Grants Awarded
2023: $5000 – Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RADs).
2023: $2500 - UF TCD Practitioner Experience Award.
2023: The Explorers Club (Exploration Fund Grant), $5000.
2023: University of Florida Biodiversity Institute (UFBI), $5000.
2023: Michael L. May Interdisciplinary Grant, UF Biology department, $1000.
2022: Rufford Small grant, £6000.
2022:Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research, $750.
2022: UFBI Summer Fellowship, $4000.
2022: Center for African Studies, summer 2022 pre-dissertation research awards, $1000.
2022: Michael L. May Research Grants 2022, UF Biology department $300.
2017: National Geographic Grant, "From big to small: how wildlife loss and land-use change impact invertebrate communities in Kenya." Grant amount awarded $7500.
2016: Nature Kenya & Birdlife International, Evaluation of Macroinvertebrates as indicators of environmental health in in Mukurweini and Kianyaga valleys, Kenya. Grant amount awarded $1000.
2016: Kenya Bird Map, Mapping bird’s species at the Kenyan Coast. Grant amount awarded $500.
2016: Idea Wild, Mapping and Conservation of Hunter’s Cisticola bird in Mt. Kenya Ecosystem. Grant amount awarded. Grant amount awarded $450.
Fellowships, Honors and awards
2023: Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) fellowship, Center for Latin America, University of Florida $22,000.
2022: Recognition as an academic member of alpha chapter at University of Florida.
2021: University of Florida Graduate Assistantship – to study PhD in Zoology.
2017: Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP) – to study master’s degree in Limnology and Wetland Management, € 100,844.
Scientific publications
2023: $5000 – Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RADs).
2023: $2500 - UF TCD Practitioner Experience Award.
2023: The Explorers Club (Exploration Fund Grant), $5000.
2023: University of Florida Biodiversity Institute (UFBI), $5000.
2023: Michael L. May Interdisciplinary Grant, UF Biology department, $1000.
2022: Rufford Small grant, £6000.
2022:Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research, $750.
2022: UFBI Summer Fellowship, $4000.
2022: Center for African Studies, summer 2022 pre-dissertation research awards, $1000.
2022: Michael L. May Research Grants 2022, UF Biology department $300.
2017: National Geographic Grant, "From big to small: how wildlife loss and land-use change impact invertebrate communities in Kenya." Grant amount awarded $7500.
2016: Nature Kenya & Birdlife International, Evaluation of Macroinvertebrates as indicators of environmental health in in Mukurweini and Kianyaga valleys, Kenya. Grant amount awarded $1000.
2016: Kenya Bird Map, Mapping bird’s species at the Kenyan Coast. Grant amount awarded $500.
2016: Idea Wild, Mapping and Conservation of Hunter’s Cisticola bird in Mt. Kenya Ecosystem. Grant amount awarded. Grant amount awarded $450.
Fellowships, Honors and awards
2023: Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) fellowship, Center for Latin America, University of Florida $22,000.
2022: Recognition as an academic member of alpha chapter at University of Florida.
2021: University of Florida Graduate Assistantship – to study PhD in Zoology.
2017: Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP) – to study master’s degree in Limnology and Wetland Management, € 100,844.
Scientific publications
- Benjamin, J. M., Abuya, D., Omollo, B., & Merimba, C. (2023). Longitudinal patterns of abundance, diversity and functional feeding guilds of benthic communities in East African tropical high-altitude streams. African Journal of Ecology, 00, 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13177
- Benjamin, J.M., D.K. Abuya, C. Merimba (2021). Longitudinal trends in macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups in a high-altitude tropical stream (a case study of Gura River). Egerton Journal of Science and Technology, 18, 1–18. Retrieved from https://eujournal.egerton.ac.ke/index.php/EJ/article/view/58
- Benjamin, J.M., & Graf W. Further evidence of phoretic association between Heptageniidae Afronurus (mayfly) and Simulium (blackfly) in Gura River, Kenya. In preparation for submission to Biological Society of Linnean Society.