Boise State University Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior PhD student Carolina Granthon received the William C. Andersen Memorial Award for Best PhD-level Student Paper at the Annual Meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation in October 2025. The William C. Andersen Memorial Awards are given to both the best student oral and poster presentations at the annual meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation. Granthon will receive $525 and waived page charges to publish her research in the Journal of Raptor Research. Granthon’s major advisor is Raptor Research Center Director and Department of Biological Sciences Professor Julie Heath.
Granthon’s paper “Factors affecting hatchability in a captive population of California Condors” described her research while working with captive condors at The Peregrine Fund in Boise, Idaho, and her oral presentation of this research commanded the rapt attention of a full room of conference attendees. Co-authors on the paper are Julie Heath, Boise State Assistant Professor Stephanie Galla, Chris McClure (Director of Global Conservation Science, The Peregrine Fund), and Todd Katzner (Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey). The research findings have the potential to inform management decisions for the California Condor captive breeding program.
The Boise State University Raptor Research Center community had more than 25 students, staff, and faculty attend and present at the 2025 annual conference of the Raptor Research Foundation that was held in San José, Costa Rica. Additionally, several Boise State University alumni were at the meeting of about 300 attendees.