Global Change Student Grant Competition
Awardees for 2007
- Jason Amundson, Department of Geology & Geophysics: Investigating the climatic parameters influencing
calving rates of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland
- Jessica Beecher, Department of Biology & Wildlife: Adaptation to
cold in the far north
- Stefanie Bourne, Atmospheric Science Program: Dynamical downscaling over
Alaska and its applications
- David Gustine, Department of Biology & Wildlife: Predicting winter
condition for populations of muskoxen
- Markus Janout, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences: Atmospheric and oceanic
contributions on ocean temperatures in the northern Gulf of Alaska
- Trixie Lee, Department of Biology & Wildlife: Lean mass use and 15N enrichment
in hibernating arctic ground squirrels: developing a marker for field populations
- Anna Liljedahl, INDS (International Arctic Research Center/Institute of Northern Engineering):
Northern Alaska soil moisture distribution, today +/- 100 yrs
- Tracie Merrill, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences: Temporal changes in
Pacific walrus diet using stomach contents
- Jeremy Mull, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences: QuikSCAT measurements of
the wind field over the Bering Sea
- Dana Nossov, Department of Biology & Wildlife: Assessing the climate sensitivity
of thinleaf alder growth: patterns of drought stress and disease in the Tanana River floodplains
- Isabel Nunez Ortiz, Department of Linguistics: Global change and language loss: an effort to help the
revitalization of the Upper Tanana language through the creation of an instruction booklet
- Jennifer Rohrs-Richey, Department of Biology & Wildlife: How will water stress affect host susceptibility and
host physiology? An inoculation experiment with Alnus viridis (green alder) and Valsa melanodiscus
- Cody Strathe, Department of Anthropology: Variability in marine ecosystem productivity and effects on seal
abundance, morphology, and subsistence hunting throughout the Holocene in the Shelikof Strait, Alaska
- J. Michael Tapp II, Department of Geology & Geophysics: Climate change in the Late Cretaceous Paleoarctic:
a study using the stomatal index of fossil plant cuticle, chemostratigraphy, and palynology from the Prince Creek
Formation, North Slope, Alaska
- Erin Trochim, INDS (Water and Environmental Research Center): Detecting thermokarst change in the
Upper Kuparuk Basin from 1995 to 2008 using hyperspectral remote sensing and ground-truth data
Student Awardees for 2006
Student Awardees for 2005
Student Awardees for 2004
Student Awardees for 2003
Student Awardees for 2002
Student Awardees for 2001
If you are interested in submitting a proposal to this competition, check out the most recent guidelines to get an idea of what is required.
Specific guidelines for each year's competition are usually posted in December, with a proposal deadline at the end of February.
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This page last updated June 25, 2007.