2023 Award Recipients

Early Grants 

Nathalie Alomar	Hidden dimensions of diversity in woodland salamanders
Aishwarya Bhandari	Snow leopard (Panther uncia) density site in Ladakh, India
Seung Hee Chae	Investigating the feasibility of using nanobubble-enabled advanced oxidation
Andie Creel	National recreation demand modeling
Arun Dayanandan	Harnessing novel forest successional trajectories of mixed-species forest plantation systems to mitigate climate change impacts
Lisa Freisem	Early development of the mid- and hindbrain in saurians
Gabriel Gadsden	Drivers of neighborhood rodent communities and their zoonotic pathogens in Philadelphia
Stacey Gerasimov	Investigating a link between supercontinent breakup, carbon cycle dynamics, and the diversification of animal life
Elly Goetz	Investigating the molecular diversity of foraminiferal propagules in the Arctic using eDNA metabarcoding
Gryphen Goss	Dynamic behavior of the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet during the Mid-Pleistocene
Vincent Haller	Modelling forest biomass for Redd+ at local scale - a pilot study in evergreen forests of the Chiloe Island, Chile
Arata Honda	A mysterious marsupial medley in New Guinea’s forest canopy
Noah Houpt	The influence of niche construction on the repeatabliity of evolution in bacteria
Swathi Nachiar Manivannan	Characterizing phenotypic differences of Vibrio cholerae in external and host environments
Elizabeth Nowlin	Assessing how historical variation in urban neighborhood housing and greenspace development is linked to contemporary mammal biodiversity in cities
Emmanuel Oduro Takyi	Determinants of variations in fire-induced tree mortality in a savanna biome
Kate Pippenger	Reconstructing the mid-Paleozoic evolution of bioturbation in the Great Basin
Gino Rivera Bulnes	Spatial distribution of human-carnivore interactions in Ica Valley
Will Rogers	How do infections affect prey responses to predator cues?
Silvina Slagter	Testing the use of Ge/Si ratios as a proxy for the fossilization of Earth’s earliest animal ecosystems
Helen Stone	Phenotypic adaptation of viruses to seasonal fluctuations in temperature
Samantha Tracy	Corticosteroid and thyroid hormone as biochemical markers of temperature induced stress in Rana sylvatica
Sam Wilson	Remote sensing investigations of the Big Sagebrush Ecoregion

Late Grants 

Logan Billet	Ranavirus die-off timing and synchrony: does pathogen accumulation play a role?
Scott Carpenter	The future of a migration pathway and winter forage bank: examining the effects of climate change and grazing on the stablity of big sagebrush plant communities
Annie Haws	Matemorphic carbon dioxide fluxes to the atmosphere: implications for long-term climate evolution and anthropogenic carbon sequestration
Aishwarya Iyer	Residential buildings in urban India: energy efficiency and thermal comfort in the future
Inhyeong Jeon	Thermosensitive polymers for control of surface interactions in sustainable small-scale water treatment systems
Julia Laterza Barbosa	Does arboreality influence the evolution of hydrothermal physiology in neotropical frogs?
Kate McNally	Newfoundland ghost nets: fathoming commercial fisheries and the debris of empire
Alexie Millikin	Re-Os geochronology & stratigraphy of the Transvaal Supergroup: assessing the link between oxygenation and climatic change during the early Paleoproterozoic
Liam Taylor	Social development, plumage development, and the evolution of adolescence in a colony-nesting seabird (Herring Gulls, Larus argentatus)

