2009
Global Change Student Research Grant Recipients
Only graduate students are shown. Four undergrads were also grant recipients.
Rebecca Baird, Department of Natural Resources Management, UAF: Assessment of change in vegetation index in an interior Alaska boreal forest
Andrew Balser, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF and Biological Sciences, UAA: Thermokarst distribution and ecological impacts in Arctic Alaska
Christopher Barger, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Mechanisms determining resilience of common murre (Uria aalge) populations to climate variability in the Bering Sea
Robert Burgess, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Climate change impacts on microbial lignocellulose decomposers in Alaskan boreal forest soil
Sean Cahoon, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: Herbivores modify the trajectory of the carbon and nutrient cycles in a warming Arctic
Rebecca Hewitt, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Do postfire plant-micorrhizal interactions shape landscape-level biome shifts?
Katrina Knott, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Eco-physical biomarkers and contaminants in a changing environment: Using stable isotope analysis to assess the biological significance of maternal transfer of contaminants in polar bears
Emily Lescak, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: An investigation into the mechanisms of selection for pelvic phenotypes in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Wallace Lake, Alaska
Julie Malingowski, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UAF: Using weather balloons to understand the Fairbanks surface temperature inversion lifecycle
Robert McNabb, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF: Monitoring and analysis of calving events at Franklinbreen, Vestfonna, Svalbard and Columbia Glacier, Alaska
Marc Mueller-Stoffels, Department of Physics, UAF: The ice-albedo feedback from a complex systems point of view
Linnea Pearson, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: Postweaning development of muscle physiology in harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus), a mechanism by which climate change may impact seal survival
Amanda Rinehart, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Preferential flow in stream ecosystems as a mechanism to enhance the rate of permafrost thaw
Amanda Robertson, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Migration potential of Populus balsamifera in a changing climate
Aditi Shenoy, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Resource-based controls on post-fire vegetation succession in burned black spruce forests of interior Alaska
Joey Slowik, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Documenting arachnid diversity in southeast Alaska, providing baseline data for climate research
Michaela Swanson, Department of Biology and Wildlife, UAF: Coupling alder strategies for phosphorus assimilation with phosphorus biogeochemistry across a boreal forest successional sequence
Barbara Truessel, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF: Seasonality of snow line retreat on a lake calving glacier
Jared Weems, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF: Stable isotope turnover rates in select invertebrates: Significance to ice-pelagic-benthic coupling in the Bering Sea
James Willacker, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: Quantifying the effects of climate induced drying on southcentral Alaskan lakes