2022 Award Recipients
Early Grants
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Frannie Adams
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Influences of brackish river water salinity gradients on greenhouse gas fluxes of disturbed and undisturbed mangrove ecosystems
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Namrata Ahuja
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An exploration of the local diversity in the Atlantic
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Robert Anderson
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The effects of climate change on plant community composition in western Wyoming, and implications for wildlife migration
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Henry Camarillo
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Evolutionary biomechanics of feeding performance in lungless salamanders (Family: Plethodontidae)
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Jonathan Gewirtzman
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Toward biological understanding and ecosystem scale quantification of methane emissions from temperate forest trees
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Emma Grover
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Influence of developmental stage and life history on leaf traits in tropical rain forest trees
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Janey Lienau
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Ground beetle nitrogen cycling in eastern temperate forests
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Urmila Mallick
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Differentiating livestock - and wildlife-mediated soil carbon storage in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi landscape
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Cameron McKenzie
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Vertical niche differentiation as a driver of Epiphyte diversity in a neotropical premontane cloud forest
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Sydney Nelson
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Measuring prevalence and distribution of ranavirus in a metapopulation of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvatica) in a suburban setting
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Oluwatobi Oso
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Developmental anatomy and evolution of overwintering buds in Viburnum
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Josh Randall
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Phenotypic plasticity and evolution in viburnum following glacial recession
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Rachel Renne
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Investigating shrub-grass interactions in big sagebrush ecosystems
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Abby Skwara
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A novel statistical approach to predict the structure-function landscape of ecological systems
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Julia Wood
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Phylogeography and systematics of Percidae using ultraconserved elements
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Joseph Zailaa
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Investigating the drivers of evaporative leaf water loss in diverse native-California species
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Late Grants
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Yara Alshwairikh
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Past, present and future adaptation: forecasting future climate risk from the genomes of wood frogs
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Brooke Bodensteiner
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Do viviparous lizards and snakes face a heightened risk from climate change?
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Nicholas Brown
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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
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Anri Chomentowska
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Investigating the evolution of syndromes: life history, mating system, and environmental niche of a desert-alpine lineage in the plant family Montiaceae
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Alexa Duchesneau
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White-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) Nutritional Goals, Life History and Fitness in a Changing Climate
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Diego Ellis Soto
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Responses of birds and mammals to ENSO allow iterative forecasting of species responses to climatic events in the Galapagos
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Caleb Gordon
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Evaluating the interplay of limb anatomy and extinction risk in the fossil record of aquatic reptiles
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Spencer Irvine
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Morphometric analysis of primate hips and knees in relation to leaping behavior
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Kelsey Jenkins
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The Early Evolution and Radiation of Reptiles
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Katherine Meier
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Fruits and floods: gorilla, chimpanzee, and elephant diets in a seasonally-flooded peat swamp forest
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Lauren Mellenthin
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Stiffness of senescing: determining adult medusae age of Long Island Sound jellyfish species (Cyanea capillata) using material properties
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Nathalie Sommer
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Animal-driven soil biogeochemical cycles under climate variability
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Daniel Stadtmauer
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A spatially-resolved view of the evolution of cellular niches in the endometrium of viviparous mammals
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Shoko Yamada
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Toxicity, remediation, and land transformations in post-industrial Japan
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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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