2022 Award Recipients

Early Grants 

Frannie Adams	Influences of brackish river water salinity gradients on greenhouse gas fluxes of disturbed and undisturbed mangrove ecosystems
Namrata Ahuja	An exploration of the local diversity in the Atlantic
Robert Anderson	The effects of climate change on plant community composition in western Wyoming, and implications for wildlife migration
Henry Camarillo	Evolutionary biomechanics of feeding performance in lungless salamanders (Family: Plethodontidae)
Jonathan Gewirtzman	Toward biological understanding and ecosystem scale quantification of methane emissions from temperate forest trees
Emma Grover	Influence of developmental stage and life history on leaf traits in tropical rain forest trees
Janey Lienau	Ground beetle nitrogen cycling in eastern temperate forests
Urmila Mallick	Differentiating livestock - and wildlife-mediated soil carbon storage in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi landscape
Cameron McKenzie	Vertical niche differentiation as a driver of Epiphyte diversity in a neotropical premontane cloud forest
Sydney Nelson	Measuring prevalence and distribution of ranavirus in a metapopulation of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvatica) in a suburban setting
Oluwatobi Oso	Developmental anatomy and evolution of overwintering buds in Viburnum
Josh Randall	Phenotypic plasticity and evolution in viburnum following glacial recession
Rachel Renne	Investigating shrub-grass interactions in big sagebrush ecosystems
Abby Skwara	A novel statistical approach to predict the structure-function landscape of ecological systems
Julia Wood	Phylogeography and systematics of Percidae using ultraconserved elements
Joseph Zailaa	Investigating the drivers of evaporative leaf water loss in diverse native-California species

Late Grants 

Yara Alshwairikh	Past, present and future adaptation: forecasting future climate risk from the genomes of wood frogs
Brooke Bodensteiner	Do viviparous lizards and snakes face a heightened risk from climate change?
Nicholas Brown	Assessing pre-hispanic late holocene change in domesticated camelid diet and mobility at the high-altitude archaeological site of Chawin Punta in the Andes of Pasco, Peru
Anri Chomentowska	Investigating the evolution of syndromes: life history, mating system, and environmental niche of a desert-alpine lineage in the plant family Montiaceae
Alexa Duchesneau	White-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) Nutritional Goals, Life History and Fitness in a Changing Climate
Diego Ellis Soto	Responses of birds and mammals to ENSO allow iterative forecasting of species responses to climatic events in the Galapagos
Caleb Gordon	Evaluating the interplay of limb anatomy and extinction risk in the fossil record of aquatic reptiles
Spencer Irvine	Morphometric analysis of primate hips and knees in relation to leaping behavior
Kelsey Jenkins	The Early Evolution and Radiation of Reptiles
Katherine Meier	Fruits and floods: gorilla, chimpanzee, and elephant diets in a seasonally-flooded peat swamp forest
Lauren Mellenthin	Stiffness of senescing: determining adult medusae age of Long Island Sound jellyfish species (Cyanea capillata) using material properties
Nathalie Sommer	Animal-driven soil biogeochemical cycles under climate variability
Daniel Stadtmauer	A spatially-resolved view of the evolution of cellular niches in the endometrium of viviparous mammals
Shoko Yamada	Toxicity, remediation, and land transformations in post-industrial Japan

2021 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

Wyatt Arnold	Development of a bio-based tool for quantifying wetland methane emissions
Arielle Biro	Quantifying nitrogen fixation rates in savanna ecosystems
Matthew Dougherty	Environmental DNA monitors Alewives (Alosa Pseudoharengus) as invaders and species of conservation concern
Kristy Ferraro	Experimentally exploring the role of ungulate calving sites on nutrient cycling
Elyse Parker	Integrating genetics, morphology, and ecology to investigate species boundaries and infer the evolutionary history of a non-Antarctic Notothenioid radiation (Notothenioidei: Pathagonotothen)
Jack Shaw	Disentangling deep-time food webs

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Roxanne Armfield	Exploring the evolution of Alethinophidian snake cranial anatomy from a musculoskeletal perspective
Logan Billet	Exploring the causes and consequences of Rana virus epidemics in a Wood Frog metapopulation experiencing recurring mass mortality events
Scott Carpenter	Plant community response to a large-scale mortality event in big sage brush systems
Hayon Michelle Choi	Effect modification of greenness on temperature-mortality relationship, using a multi-country, multi-city dataset
Alexander Polussa	Fine spatial resolution of Saprotrophic fungal functional traits
Alex Ruebenstahl	Using skeletal correlates in the skull and palate to investigate major shifts in Archosaur respiration
Christian Espinosa Schatz	Climate knowledge and Agrarian practice: Mayan highlanders’ responses to climate change
Akshay Surendra	Soil or soil microbes? Experimentally disentangling below-ground biotic and abiotic drivers of tree-habitat associations in a mixed-Dipterocarp forest

