project Title Grant Number
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Initial Tardigrade and Meiofauna Inventory DLIA2001-10
Dr. Will K. Reeves 2001 Biting Flies and Their Symbionts DLIA2001-25
Dr. Harold Keller Tree canopy biodiversity (myxomycetes, macrofungi, mosses, liverworts, lichens, and tardigrades) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2001-26
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Tardigrade Inventory - Year 2 DLIA2002-01
Dr. Donald Manley Inventory of Velvet Ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2002-03
Dr. Brian Scholtens Lepidoptera BioBlitz 2002 DLIA2002-05
Dr. Edward C. Clebsch Intensive and Extensive Collecting of Pseudoscorpions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2002-10
Dr. Huzefa Raja Lignicolous freshwater meiosporic and mitosporic euascomycetes DLIA2002-12
Dr. Richard E. Baird Microfungi of American Beech, Fraser Fir, and Eastern Hemlock forests in Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2003-01
Dr. R. Edward DeWalt Summer Adult EPT Assemblage of Southwestern GSMNP Drainages DLIA2003-02
Dr. Steven L. Stephenson Biodiversity Studies of Myxomycetes DLIA2003-04
Dr. Michael Pogue Noctuidae or Owlet Moths of Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2003-06
Dr. Charles R. Bartlett Planthopper and Leafhopper Diversity of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea & Cicadellidae) DLIA2003-08
Victoria M. Bayless Beetle Blitz, 2003—Intensive Sampling and Identification of Coleoptera in GSMNP DLIA2003-10
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Tardigrade Inventory - Year 3 DLIA2003-12
Dr. Tor Tønsberg Discover lichens in the Great Smoky Mountains Nat. Park in 2003 DLIA2003-13
Mark J. Wetzel Preliminary inventory of freshwater Oligochaeta (Annelida) at selected sites in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2003-14
Dr. Gary Steck Tephritid Flies of Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2003-15
Dr. Mary Ann Feist Searching for new park records of vascular plants and lichens in the GSMNP DLIA2003-17
Dr. Chris Carlton Coleoptera Taxonomy DLIA2003-20
Dr. Colin Favret Survey of the Aphids of Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2003-21
Dr. Sean O'Connell Bacterial BioBlitz in Twelve All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Plots DLIA2003-28
Dr. Richard E. Baird Microfungi of American beech, Fraser fir, and Eastern hemlock DLIA2004-01
Dr. Paul J Bartels Continued Inventory of Phylum Tardigrada DLIA2004-02
Dr. Charles Staines Inventory of Five Families of Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in GSMNP DLIA2004-03
Dr. Matt E Dakin Survey of the suborder Caelifera (order Orthoptera) DLIA2004-04
Dr. Harold W. Keller Lichen BioQuest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2004-06
Dr. Gary Steck Tephritid Flies of Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2004-07
Mr. Paul B. Marcum Search for new and rare vascular plants and lichens in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2004-09
Dr. John B Heppner Biodiversity of Day-flying Micro-Moths of GSMNP DLIA2004-10
Dr. Nathan J. Sanders Ant Diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2004-11
Dr. Michael G. Pogue Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) of GSMNP DLIA2004-12
Dr. Brian G Scholtens Lepidoptera Bioblitz 2004 DLIA2004-13
Dr. Colin Favret Expanding our knowledge of the aphids of the park DLIA2004-14
Mark J. Wetzel To continue an inventory of freshwater Oligochaeta (Annelida) DLIA2004-15
Mr. Edward G. Riley Continuation of Leaf Beetle Inventory DLIA2004-18
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Continued Inventory of Phylum Tardigrada DLIA2005-06
Dr. Paula Furey Taxonomy, ecology, and distribution of the diatom Eunotia Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2005-07
