Support of efforts to develop alternative methods for the disposal of radioactive wastes and investigations into contamination from Department of Energy nuclear weapons production facilities.

Grant in support of a University of California at Berkeley, graduate student’s research on the ecology of insect communities in cornfields in Mexico.

Support of a publication on the conservation, applications, and implications of tree ring studies (dendrochronological resources). A reprint of the resultant article “Conservation and Stewardship of Tree-Ring Resources: Living Trees and Subfossil Wood”, from the Natural Areas Journal is included in the folder.

Funding towards a study of the inhibitory properties of chemicals produced in an herb of the Florida scrub, Polygonella myriophylla. These chemicals serve to reduce competition by other plant species in the community.

In support of the preparation of a technical report on the impacts of offshore oil on Florida’s coral reefs.

Grant in support of a study of the North American representatives of the genus Picea, the spruces.

Funding was provided to reproduce and distribute a guide to household recycling and waste separation.