Masters Awards

Vivian Bi	Mitigation, Migration, and Modernization: Accumulating difference in household energy transitions in peri-urban Beijing
Jacqueline Buonfiglio	Consumptive and non-consumptive effects on grouse and indirect effects on primary producers from predation by Alaskan gyrfalcons
Francis Commercon	Collaborative networks for Chinese migratory shorebird conservation
Lloyd Farley	Prickly Pear Paradigms: Scientific knowledge production in North Africa
Ben Girgenti	Plugging Holes in Natural Climate Solutions: The effects of iron soil amendments on methane emissions through Pontederia Cordata and Acorus Americanus
Aarthi Kannan	Estimating the population and density of Indian Wolves in Koppal District, India using non-invasive genetic sampling and a spatially explicit capture recapture framework
Carolyn Savoldelli	Upland Marsh Migration: Quantifying ecotone response to sea-level rise and large storm events
Uthara Vengrai	Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics across grazing intensities and variable precipitation

 

2020 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

A. Arietta	Evolution of intrinsic rates: Disentangling processes of local adaptation to climate change
Mike Blazanin	Developing a high-throughput assay for bacteria-phage interactions
T.C. Chakraborty	The biophysical impacts of aerosols: Long-term feedback and urban-scale interactions
Alisha Chan	Creating a sense of community and perceptions of flood risk security for flash flood victims through stormwater stewardship
Carlye Chaney	Endocrine-distrupting chemical exposure and developmental programming in the Qom of Argentina
Bukhchuluun Deshazeveg	Bronze Age mortuary practices of pastoral nomads of Mongolia: Adaptation, interaction, and social changes
Chelsea Jack	Hemp: A revival
Borina Kalderon Asael	Using Li isotopes to track carbon-silica cycle evolution
Daniel Smith Parades	The musculoskeletal evolution and development of turtle trochlear and neck retracting mechanisms
Megan Sullivan	Detecting changes to biodiversity mechanisms in selectively logged forests using seedling dynamics

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Yara Alshwairikh	Uncovering parallel adaptation in the Wood Frog
Brian Beaty	The bioturbation record of extinction and recovery across the Permo-Triassic of Svalbard
Brooke Lee Bodensteiner	Assessing vulnerability of tropical lizards in a warming world
Aleca Borsuk	Carbon dioxide transport in the intercellular airspaces of the leaf and the photosynthetic response: Testing a new anatomical framework
Anri Chomentowska	Life history and mating system trait evolution in a desert-alpine lineage: A phylogenetic approach
Caleb Gordon	Testing an evolutionary developmental model for the formation of flippers in secondarily aquatic reptiles
Benjamin Hess	Connecting local deformation to regional processes in the Alps with implications for paleotopography and paleobiogeography
Hannah Keller	Environmental impact on ancient human foragers in eastern and southern Africa
Jasmine Mah	The evolution of cell type diversity in Trichoplax adhaerens
Dalton Meyer	Investigating squamate evolution through computed tomography
Tom Reershemius Matras	Sands of time: Putting numbers on the Archaean silica cycle
Nathalie Sommer	Linking functional forms of phenotypic plasticity to ecosystem stoichiometry
Wayne Strojie	Expanding carbonate-based Oligocene pCO2 (atm) records using the d11B pH-pCO2 proxy with emphasis on the Late Oligocene Warming Event (L.O.W.E.)
Elisabeth Ward	Towards a mechanistic understanding of the relationships between disturbance, plant invasions, and soil nutrient availability in temperate hardwood forests

Masters Awards

Itai Boneh	Fe(III)’s effect on methane emissions from Ientic systems
Damaris Chenoweth	Modeling the regeneration of big sagebrush communities at disturbances due to oil and gas extraction
Rebecca Dube	Investigating the forest-to-marsh transition zones and historical extent of marsh migration in Barn Island, Connecticut
Nora Hardy	Floodplain wetland vegetation recovery trajectories at dam removal sites in Connecticut
Minne Min Ying Li	Three-dimensional urban structure modeling by declassified remote sensed imagery
Qinrui Xiahou	How international investment affects the energy development: Evidence from Asia’s coal power plants
Anelise Zimmer	Identifying locations for climate resilient coral reef restoration in Maunalua Bay, Hawaii