Dr. Ian M. Smith Biodiversity of Water Mites (Acari: Hydrachnida) DLIA2005-10
Dr. Andrew N. Miller Pyreno Pursuit: A bioblitz to discover the diversity of pyrenomycetes (Ascomycota, Fungi) in GSMNP DLIA2005-11
Dr. Robert T. Allen A Survey of the Diplura, Microcoryphia, and Thysanura (Arthropoda: Insecta) in the GSMNP DLIA2005-14
Dr. Nathan Sanders Ant Diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. DLIA2005-15
Dr. Arturo Goldarazena The biodiversity of Thysanoptera at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an Introduction. DLIA2005-17
Paul Super Pollinators of Selected Flowering Plants of GSMNP, North Carolina DLIA2005-21
Dr. Matthew Petersen TITLE of Project: Crane flies (Diptera: Tipuloidea) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2005-22
Dr. Gary Steck Tephritid flies of GSMNP DLIA2005-25
Dr. Gary Steck Diptera of GSMNP DLIA2005-26
Dr. Brian Scholtens Lepidoptera Barcoding 2005 DLIA2005-30
Dr. Colin Favret Completing the Aphid Survey of GSMNP DLIA2005-32
Dr. Chris Carlton Long-horned and Leaf Beetles from the ATBI Structured Sampling and Publication of New Taxa for GSMNP DLIA2005-33
Dr. Victoria Bayless Mega Beetle Blitz 2005 DLIA2005-34
Dr. Tor Tonsberg Discover Lichens in the GSMNP in 2005 DLIA2005-37
Dr. Sean O'Connell The Elk Rumen: An Ecosystem of Undiscovered Prokaryotes DLIA2005-38
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Tardigrade Inventory 2006-2007 DLIA2006-01
Dr. Steven L. Stephenson Myxo Blitz 2006 DLIA2006-02
Dr. Richard E. Baird Microfungi of American Beech and Fraser Fir forests in GSMNP: Litter Studies DLIA2006-03
Dr. Larissa N. Vasilyeva Pyrenomycetes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and their biogeographic relationships with East Asian relatives DLIA2006-04
Dr. Charles Staines ATBI Aquatic Beetle Inventory DLIA2006-05
Dr. Matt E. Dakin Survey of the Orthoptera and Related Orders DLIA2006-06
Dr. Ian M. Smith Extending Our Knowledge of the Diversity of Water Mites (Acari-Hydrachnidiae) DLIA2006-08
Dr. Robert A. Browne Species Diversity and Community Composition of Carabid Beetles in GSMNP DLIA2006-09
Dr. Gary J. Steck Tephritid flies of GSMNP DLIA2006-10
Dr. Adriean J. Mayor Organisms of Caves and other Karst Habitat DLIA2006-11
Dr. Tor Tønsberg Lichens DLIA2006-14
Dr. Nathan Sanders Ant Diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Part III DLIA2006-15
Patrick L. Rakes Snorkel Surveys to target potentially undiscovered fish populations in GSMNP DLIA2006-16
Dr. C. Roxanne Connelly Seasonal Occurrence and Habitat Utilization of Exotic, Invasive Mosquitoes DLIA2006-18
Dr. Brian Scholtens Lepidoptera Survey: Late Season Barcoding DLIA2006-22
JoVonn G. Hill Continuation of the Survey of Orthopteroid Insects in GSMNP DLIA2007-01
Landon E. McKinney A Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Update of the Violaceae in the GSMNP DLIA2007-02
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Tardigrade Inventory 2007-2008 DLIA2007-03
Dr. Charles T. Faulkner Taxonomic Inventory of Endoparasitism in Passerine Birds from GSMNP DLIA2007-04
Dr. Michael G. Pogue Noctuidae of Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2007-05
Dr. Tor Tonsberg Discover lichens in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2007 DLIA2007-06
Dr. Ian M. Smith Extending Our Knowledge of the Diversity of Water Mites (Acari-Hydrachnidiae) DLIA2007-07
Dr. Xin Zhou 2007 EPT Blitz and Barcoding for GSMNP DLIA2007-08
Mr. Benny C. Glasgow Turbellaria Flatworm Diversity in GSMNP and Environmental Factors of Distribution DLIA2007-09
Dr. Shien Lu A Survey of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria in GSMNP DLIA2007-11
Kelly Felderhoff-Oten Tomoceridae in GSMNP DLIA2007-12
Mr. Andrew D. Haddow Morpho and cryptic species of Tabanidae in GSMNP DLIA2007-13
Mr.Gregory R. Curler A survey of the Psychodidae (Diptera) of GSMNP DLIA2007-14
