WMRS Graduate Student Fellowships 2011
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Graduate student research proposals were reviewed by the White Mountain Advisory Committee. In 2011, seven awards were made for a total of $10,340. The committee awarded support to the following applicants:

Jezra Beaulieu – Western Washington University
Hydrological and Ecological Significance of Rock Glaciers in the Central Sierra Nevada, CA

Evelyn Boychuk – University of Western Ontario
Over-wintering physiology through the different live states of a montane willow leaf beetle, Chrysomela aeneicollis

Sara Heidl – Sonoma State University
Larval development rates and the effects of environmental temperature and population genetics on development rate in natural populations of a will leaf beetle (Chrysomela aeneicollis)

Elyia Hogan – Central Washington University
Structural deformation across the southwest Mina deflection, California – Nevada: Field studies in the Huntoon Spring area

Christopher Kopp – UC San Diego
Shrub invasion of alpine areas:An uphill battle?

Zachery Lifton – Georgia Institute of Technology
Refining geodetic rates of deformation in the central Walker Lane

Ben Waitman – UC Davis
The role of ectomycorrhizae in meadow encroachment by lodgepole pine