Below is the list of past Donnelley Fellows. To learn more about postdoctoral opportunities with YIBS, visit our Postdoctoral Fellowships page.
Past Donnelley Postdoctoral Associates |
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| Catherine Davis, Ph.D. | October 2019 - September 2021 |
Sponsor: Pincelli Hull, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Research: Catherine is a paleoceanographer and micropaleontologist. Marine microfossils are one of the richest records of past life on Earth, and Catherine’s career has been focused on understanding how microfossil-forming organisms record their environment and how that record can help us to understand climates of the past and how climate and the biosphere interact on long time scales. Prior to her move to Yale, Catherine completed her MSc at the University of Bristol and PhD at the University of California Davis and spent time as a postdoctoral associate at the University of South Carolina. |
Assistant Professor, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Ph.D. | August 2019 - July 2021 |
Sponsor: Alvaro Sanchez, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Microbial Sciences Institute Research: Maria is an evolutionary ecologist fascinated with bacteria, fungi, and plants. Maria is interested in how ecological dynamics affect evolutionary pathways and how evolution transforms an organism’s ecological interactions. Currently, Maria is a Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow working with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Alvaro Sanchez in the Sanchez lab. Maria’s research examines the importance of community context and global warming in microbial community structure, function, and evolution. Additionally, Maria is interested in microbial communities associated with plants and their roles in plant evolution and adaptation to climate change. |
Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine Irvine, California |
| Freya Rowland, Ph.D. | August 2019 - July 2021 |
Sponsor: David Skelly, Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology, Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research: Freya is an aquatic ecologist who uses experiments, field data, and statistical models to describe ecosystems varying in size from ponds to the Laurentian Great Lakes. Freya has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Wisconsin, a M.S. in aquatic ecology from Miami University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in ecology. Before starting her postdoc at Yale, Freya spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research at the University of Michigan. Currently, Freya is a Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab Dr. David Skelly, a professor at the Yale School of the Environment. She is using wood frogs as a model system to explore questions about population ecology and natural selection. |
Research Ecologist, Columbia Environmental Research Center for the US Geological Survey Columbia, Missouri |
| Anthony Baniaga, Ph.D. | July 2019 - June 2021 |
Sponsor: Michael Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research: Anthony Baniaga joins us from the aromatic coastal scrub and chaparral of Southern California. His postdoctoral research at Yale focuses on documenting how whole genome duplication affects plant form, function, and ecophysiology. Anthony worked as a field botanist for the US Forest Service after receiving his BS in biology with a concentration in ecology at California Polytechnic State University and was awarded his PhD from the University of Arizona. Anthony’s research at Yale focuses on how whole genome duplication affects plant form, function, and ecophysiology using the taxonomically difficult viburnum denatum species complex (Adoxaceae) as a model. Building upon previous work in this system, Anthony is currently documenting the distribution of polyploid populations in this complex. Through the support of the Donnelley Fellowship and the mentorship of Professor Michael Donoghue in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Anthony will ultimately link how having an extra set of chromosomes leads to changes in leaf morphology, function, and where these plants are able to inhabit. |
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA Curator of the Mildred E. Mathias Herbarium, UCLA Los Angeles, California |
| Morgan Furze, Ph.D. | July 2019 - June 2021 |
Sponsor: Craig Brodersen, Associate Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology Research: Morgan Furze is a Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow working with Professor Craig Brodersen in the Yale School of the Environment. Her research in the Brodersen Lab focuses on whole-plant carbon dynamics and its implications for how plants function in response to global change. She integrates tools from plant physiology, forest ecology, and isotope biogeochemistry with micro-CT imaging to explore carbohydrate storage and allocation in ecologically and economically important plants, especially trees. Morgan received her BA from Bucknell University and PhD from Harvard University. |
USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis Davis, California |
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Jessica Kenigson, Ph.D. |
September 2018 - August 2020 |
Sponsor: Mary-Louise Timmermans, Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences Research: Jessica completed her Ph.D. on causes of sea level variability in the North Atlantic Ocean in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. She also completed an M.S. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jessica’s research at Yale focuses on how changes in the Arctic Ocean circulation influence the global ocean circulation and Earth’s climate. She analyzes ocean and atmospheric measurements spanning decades to understand the far-reaching consequences of Arctic Ocean change, including influencing sea level rise in the North Atlantic Ocean. |
Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, Colorado |
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Mahlet Garedew, Ph.D. |
July 2018 - June 2020 |
