2006 Graduate Student Grants

Aaron Gabbe
Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title of Project: Pollination biology and conservation biology of the scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata) in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Award Amount: $350.00

Maya Leonard-Cahn
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Title of Project: Population viability and disease ecology of Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep.

Award Amount: $1,500.00

Jason Bruck
Comparative Department of Human Development Department, University of Chicago

Title of Project: Population differences in beacon use of developing ground squirrels.

Award Amount: $1,810.00

Peter Epanchin
Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis

Title of Project: Resource subsidies and indirect effects of non-native fish in an alpine food web.

Award Amount: $1,250.00

Brittany Enzmann

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Title of Project: Gyne investment and implications for colony founding in harvester ants.

Award Amount: $1,000.00

Andrew Kramer
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Title of Project: Limitations to recovery of Hesperodiaptomus shoshone after exotic fish eradication: a multi-lake test of the Allee effect.

Award Amount: $1,500.00

Holly Alpert
Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title of Project: Effects of precipitation and microhabitat on Pine recruitment at a forest-shrubland ecotone.

Award Amount: $1,000.00

Timothy D. Paape
Department: Biology Department (EBE), University of California, San Diego

Title of Project: Population genetics and molecular evolution of self-incompatibility in the Papaveraceae Family.

Award Amount: $600.00