 

2019 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

Kelly Aho	Controls on GHG evasion from streams and rivers
Mary Burak	Spatial-Genetic Applications for Apex Predator Conservation in a Changing Ecosystem
Paul Burow	Social and Cultural Impacts of Native and Nonnative Species on Great Basin Landscapes and Livelihoods
Alejandro Damian Serrano	Identifying the diets of siphonophores in the Offshore Northern California Current Ecosystem
Daniel Gaskell	Constraining ontogenetic controls on planktonic foraminiferal metabolism and stable isotopes by live culturing in Bermuda
Stephen Gaughran	Modelling fitness effects in endangered and abundant seal species
Christopher Hebdon	Swidden-fallow Agroforestry Knowledge in Ecuador: Farmer and Governmental Perspectives
Nicolas Mongiardino Koch	Phylogenetics as a key to the macroevolutionary history of sea urchins
Jasmina Weimann	Characterizing phylogenetic information retained in Metazoan protein fossilization products
Wen Zhou	The new concessionary regimes of Gabon, Central Africa

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Kristy Barnes	Identifying and Quantifying Nutrient Vectors of Rangifer Migration
Asa Cameron	Crafting the nomadic state: Isotopic perspectives into pastoral practices and mobility in Mongolia from the Late Bronze Age through the Xiongnu Period.
Cassandra Clark	Evaluating the utility of spatial and activity-based exposure metrics for use in assessing exposure to carcinogens from unconventional oil and gas development in drinking water
Danica Doroski	Urban Forest Stand Dynamics and Restoration Pathways
Erica Evans	Investigating the influence of ice sheet substrate on accelerated melting: Faster flows on bedrock or regolith?
Ava Ghezelayagh	Do Fishes Diversify Faster in Freshwater? A Comparative Analysis of Ostariophysi and Percomorpha
Chelsea Jack	Hemp: An American Revival
Vanna Choo Sze	Terratory Making: The Creation of Land and Social Relations in Singapore
Manon Lefevre	Birth Control as an Environmental Priority: Interrogating the link between overpopulation and climate change in Madagascar
Alexie Millikin	Proterozoic environmental change and drivers of early eukaryotic diversification
Katherine Orrick	Theoretical Framework for Human-Wildlife Conflict
Chantal Parker	Species delimitation and phylogenetic analysis of Trematomus (Notothenioidei: Nototheniidae) using restriction site associated DNA sequencing
Mansa Srivastav	Testing biogeographic patterns in the Himalayan-Tibetan mountain system using the plant lineage Lonicera
Daniel Stadmauer	Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Opossum Pregnancy

 

2018 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

Matteo Fabbri	Evo-devo approach for understanding the mechanism behind encephalization in modern birds
Jessica Glass	Spatial and temporal trophic variability of a marine teleost predator, the Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
Nikunj Goel	The importance of dispersal in determining the resilience of alternative stable state ecosystems
Michael Hanson	Embryonic development of bird cranial muscles
Amanda Leiss	Paleoenvironmental context of Early Stone Age Archaeology: An analysis of the Gona fauna between ~3 and 1 Ma.
Daniel MacGuigan	Testing Ecological Speciation Using Intraspecific Contrasts
Franz Simon	Does diet switching of mysids generate compensatory dynamics during low productivity years in the Guadalquivir River estuary?
Siyang Xia	Comparing oviposition preference for multiple environmental variables between forest and domestic Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Alyssa Arre	Investigating the effects of early life stress on social competence development in rhesus macaques
Emily Briggs	Assessing the effects of land-use change and forest cover loss on the demography of black-and-gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) and owl monkeys (Aotus azarai) in the South American Gran Chaco
Paul Burrow	Ecologies of Belonging: Piñon-Juniper Woodlands and the Cultural Politics of Nature in North America’s Great Basin
Alejandro Damian Serrano	Characterizing the functional morphology of siphonophore tentilla
Matthew Dougherty	The Influence of Ecosystem Size on Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks in Alewife (Alosa Psuedoharengus)
Hanna Ehrlich	Understanding the Role of Mosquitos as Reservoirs of Antimalarial Drug Resistance
Sappho Gilbert	Arctic climatic extremes and country food security: a qualitative study in two Inuit communities in Nunavut, Canada
Dae-Min Kim	Invasive Genetics of Lepomis auritus (Teleostei, Centrarchidae)
Morgan Moeglein	Leaf developmental plasticity recapitulates worldwide leaf shape trends in Viburnum
Kyra Prats	Embolism vulnerability in Australian ferns, using recently developed methods
Daniel Smith Paredes	The wing muscles development and the embryological basis for flight evolution and loss in birds
Mario Soriano Jr.	Towards a quantitative framework for evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water wells to contamination from unconventional shale gas development
Sophie Westacott	Does radiolarian morphology reflect seawater silicon concentration? A geographical approach
Wen Zhou	Chinese forestry investments in Central Africa