Sponsor: Paul Anastas, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Prior to joining the Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering at Yale, Mahlet worked with Prof. Saffron and Prof. Jackson at Michigan State University where she received her Ph.D. in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering with a research focus on conversion of biomass to value-added intermediates using pyrolysis and electrocatalysis. More specifically, she investigated the effectiveness of a ruthenium catalyst for improving energy content and stability of phenolic compounds derived from the thermochemical degradation of lignin. Additionally, Mahlet was also part of the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP) and a recipient the ESPP climate, food, energy and water (C-FEW) summer fellowship. Through her involvement in the ESPP program, Mahlet had the opportunity to explore the interdisciplinary aspect of her research. Outside of her research work, Mahlet enjoys working with students and is passionate about mentoring students from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue careers in STEM fields. While in her graduate program, Mahlet volunteered her time working as a tutor and mentor with programs such as Engineering and Science Success Academy, Summer Research Opportunities Program, and College Assistance Migrant Program at Michigan State University. |
Lab Manager, Air Company Princeton, New Jersey |
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Leslie James Robbins, Ph.D. |
September 2018 - June 2020 |
Sponsor: Noah Planavsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Leslie completed his PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, before coming to Yale in the fall of 2018 to conduct his postdoctoral research. He is a geochemist and geobiologist, whose doctoral research focused on using banded iron formations to examine the trace element chemistry of Earth’s early oceans and how changes in trace element abundances may be linked to the evolution of Earth’s biosphere. Here at Yale, Leslie’s research is focused on developing new methods for assessing marine pH conditions in the geological past. The aim is to provide additional constraints marine pH, and by extension atmospheric CO2 levels, during Cenozoic climate events such as the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum. This research utilizes novel isotopic measurements and surface complexation modeling of iron oxides. Leslie is working with Dr. Noah Planavsky in the Department of Geology and Geophysics. |
Assistant Professor, University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan |
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Karolina Heyduk, Ph.D. |
July 2018 - December 2019 |
Sponsor: Erika Edwards, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research: Originally from the Midwest, Karolina completed a bachelors of science in Economics and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. From there she went to the University of Georgia, where she graduated with a PhD in Plant Sciences in 2015. Karolina worked as a post-doc for two years at UGA before coming to Yale. Her research is on the evolution of specialized photosynthetic pathways in plants. She integrates plant physiology, genomics, and phylogenetics to understand how modifications to plant photosynthesis arose, and how they are maintained today. Karolina is working with Dr. Erika Edwards in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. |
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Luke Parry, Ph.D. | February 2018 - December 2019 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Luke completed his PhD on fossil annelids at the University of Bristol in 2017. Prior to coming to Yale he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto in Canada. Luke’s research at Yale focuses on understanding the origin of animal body plans, with particular focus on spiralians (molluscs, segmented worms and their close relatives). Much of this research is on fossil material from the Cambrian Period (541-485 million years ago) as well as comparative work on the morphology and phylogeny of extant organisms. |
Junior Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford Oxford, England |
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Maria Natalia Umana Medina, Ph.D. |
July 2017 - December 2019 |
Sponsor: Liza Comita, Assistant Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Research: Natalia’s research at Yale, aims to identify ecological processes driving shifts in tree community composition and structure along a rainfall gradient in a tropical forest in Panama. |
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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Josh Daskin, Ph.D. |
September 2017 - August 2019 | Research: Josh is a community and conservation ecologist with research focused on (1) how war and its aftermath affect wildlife populations, habitat loss, and human use of natural resources, and (2) how anthropogenic alteration of hydrological regimes affects ecosystems. The latter includes effects on biodiversity of climate- and land use-driven impacts on seasonal inundation patterns in tropical floodplains, and of climate-driven declines in temperate-zone snowpack. |
Director of Conservation, Archbold Biological Station Venus, Florida |
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Ines Zucker, Ph.D. |
October 2016 - October 2018 |
Research: Dr. Ines Zucker’s postdoctoral research in the Elimelech research group focuses on the development of nanotechnology-based solutions for water decontamination, as well as environmental and health impacts of nanotechnology. |
Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering and Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel |
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Oliver Griffith, Ph.D. |
September 2015 - August 2017 |
Sponsor: Gunter Wagner, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Identifying the processes that underpin the evolution of pregnancy in vertebrates, including reptiles; understanding how pregnancy and specifically the evolution of a placenta interacts with the environment, and how this interaction may help or hurt organisms in a changing climate. |
Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia |
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Chun Ho (Jason) Lam, Ph.D. |
July 2015 - June 2017 |
Sponsor: Paul Anastas, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: “A path to fossil-free chemical feedstocks to alleviate global warming: Electrocatalytic upgrading of depolymerized lignin and industrial waste to value-added products” |
Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, China |
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Charlotte O’Brien, Ph.D. |
September 2015 - September 2017 |
Sponsor: Mark Pagani, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Estimating global temperatures for the late Oligocene Epoch, which occurred from about 33.9 to 23 million years ago |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geology, University College London London, England |
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Adam Roddy, Ph.D. |
April 2015 - March 2017 |
Sponsor: Craig Brodersen, Assistant Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Evolutionary transitions in the structure-function relationships of flowers |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University Miami, Florida |
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Lindsey Swierk, Ph.D. |
July 2015 - June 2017 |
Sponsor: David Skelly, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Understanding amphibian responses to suburbanization |
Assistant Research Professor, State University of New York, Binghamton Director of Scientific Research, The Morpho Institute Associate Director of Research, Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies Binghamton, New York |
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Lauren Smith-Ramesh, Ph.D. |
September 1, 2014 - August 31, 2016 |
Sponsor: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Do invasive plants that promote predators fundamentally alter ecosystem functioning? |
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis Knoxville, Tennessee |
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Erin Saupe, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2016 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology & Geophysics Research: Evolution and climate change: Elucidating the controls on species’ responses to 4myr of environmental change in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA |
Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford Oxford, England |
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Peter Cowman, Ph.D. |
May 15, 2014 - May 14, 2016 |
Sponsor: Thomas Near, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Mechanistic processes and genomic evolution in marine biodiversity hotspots: Do coral reefs promote diversity through accelerated rates of molecular change? |
Research Fellow in Ecosystem Dynamics, ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia |
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Sara Kuebbing, Ph.D. |
June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2016 |
Sponsor: Mark Bradford, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Testing predictions in field and laboratory experiments on invasive functional trait analysis, litter decomposition and field litter-addition |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Giovanna Carpi, Ph.D |
July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015 |
Sponsor: Maria Diuk-Wassar, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health Research: Linking vertebrate diversity with tick-borne pathogen species and genome-wide diversity |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana |
| Jesse Berman, Ph.D. | August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2015 |
Sponsor: Michelle Bell, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Research to examine how drought in the United States affects levels of airborne particles and thereby impacts the risk of mortality and illness for respiratory diseases |
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Susanna Messinger, Ph.D. | July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2014 |
Sponsor: David Vasseur, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Understanding the mechanisms governing the distribution and abundance of the more than 8 million species that inhabit earth |
Business Intelligence Manager, Zions Bancorporation Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Arthur Middleton, Ph.D. | September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014 |
Sponsor: David Skelly, Professor of Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Linking prey behavior to population and ecosystem-level pattern: What drives variation in the strength of risk effects among temperate ungulates? |
Assistant Professor of Wildlife Management and Policy, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley Berkeley, California |
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Bridget Nugent, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2014 |
Sponsor: Suzanne Alonzo, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Understanding the proximate mechanisms that give rise to variation within and across species and thereby provide a substrate for selection and diversification that is critical to understanding the origins of biodiversity in wild species that may help to explain phenotypic variation in other organisms through comparative studies |
Research Program Lead, Office of Women’s Health, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Matthew Ogburn, Ph.D. | September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014 |
Sponsor: Michael Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Community assembly, niche evolution, and the future of alpine plant communities |
Principal Investigator & Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Maryland |
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Isabelle Kruta, Ph.D. |
August 25, 2011 (completed 2nd year in August 2014) |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology & Geophyics Research: Role of ammonites in the Mesozoic food web |
Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History New York, New York |
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Matthew Niemiller, Ph.D. |
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013 |
Sponsor: Thomas Near, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Cryptic diversity and speciation in cave organisms: delimiting species and evolutionary history in the southern cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus)
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, The University Alabama in Hunstville Huntsville, Alabama |
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Jay Zarnetske, Ph.D. |
