Fellowships and Grants

• 2005- Rufford Small Grants (U$ 6,100) and Denver Zoological Foundation (U$ 5,000). Project: “The impact of puma predation and human harassment on two species of threatened wild South American camelids: a regional and seasonal assessment in protected areas of northwestern Argentina”.

• 2004- Idea Wild (U$ 750), Lincoln Park Scott Neotropic Fund (U$ 3,570), Rufford Small Grants (U$ 4,000), Graduate School (UWYO) Grants for Summer Research (U$ 2,200), and Denver Zoological Foundation (U$ 3,000). Project: “Mortality factors affecting sympatric populations of vicuñas and guanacos in the Argentinean Puna”.

• 2003- Professional Enhancement Grant presented by the Institute of International Education for travel for research purposes (U$ 500). Project: “Diet, morphology, and interspecific killing in Carnivora”.

• 2002- 2005 Full Tuition Waiver, University of Wyoming, WY (U$ 30,000).

• 2002- 2005 Fulbright Fellowship presented by the State Department of the US (U$ 28,000).

• 1998-1999 Student training fellowship from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (U$ 3,000). Project: “Trophic and spatial relationships in two lizard assemblages in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina”.

• 1995- Lincoln Park Scott Neotropic Fund (U$ 4,500) and the Argentine Wildlife Traders Association (U$ 4,000). Project: “Conservation of the common hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus chinga, Mustelidae) in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina”.