WMRS Graduate Student Fellowships 2007

Graduate student research proposals were reviewed by the White Mountain Advisory Committee. In 2007, seventeen awards were made for a total of $24,082. The committee awarded support to the following applicants.


Name (*renewal application)

Campus

Advisor

Project Title

UC

 

 

 

*Barber, Adelia

UCSC

Doak

Using Dendrochronology to Understand the Population Dynamics of Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forests

Ferril, Ron

UCSB

Lubin

B-Machine

O'Neill, Hugh

UCSB

Lubin

Measurements of the CMB Polarization from the Barcroft Observatory at the White Mountain Research Station

Ortiz, Sonia

UCR

Hammond

Lung Surfactant Lipid Composition in Deer Mice, Peromyscus maniculatus

*Wang, Thea

UCLA

Nonacs

Behavioral Roles and Social Structure in the Yellow-bellied Marmot, Marmota flaviventris

Goedhart, Christine

UCI

Pataki

Linking Plant Water Relations, Nitrogen Cycling, and Woody Encroachment in Owens Valley, California

*Epanchin, Peter

UCD

Lawler

Beyond An Aggregative Response: Do Non-native Fish Indirectly Affect Bird Populations?

Rovito, Sean

UCB

Moritz

Physiological Limits and Climatic Niche Modeling of the Mt. Lyell Salamander, Hydromantes platycephalus

Schoville, Sean

UCB

Roderick

Biogeographic History, Climate Change, and Conservation of High Altitude Endemic Insects in the Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo Ranges

NON-UC

 

 

 

Wall, Bridget

CSU Sacramento

Delacorte

Precontact/Contact Evolution of Native American Subsistence Strategies in the Eastern Sierra

Clemons, Kit

U Utah

Bartley

Kinematic and Timing Relations of the Solid-State Deformation Associated With the Lamarck Pluton and Wall Rock in theLong Lake-Dusy Basin Area

Stearns, Michael

U Utah

Bartley

New Criteria for Identifying Increments and Pluton Anatomy in the Firld, McDoogle Pluton, Sierra Nevada, CA

MacNutt, Meaghan

U Brit. Col.

Sheel

Acclimation, De-acclimation, and Re-acclimation During Repeated Exposure to High Altitude

Thomson, Cynthia

U Brit. Col.

Rupert

Changes in gene expression in blood and buccal cells in response to varing level of hypoxic stress.

*Franklin, Rebecca

U AZ

Hughes

The Use of Herbchronology in Addressing Perplexing Questions About Rock Glaciers

Hallman, Christine

U AZ

Sheppard

Influence of Phenology, Aspect, and Elevation on Growth Patterns of Bristlecone Pines (Pinus longaeva) in White Mountains, CA

*Buckley, Christine

U Amherst

Irschick

Ecomorphology of Wide-ranging Lizards (genus Sceloporus)