Mr. William N. Reynolds Inventory of Acari in the soil and litter of GSMNP DLIA2007-15
Dr. Sead Sabanadzovic Plant Viruses in GSMNP DLIA2007-17
Dr. Nathan Sanders Ant Diversity in GSMNP, part IV DLIA2007-19
Dr. Seán O’Connell Bacterial Inhabitants of Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Rhizospheres: Links to Plant Survival and Sustainability DLIA2007-20
Dr. Richard Baird Microfungi of American Beech, Fraser Fir and Hemlock Forests in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Cultural versus Molecular Determinations DLIA2008-01
Dr. Charles R. Bartlett Assessment of total Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera: Insecta) richness for the GSMNP and Initiative to develop web-based resources DLIA2008-03
Dr. Ian Smith Establishing a Water Mite Diversity Baseline for Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2008-04
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tardigrade Inventory DLIA2008-06
Dr. Chris Carlton First Survey of Microsporidia Insect Parasites in Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2008-12
Dr. Gary Steck Diptera Blitz and Great Smoky Mountains National Park Diptera Checklist Update DLIA2008-14
Dr. Paul P. Tinerella Inventory of Aquatic True Bugs of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2008-15
Dr. Nathan J. Sanders Ant Diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Part V DLIA2008-16
Dr. Ernest C. Bernard Reduction of Sorting GSMNP Specimen Collections Backlog and Segregation of Sorted Hymenoptera into Families DLIA2008-18
Dr. Bruce Snyder Millipede Specimen Identifications DLIA2008-21
Dr. Jeff Johansen Algae Inventory Specimen ID and Database DLIA2008-Ext2
Dr. Paul J. Bartels Completion of Tardigrade Inventory DLIA2009-01
Dr. Ian Smith Establishing a Water Mite Diversity Baseline for Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2009-02
Dr. Chris Dietrich Inventory of the Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera) of the GSMNP, with emphasis on the most diverse leafhopper subfamily, Typhlocybinae DLIA2009-03
Dr. Gary Walker A floristic survey of xeric cliffs associated with new lands on TN side of Rt. 129 corridor of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2009-06
Dr. John K. Moulton Cataloging metallic wood boring beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2009-07
Dr. Gregory R. Curler A continuing survey of the Psychodidae (Diptera) of GSMNP DLIA2009-08
Dr. Sead Sabanadzovic Plant viruses in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park DLIA2009-12
Dr. Sandra M. Clinton Microbial diversity in streams of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2009-14
Dr. Andrew N. Miller An inventory of Discomycetes (Ascomycota, Fungi) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2009-15
Dr. Stuart Gelder Survey of the Branchiobdella (Annelida: Clitellata) or Crayfish Worms in the GSMNP DLIA2010-01
Dr. Ian Smith Expanding the Record of GSMNP Water Mite Diversity with Molecular Genetics DLIA2010-02
Dr. Adam W. Rollins Diversity of Myxomycetes and Algae Associated with the Soils of Different Forest Types in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2010-03
Dr. Sherman S. Hendrix Helminth and Myxozoan Parasites of Fishes of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2010-05
Mr. Benny Glasgow Survey of Flatworms and Ribbon Worms in GSMNP DLIA2010-06
Dr. Stephen A. Kania Characterization of Staphylococci Isolated from Bears in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2010-07
Dr. Sead Sabanadzovic Plant Viruses in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park DLIA2010-08
Dr. Zachary Loughman Crayfish Inventory of 2011 DLIA2011-01
Dr. James Cokendolpher Pilot Study: 1999-2003 Pseudoscorpion Specimens DLIA2011-02
Ashley Morris Beech Gap Bacteria Inventory DLIA2011-03

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