WMRS Graduate Student Fellowships 2005

Graduate student research proposals were reviewed by the Advisory Committee. In 2005, thirteen awards were made for a total of $19,600. $3,680 was given as a cash award for travel and $15,920 was given as a credit voucher for room and board, computer and GIS fees at the station. The committee awarded support to the following applicants.

Belknap, Sabrina, University of North Carolina, $1,000. A geomorphic investigation of cirque formation via fluctuating ice flow. Advisor: Dr. Mike Oskin

Bowerman, Nicole, Western Washington University, $500. Holocene glaciation of the Central Sierra Nevada, California. Advisor: Dr. Douglas H. Clark

Frankel, Kurt, University of Southern California, $1,850. Fault slip rates and the constancy of seismic strain release on the Fish Lake Valley fault zone: implications for Pacific-North America Plate Boundary Deformation. Advisor: Dr. James F. Dolan

Gracely, John Thomas, University of North Carolina, $1,000. Do plutons represent a single stage emplacement or are they assembled incrementally over time? Advisor: Dr. Drew Coleman

Hadjiyska, Ellie, University of California, Santa Barbara, $2,000. Transient Optical Sky Survey. Advisor: Dr. Phil Lubin

Hernandez, Larry P., University of California, San Diego, $1,560. Mass independent isotope study in nitrate and sulfate aerosols. Advisor: Dr. Mark H. Thiemens

Larson, William E., California State University, Sacramento, $ 960. Distributional Survey of the Owens River. Advisor: Dr. Mark E. Basgall

McMillan, David, Tulane University, $1,720. The effects of physiological variation on performance in the western fence lizard. Advisor: Dr. Duncan Irschick

Meyer, Archie, California State University, Santa Barbara, $2,000. Microsite effects on the C4 grass Muhlenbergia richardsonis, growing at moderate and extreme elevations in the White Mountains, California. Advisor: Dr. John Skillman

Russell, Gregory, University of California, Riverside, $2000. Effects of development at high altitude: aerobic metabolism in the deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus. Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Hammond

Schroeder, Jeffrey, University of Kansas, $1,210. Late Cenozoic to recent fault slip distribution in Northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada. Advisor: Dr. Daniel Stockli

Scott, Erik, Central Washington University, $2,000. Identifying and dating the penultimate earthquake along the Owens Valley fault, California. Advisor: Jeffrey Lee

Williams, Brian, University of California, Santa Barbara, $1,800. Detection of cosmic microwave background polarization signature. Advisor: Dr. Philip Lubin