October 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013 |
Sponsors: James Saiers and Peter Raymond, Professors at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Watershed hydrology, aquatic ecology, ecosystem informatics, hydrogeology, stable isotope biogeochemistry and global water resource issues |
Associate Professor, Environmental Hydrology & Ecohydrology, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan |
| Adrian Ghilardi, Ph.D. | September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013 |
Sponsor: Robert Bailis, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: Charcoal-driven degradation in secondary forests: Conserving biodiversity while maintaining production levels using opportunities under REDD+
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Associate Professor, Environmental Geography Research Centre, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico City, Mexico |
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Daniel Rosauer, Ph.D. |
August 15, 2010 - June 30, 2012 |
Sponsor: Walter Jetz, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Biodiversity informatics, macroevolution and conservation science |
Assistant Manager of Land Sector Carbon Modelling, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources Canberra, Australia |
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Nina Lehr, Ph.D. |
May 17, 2010 - May 16, 2012 |
Sponsor: Jeffrey Townsend, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: The evolution of gene expression underlying sexual development in fungi |
Postdoctoral Associate, Strobel Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut |
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Valerie Fuchs, Ph.D. |
August 16, 2010 - August 15, 2012 |
Sponsor: Julie Zimmerman, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Research: Optimizing ecosystem benefits through water systems infrastructure location |
Water Resources Engineer, Brown and Caldwell Seattle, Washington |
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Matthew Walsh, Ph.D. |
July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011 |
Sponsor: David Post, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: The link between environmental heterogeneity and evolutionary change in coastal lake ecosystems |
Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Texas Arlington Arlington, Texas |
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Andrea Gloria-Soria, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2009 - July 31, 2011 |
Sponsor: Leo Buss, Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Characterization of the allelic variation on the allorecognition complex of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus |
Assistant Agricultural Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station New Haven, Connecticut |
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Christopher Clark, Ph.D. |
June 1, 2009 - May 31, 2011 |
Sponsor: Rick Prum, William Coe Robinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), Professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: The mechanics and diversity of feather-generated sounds in birds |
Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside Riverside, California |
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Nicholas Longrich, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010 |
Sponsor: Jacques Gauthier
Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Research:
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath Bath, United Kingdom |
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Christopher Gilbert, Ph.D.
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August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010
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Sponsors: Andrew Hill, Clayton Stephenson Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Eric Sargis, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research: Paleoenvironments and the biodiversity, biogeography and phylogenetic history of African cercopithecoid monkeys
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY New York, New York |
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Michael Dodd, Ph.D.
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October 1, 2008 -
September 30, 2009
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Sponsor: William Mitch, Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Research: The influence of solar irradiation-generated halogen radicals on processing of marine dissolved organic matter: implications for oceanic photic zone depth and organic carbon bioavailability
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Allan & Inger Osberg Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington Seattle, Washington |
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Austin Hendy, Ph.D.
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October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2009 |
Sponsor: Derek E.G. Briggs, Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Research: Consequences of variations in large-scale environmental transitions (e.g. tectonic, climatic and sea level change) on the structure and diversity of past marine ecosystems
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Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Los Angeles, California |
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Matthew Brandley, Ph.D.
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September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2010
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Sponsor: Tom Near, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Developmental processes of morphological diversity and their evolutionary response to climate change
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Science Communicator & Research Associate, Herpetology Collection, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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Katy L. Prudic, Ph.D.
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October 1, 2007 - August 31, 2010 |
Sponsor: Antonia Monteiro, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Function of border eyespots in butterflies (do eyespots function as an anti-predator defense, or in butterfly mate recognition and choice?)