 

2017 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

Erica Barth-Naftilan	Spatial and Temporal Trends in Methane and Ethane Surrounding Shale Gas Development
Janet Burke	Exploring metabolism and morphology of live planktonic foraminifera in Bermuda
Madelon Case	Root-niche partitioning by trees and grasses across rainfall and soil gradients in an African savanna
Elaine Gomez Guevara	Epigenetics of Primate Longevity
Emily Oldfield	Quantifying the relationship between soil organic matter and fertility
Katie Owers	Urban slum leptospirosis: Environmental determinants of infection and the effect of previous exposure on reinfection risk
Juan Penagos Zuluaga	Ecology and evolution of breeding systems in the Lauraceae
Jon Powell	Enabling and Enhancing Sustainable Materials Management through Waste Informatics
Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong	Evolution of structural color in Viburnum fruits

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Mary Burak	A landscape genetics approach to assessing human-lion coexistence in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania
TC Chakraborty	Investigating the impact of different levels of air pollution on the coupling between surface and canopy urban heat islands
Christopher Dutton	Frequent hypoxic floods of the Mara River: the role of hippo pools and microbes in structuring the aquatic ecosystem
Yufang Gao	Monitoring livestock depredation by large carnivores in Nyanpo Yutse on the eastern Tibetan Plateau
Stephen Gaughran	Investigating the Genetics of Extinction: a case study in monk seals
Juri Miyamae	Knowing the Nose:  Comparative Anatomy of Mammalian Proboscis Musculature
Nicolas Mongiardino Koch	Resolving the backbone of the sea urchin tree of life with a transcriptomic approach
Julia Monk	Puma predation, scavenging, and the fate of nutrients in the High Andes
Megan Sullivan	Effects of selective logging on Afro-tropical forests and implications for sustainability
Anna Vinton	Evolutionary Rescue in Nature: A modeling approach

Masters Awards

Kevin Dahms	Short Term Sediment Dynamics of Estuaries Under Altered Tidal Conditions
Adam Eichenwald	Consumptive and non-consumptive effects on grouse and indirect effects on primary producers from predation by Alaskan gyrfalcons
Cameron Musser	Synchrotron X-ray microtomography analysis of Pinus ponderosa needle plasticity in response to drought
Elisabeth Ward	Restoring New York’s urban forests: Effects of invasive vines on tree growth and carbon and nitrogen dynamics
Weiyang Zhao	Assessing the effects of herbivory, elevation and microclimatic conditions on the regeneration of transitional forests of Cen Wang Lao Shan, Guangxi, southern China

 

2016 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

David Auerbach	Understanding the evolution of the Patagonian rain shadow through the Cenozoic
Katelyn Gray	Reconstructing terrestrial climates using gar scales
Lan Jin	Air pollution and adverse birth outcomes in Lanzhou, China
Daniel Field	Origin of the modern avian locomotor apparatus across a neglected evolutionary interval
Jia Liu	Effects of wildfire smoke on population health in the western U.S. under climate change
Hui Li	New internal biothermometer in biomass-PO4 to study vent macrobiota at the seafloor and microbial life beneath the seafloor
Holger Petermann	Influence of changes in climate on squamate growth: Implications for future biodiversity loss
Natalie Schultz	Quantitative analysis of the effects of land cover change on climate extremes
Noah Sokol	From plant carbon to stable soil organic carbon: Is the path travelled as important as the input itself?
Steve Whittaker	Ambient air pollution per specific land use features in the Eastern Caribbean region
Michelle Young	Land management practices and ecological verticality: A study of prehispanic environmental adaptation strategies at Atalla, Huancavelica, Peru
Yiqi Zheng	Using relationships between photosynthesis and formaldehyde column as a probe of isoprene emission

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Janet Burke	Planktonic foraminiferal morphology and porosity in a cooling ocean
Chloe Chen-Kraus	Assessing impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on lemurs at Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar
Devon Cole	Silica cycling through the biosphere across the Permian-Triassic Extinction
Matteo Fabbri	4D dynamics of cells and tissues to revolutionize neurogenesis in Archosauria
Jessica Glass	A comparison of stable isotope analytical techniques for a marine teleost predator, the Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
Michael Hanson	The development and evolution of cranial kinesis in birds
Myles Lennon	Diversifying the solar market from the top-down and bottom-up
Daniel MacGuigan	Environmental effects on genomic signatures of hybridization
Jon Powell	Establishing waste informatics to mitigate materials management impacts to the terrestrial biosphere
Peter Umunay	Quantifying emissions from human-induced causes of forest degradation in the Congo Basin Region
Christopher Whalen	Phylogenetic systematics of pan-Gnathostomata
Siyang Xia	Oviposition preference in sylvatic and domestic populations of Aedes aegypti in Gabon

Masters Awards

Eliabeth Creech	Stream surface light availability given stream order and riparian vegetation type
Danica Doroski	Techniques for natural regeneration in urban forests
Taylor Ganz	Impacts of air pollutants on alpine snowpacks in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming
Juliana Hanle	Relationships between bird abundance and diversity with post-harvest forest stand structure
Rachel Lowenthal	Influence of land cover on phosphorus loads during storm events in Connecticut’s Farmington River watershed
Mariana Vedeveto	Financial mechanisms for investments in water infrastructure in Brazil
Christine Weiss	Genetic analysis of aboveground/belowground relationships between trees and other organisms
Katherine Wolf	Residential racial and ethnic segregation and particulate air pollution levels in the United States
Lucia Woo	Assessing potential human health impacts from wildfire smoke exposure in Alaskan communities

 

2015 Award Recipients

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

Ross Anderson	Environmental controls on the Neoproterozoic (1000-541 million years ago) microfossil record from shales: Implications for the record of eukaryotic crown group diversification
Colin Donihue	Putting trait variation in context: Understanding the impact of lizard hunting mode switching in human contexts
Marlyse Duguid	Understory plant community response to forest management in a second-growth hardwood forest of the eastern United States
Daniel Field	Origin of the modern avian locomotor apparatus across a neglected evolutionary interval
Jia Liu	Effects of wildfire smoke on population health in the western U.S. under climate change
Valerie Morley	Tracking allele frequencies in virus populations adapting to different rates of environmental change
Brian Park	Understanding the adaptive significance of sterile marginal flowers in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)
Amelia Sancillo	Aging variation in women: A comparative study of reproduction, activity, and senescence
Elizabeth Spriggs	Phylogeny, phylogeography, and trait evolution in North American Viburnum
Asuza Takeshi	Towards understanding the aerosol-convection relationships during the PECAN field campaign
Lily Zeng	Transformations of indigenous knowledge and changing meanings of sacred nature in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Eric Bellefroid	Linking terrestrial geochemical cycles into global biogeochemical systems
Larry Bowman	Characterizing intraspecific variation in freshwater foodwebs
Madelon Case	Implications of changing rainfall intensity for tree-grass dynamics in savannas
Elizabeth Clark	3D locomotion modeling of an enigmatic echinoderm body plan
Elise Elliott	Evaluation of residential proximity to shale gas development and concentrations of drinking water contaminants
Lan Jin	Traffic pollution and congenital heart defects in Lanzhou city, China: a land use regression modeling study
Zachary McGraw	Refining wind speed variability in a global climate model: the construction of a dynamic statistical framework for near-surface winds
Andrew Muehleisen	Interspecific sensitivity to experimental drought of Neotropical tree seedling
Katherine Owers	Using GPS to quantify human movement and risk of environmental exposure to leptospirosis in an urban slum setting
Carlos Penagos Zuluaga	Ecology and evolution of the gynodioecious breeding system in early-divergent flowering plants

