WMRS Graduate Student Fellowships 2010
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Graduate student research proposals were reviewed by the White Mountain Advisory Committee. In 2010, ten awards were made for a total of $15,700. The committee awarded support to the following applicants:


Sonia Ortiz Diaz, UCR Biology.
Effects of High Altitude on Lung Surfactant System in Deer Mice, Peromyscus maniculatus.

Priya Balasubramaniam, UCR Biology.
Proximate factors affecting life history variation in birds along an elevational gradient.

Sarah Heidl, Sonoma State University Biology
Larval development rates and the effects of environmental temperature and population genetics in the willow leaf beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis.

Kimberly Vest, Univ. Maryland Environmental Science.
Groundwater's Role in Vegetation Structure, Wind Erosion and Soil Resources.

Matthew Van Sant, UCR Biology
The affect of scale morphology on rates of evaporative water loss in lizards

Kayla Ireland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Geology
Magma mixing vs. recrystallization: the origin of feldspar phenocrysts in mafic plutonic rocks

Christopher Kopp, UCSD Biology
What limits plant species ranges? Towards a scientific framework for assisted migration

Zachary Lifton, Georgia Tech Geology
Refining geodetic rates of deformation in the central Walker Lane

Michael Trumbower, UCR Geology
Holocene climate variation in lake sediment cores of the Southeastern Sierra Nevada, California

Baran Ho, UCSD Medicine
Effects of anti-inflammatory drugs on ventilatory acclimatization to high altitude