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Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona |
| David Zinniker, Ph.D. | September 2006 - August 2008 |
Sponsor: Mark Pagani, Associate Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Research: Intersection of the earth and life sciences, including organic geochemistry, micropaleontology, sedimentary geology, basin analysis, and petroleum systems
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Dror Hawlena, Ph.D.
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January 2007 - December 2008 |
Sponsors: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population & Community Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: The way disease agents and predators interact to alter the behavior of the species of host/prey that they share
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Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel |
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Barry Alto, Ph.D.
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September 2006 - August 2008 |
Sponsor: Paul Turner, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Biostatistics and the ecology and evolution of arthropod-borne RNA viruses
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Associate Professor, Florida Medical Entomology Lab, University of Florida Vero Beach, Florida |
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Tracy Langkilde, Ph.D.
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September 2005 - August 2007 |
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Incorporating evolutionary theory into biodiversity conservation: how rapidly and effectively can native communities evolve to minimize the impact of invasive species?
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Professor and Head of Biology, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania |
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Margaret Evans, Ph.D. |
September 2005 - July 2006;
July 2007 - August 2008
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Sponsors: Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Stephen Stearns, Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Research in basic and applied plant evolutionary ecology, particularly in the fields of life history evolution, demography and population modeling
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Assistant Professor of Dendrochronology, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona |
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Helen Nguyen, Ph.D.
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June 2005 - May 2007 |
Sponsor: Menachem Elimelech, Professor in Environmental Engineering
Research: Adsorption of genetic materials to soil minerals: implications for horizontal gene transfer in the environment
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Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois |
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Craig Layman, Ph.D. |
July 2004 - June 2006 |
Sponsor: David Post, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: To address (1) does ecosystem size affect food chain length in Caribbean estuaries, and if so (2) which measure(s) of ecosystem size (e.g. water volume of estuaries, catchment surface area, amount of tidal flow, or “resource “shed” – the total area from which an ecosystem derives resources) is most useful in accounting for differences in FCL. |
Senior Fellow, Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina Research Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina |
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Gregory Dietl, Ph.D. |
August 2004 - July 2006 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Circumstances under which evolution occurs with particular interest in arms races between species in evolution |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University Ithaca, New York |
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Stephen Meyers, Ph.D. |
October 2003 - September 2005 |
Sponsor: Mark Pagani, Professor, Geology & Geophysics Research: Quantifying Holocene climate response to the North Atlantic oscillation; the origin and stability of centennial-millennial scale cyclicity in quaternary |
Vilas Distinguished Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison Madison, Wisconsin |
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Benjamin Twining, Ph.D. |
August 2003 - July 2005 |
Sponsor: Gaboury Benoit, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Use of a combination of synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence microscopy, AAS/and/or ICP-MS, and voltammetric techniques to study the factors controlling the accumulation of metals by estuarine biota |
Senior Research Scientist & Henry L. and Grace Doherty Vice President for Education, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences East Boothbay, Maine |
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Amy Russell, Ph.D. |
August 2003 - July 2005 |
Sponsor: Anne Yoder, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Evolutionary history and biogeography of chameleons in a megadiversity hotspot |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan |
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Susanna Remold, Ph.D. |
October 2002 - September 2004 |
Sponsor: Paul Turner, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Environmental heterogeneity and the evolutions of genetic architecture in viruses; career consequences of expertise with mammalian pathogens |
Department Chair & Professor, Biological Sciences, Center for Pathogen Research & Training (CPRT), UMass Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts |
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Klaus Meiners, Ph.D. |
January 2003 - December 2004 |
Sponsor: John Wettlaufer, Professor, Geology & Geophysics Research: The ecology of frozen oceans - controls on primary production in sympagic communities |
Research Scientist, Sea Ice Ecology, Australian Antarctic Division’s Climate Processes and Change program & Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center’s Ecosystem Impacts program |