Masters Awards

Lara Iwanicki	Marine protected areas effectiveness – Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
Gina LaCerva	Wild and toxic: Perceptions of purity in Arctic subsistence foods
Amber Roman	Understanding natural amphibian sex ratios through field and museum specimens
Kyra Prats	Relating drought to spatial and temporal changes in Quercus suber leaf morphology in Spain
Alexandra Todorovic-Jones	Banj oak’s susceptibility to climate change
Meredith VanAcker	The role of predation and parasitism in grassland food webs
Agnes Walton	Planting adaptation in Peru: A study of farmer decision-making for risk management and climate adaptation
Katherine Weber	Nutrient and sediment modeling in the Connecticut River Basin: A comparison of two models

 

2014 Award Recipients

Doctoral Discovery Awards

Timothy Webster

Genomics of primate radiation: Speciation and diversification in the macaques

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards

Colin Donihue	What drives context dependent trait variability in a Greek lizard
Jessamy Doman	The environmental backdrop to early homonid evolution: Paleontology in the Tugen Hills, Kenya
Anobha Gurung	Understanding exposure to traffic related air pollution in urban areas in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Sarah Randle	Making water and remaking space in Los Angeles
Meredith Atwood	Unraveling the ecosystem dynamics of temporary ponds
Elizabeth Christeleit	Late cenozoic glaciation and topographic evolution in the central Patagonian Andes
Kate Hacker	Rodent population dynamics and leptospirosis in urban slum environments
Coco Liu	Effects of wildfire smoke on community population health in the western US under climate change

Doctoral Pilot Awards

Ross Anderson	Investigating the influence of clay minerals on Neoproterozoic microfossil preservation in the Zavkhan terrane, southwestern Mongolia
Kendall Arslanian	Effects of disease burden on reproductive maturity in the Toba population of Argentina
Katelyn Gray	Reconstructing terrestrial climates using gar scales
Elaine Guevara	Genetic and environmental contributions to population-level phenotypic variation in Verraux’s sifaka
Chris Hebdon	Development imaginaries in Ecuador’s “Energy Transition”
Lan Jin	Proximity to heavy traffic and congenital heart defects in Lanzhou, China
Max Lambert	Ontogenetic timing of amphibian sex ratio bias
Dan Maynard	Linking fungal traits to ecosystem function
Fjodor Melnikov	Predicting toxicity of organic by products formed during the conversion of sustainable carbohydrates to y-valerolactone green liquid
Alexandria Moore	Wetland restoration and trophic interactions: Impacts on ecosystem structure and function
Amrutasri Nori-Sarma	Understanding the impacts of air pollution and temperature on public health in Pondicherry, India
Holger Petermann	Sexual dimorphism in growth rates of the Teeid lizard: implications for assessment of growth and age in extinct squamates
Ignacio Quintero	Speciation and range limits in the Andes: origin and maintenance of biodiversity
Samuel Snow	Evolution of male social structure and lek breeding: a new paradigm for sexual conflict
Noah Sokol	Ecosystem impacts of plant invasions: the underground story
Elizabeth Spriggs	Intraspecific trait variation in North American Viburnum and its consequences for macroevolution

Masters Awards

Kelly Aho	Aqueous greenhouse gas flux in the Salmon river watershed
Mikael Cejtin	Fear and foraging: Vicuna responses to puma predation risk in the high Andes
Catherine Kuhn	Improving water resource resilience for arid ranchlands
Hale Morrell	Bird species diversity and abundance in multi-aged shelterwood stands in southern New England
Madeleine Rubenstein	Decoupling direct and indirect effects of atmospheric warming on respiration and decomposition rates of wood-decay fungi
Jeffrey Smith	Cascading ecological effects of landscape moderated biodiversity
Colby Tucker	Dissolved organic carbon cycling in a glacial estuary

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