The following individuals received Research Grants in 2003:
Keith Bosak: Local effects of conservation policy in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, India.
David Daly: Research of Walter ‘Pete’ Starr Jr. gravesite, on Michael Minaret in Inyo National Forest, CA.
Adam French: Research and documentation of human impacts of recreation in Peruvian Cordilleras.
Paula Hartzell: Glacier Ecology: Macroinvertebrates and their Glacial Habitats.
Anna Marie Heckman: Recreational impacts to indicators of ecological impairment in high elevation ecosystems in North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Parks.
Steve Israel: Structural and metamorphic geology of the Atnarko metamorphic complex, Coast Mountains, British Columbia.
Matt Kinsey: Cerebral blood volume changes during treatment of acute mountain sickness measured with near infrared spectroscopy.
David Lovejoy: Snowpack structure, snow metamorphism, and climate on Nevado Cayambe, Ecuador.
Jeff Munroe: Detecting latest Holocene climate change in the North Unita Mountains through repeat photography.
Amy Townsend-Small: Stable isotopes as an indicator of nutrient cycling, organic matter transport, and hydrologic regime in the Andean Headwaters of the Amazon River.
Simon Trautman: Creep velocities as indicators of wet snow stability in the Bridger Range, Montana.
Emanuel Voyiaziakis: Review of current frostbite treatment therapies, research and patient case histories from Mont Blanc Massif.