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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Xerces Society is pleased to announce the 2013 Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award recipients. This award provides two students each year with $3,750 each for research into the conservation of Lepidoptera. In memory of his wife Joan Mosenthal DeWind, who was a longtime Xerces supporter and pioneering member, Bill DeWind established this student research endowment fund.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2013 Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award Recipients<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00000A'>Consequences of selective-herbicide use on butterfly populations: evaluating the magnitude and persistence of negative herbicidal effects on the demography of a lycaenid (</span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia</span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00000A'>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Rachel Glaeser – Washington State University, Vancouver<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Selective herbicides are a cost-effective tool for controlling invasive perennial grasses and improving habitat for plants and animals. However, these chemicals can potentially alter butterfly demographic vital rates and negatively impact populations. The field component of this study will examine the effects of a grass-specific herbicide on the oviposition and larval survivorship of the Columbia silvery blue (<i>Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia</i>). A complementary laboratory investigation will evaluate mechanisms for how herbicides might deter butterfly oviposition. The study will characterize negative effects in order to improve spraying regimes and will additionally evaluate the use of a potential surrogate for at-risk butterfly species.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Conservation genomics of the checkerspot butterfly, <i>Euphydryas editha</i>: finding genes responsible for dispersal propensity<i> </i></span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>John Schroeder – Stanford University</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Many threatened butterfly species face rampant habitat destruction that interrupts metapopulation dynamics of colonization and extinction. These disruptions result from the isolation of a shrinking number of available habitat patches. Thus, reintroduction is necessary to replace the natural process of recolonization following local extinction. Refining reintroduction techniques is therefore important for butterfly conservation. This project seeks to develop genetic techniques to select optimal subsets of source populations for reintroduction. Specifically, it will determine the genes responsible for dispersal propensity, which can then be used to select a subset of the source population prone to remain in optimal habitat patches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Margo Conner<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Contract Assistant<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1971 - 2011: Forty Years of Conservation!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>628 NE Broadway Suite 200, Portland, OR 97232, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:margo@xerces.org"><span style='color:blue'>margo@xerces.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel: (503) 232-6639 ext. 104<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Toll free: 1-855-232-6639 ext. 121<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fax: (503) 233-6794<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Connect with Xerces via Facebook <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Xerces-Society/193182577358618"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE307A.20165180" alt="FB_icon_small"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To join the Society, make a contribution, or read about our work, please visit <a href="http://www.xerces.org/"><span style='color:blue'>www.xerces.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Buy our best-selling book:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.xerces.org/announcing-the-publication-of-attracting-native-pollinators/"><span style='color:blue'>Attracting Native Pollinators. Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>