James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
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Any contribution of $10 receives: You get thanked on my website (if you are okay with your name being displayed) on a special donors page 2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $20 receives: In addition to getting thanked on my website, you get an awesome 5x7 print picture of one of the bee species involved in my research (see here: http://schamber.wordpress.com/bee-pictures/) 6 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $50 receives: All above, but two 5x7 print pictures of your choosing 2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $100 receives: All above, but three 5x7 print pictures of your choosing 3 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $250 receives: All above, but one framed 8x10 print picture of your choosing
Any contribution of $500 receives: All above, plus a live discussion with me to ask any questions you like about the research
Started by Scott Chamberlain October 31st, 2011
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This is a #SciFund project.
Agriculture covers nearly 40% of all land on the planet. Within this agricultural landscape weedy and also native plants occur. Even as farmers are concerned about increasingly aggressive weeds, conservationists are concerned about the preservation of biodiversity across the globe. We don't know if wild plants are adapting to agricultural lands differently than wild lands.
Is evolution proceeding just as it does in our pristine National Parks? Or is evolution altered in some significant way in agricultural landscapes? If the evolution of native plants is altered in agricultural landscapes we need to measure the extent to which it happens, and get out there and fix, or at least ameliorate, the problem.
My research seeks to answer the question: Is evolution of native plants altered in agricultural landscapes? What I have found so far is very interesting. The main organisms driving evolution of flower traits, bees, are more abundant near sunflower crops, but are less diverse across the landscape near this single crop type. This reduced diversity of bees likely influences evolution of the wild sunflowers.
As my study species is a native plant, my research will help us understand if evolution is altered in agricultural lands, and what we may be able to do about it. In addition, because my study species is also a weed in fields, this research will help us understand the evolution of agricultural weeds.
Your support will pay student researchers to work in the lab on my project. They will measure flower traits, quantify defense hairs on leaves, and count pollen grains deposited on flower stigmas. These data will allow me to determine how agriculture is influencing evolution of 1) individual flowers, and 2) defense hairs on leaves. Also, figuring out the number of pollen grains deposited on flowers will allow me to determine how changes in pollinators near crops contribute to the evolution of wild sunflowers.
Thanks in advance for your donation!