Global Change Student Grant Competition
Awardees for 2010
Undergraduate student awards
- Samuel Herreid, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF: Effects of debris cover on glaciers in Alaska
- Brady Salli, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: Sex steroids as a modulator of circadian rhythms in an arctic migrant bird
- Kyle Wendler, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UAF: Preservation of traditional ice cellars in permafrost
Graduate student awards
- Andy Anderson-Smith, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: What increasing NDVI values on the North Slope of Alaska really mean to understanding climate change on land: experimental studies that mix shrub density manipulations, spectral and CO2 exchange measurements
- Timothy Bartholomaus, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF: Physical oceanography and tidewater glacier dynamics at Yahtse Glacier, Alaska
- Amber Churchill, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Nitrogen availability in boreal peatlands responding to climate change and its effect on vegetation community structure and primary productivity
- Daniella Della-Giustina, Department of Physics, UAF: Regional modeling of Greenland outlet glaciers with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model
- Michael Garvin, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF: Whole mitochondrial genome analysis to uncover detailed genetic structure of chum salmon populations and possible historical refugia
- Joshua Holbrook, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UAF: Determining anisotropic thermal conductivity of snow with needle probe measurements
- Eunkyoung Hong, Institute of Northern Engineering, UAF: Estimating damages costs for Alaska infrastructure at risk from climate change
- Santosh Panda, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF: Modeling permafrost dynamics along the Alaska Highway corridor, Interior Alaska
- Emily Schwing, Department of Natural Resources Management, UAF: How will drought affect carbon storage in deciduous boreal forest soils?
- Jill-Marie Seymour, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF: Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) feeding ecology and possible links to Trichinellosis
- Elizabeth Sharp, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: Soil and plant N dynamics in the high Arctic: Long term multi-level warming and higher summer rainfall effects
- Cory Stantorf, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: To reproduce or not: Nutrition-hormonal influence on reproductive decisions in seasonally synchronous breeders
- Tim Stevenson, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: The effect of hibernation and active-season physiology on the gut microbial community of arctic ground squirrels
- Michaela Swanson, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Coupling alder strategies for phosphorus assimilation with phosphorus biogeochemistry across a boreal forest successional sequence
- James Willacker, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: The role of temperature in tissue specific isotope fractionation and turnover in captive threespine stickleback
Student Awardees for 2009
Student Awardees for 2008
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This page last updated September 26, 2011.