| Jenney Hall, Ph.D. | August 2002 - July 2004 |
Sponsor: Karl K. Turekian, Sterling Professor of Geology & Geophysics Research: Paleoceanographic and climate change reconstruction over various time scales |
Lecturer, Interdisciplinary/Environmental Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills Dominguez Hills, California |
| Jeremy Redman, Ph.D. |
July 2001 - June 2003 |
Sponsor: Menachem Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Bacterial transport in aquatic systems; interpreting microbial deposition patterns |
Lecturer, Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management Department, California State University at Long Beach Long Beach, CA |
| Luciano Beheregaray, Ph.D. | July 2001 - June 2003 |
Sponsor: Gisella Caccone, Director, ECOSAVE Conservation Genetics Laboratory; Lecturer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Evolution and conservation of Giant Galápagos Tortoises; patterns of diversification in Amazonian fishes |
Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia |
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Campbell Webb, Ph.D. |
September 2000 - August 2002 |
Sponsors: Mark Ashton, Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, Director of School Forests; and Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Comparative phylogenetic structure of rain forest tree communities |
Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts |
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Claudio Ciofi, Ph.D. |
July 2000 - June 2002 |
Sponsors: Dr. Gisella Caccone, ECOSAVE Conservation Genetics Laboratory and Lecturer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and Jeffrey Powell, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Genetics and ecology of island reptiles; established long-term collaboration with both US and foreign Institutions aimed at the management and conservation of endangered species |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florence Firenze, Italy |
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Ofer Ovadia, Ph.D. |
July 1999 - June 2001 |
Sponsor: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population & Community Ecology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Ecology/Evolutionary Biology Research: Effect of state-dependent decision making of individual herbivores on food web dynamics |
Professor & Chair, Department of Life Sciences, Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev Be’er Sheva, Israel |
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Douglas Gollin, Ph.D. |
July 1999 - June 2001 |
Sponsor: Professor Robert Evenson, Economic Growth Center Research: Impact of international agricultural research on the sustainable production of crops; management of materials in agricultural gene banks |
Professor of Development Economics, Department of International Development, Oxford University Oxford, England |
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Joseph Kiesecker, Ph.D. |
July 1997 - June 1999 |
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Disease ecology – investigating the influence of fungal pathogens on the distribution of larval amphibians and dynamics of their communities |
Lead Scientist, Conservation Lands Team, The Nature Conservancy Fort Collins, Colorado |
Past YIBS Postdoctoral Associates |
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Federico Spada, Ph.D. |
July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012 |
Sponsor: Sabatino Sofia, Professor, Astronomy Research: Solar structural variability and its influence on Earth climate |
Research Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research Göttingen Area, Germany |
| Berat Haznedaroglu, Ph.D. | May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2012 |
Sponsor: Jordan Peccia, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Research: Microalgae lipid analysis and bioinformatics |
Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey |
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Li-Qing, Jiang, Ph.D. |
March 2010 - February 2011 |
Sponsor: Peter Raymond, Associate Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: The impact of seasonal hypoxia on carbon dioxide in large estuarine systems – a case study of the Long Island Sound |
Assistant Research Scientist, College Park, Maryland |
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Philip Larese-Casanova, Ph.D. |
August 10, 2009 - August 9, 2010 |
Sponsor: Ruth Blake, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Improving bioremediation of groundwater contamination using δ 18O stable isotope signatures |
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts |
| Henry Wilson, Ph.D. | July 20, 2009 - July 19, 2011 |
Sponsor: James Saiers, Professor of Hydrology and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Professor of Chemical Engineering Research: Determining the role played by hydrological events in mediating dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics and related in-stream processes |
Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon, Manitoba |
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Chad Vecitis, Ph.D. |
March 16, 2009 - March 15, 2011 |
Sponsor: Menachem Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering; Chairman, Chemical Engineering & Director of the Environmental Engineering Program; Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Anti-microbial activity of single-walled carbon nanotubes, with investigations into membrane stress mediated toxicity |
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Alexander Jih-Pai Lin, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, William Beinecke Professor of Geology & Geophysics Research: The uniqueness of Cambrian paleoecology and closure of the Cambrian taphonomic window |
Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan |
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Linda Puth, Ph.D. |
August 2002 - July 2004 |
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly Research: Putting the parts together: A holistic treatment of invasion |
Lecturer in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut |