Fall 2010 Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Spring 2010 Winners | Fall 2010 Winners
Fall Judges: Julio Betancourt, Goggy Davidowitz, and Tim Finan
| Student | Department | Event | Research Title |
| Joel Biederman | Hydrology and Water Resources | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Variability in snowpack accumulation and ablation associated with mountain pine beetle infestation in western forests |
| Rafael Rosolem | Hydrology and Water Resources | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | A Comprehensive Analysis of Parameter Sensitivity and Land Surface Model Optimization for the Amazon Basin |
| Diane Thompson | Geosciences | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Intercomparison of 20th century tropical climate model hindcasts and coral δ18O data using a forward proxy system model |
| Andrea Landazuri | Chemical and Environmental Engineering | AlChE 2010 Annual Meeting | Modeling and Characterization of Aerosol Emissions from Mining Operations |
| Zulia Sanchez-Mejia | Watershed Management and Ecohydrology | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Influence of temporal variation in the vertical distribution of soil moisture on the surface radiation budget: Implications for semiaird land-atmosphere interactions |
| Anna Wonaschuetz | Atmospheric Sciences | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Towards an Understanding of Aerosol Redistribution by Shallow Cumulus Clouds with a Focus on Organics |
| Weini Zhang | Systems and Industrial Engineering | 12th International Conference on Stochastic Programming | Reclaimed Water Network Design under Temporal and Spatial Growth and Demand Uncertainities |
| Toby Ault | Geosciences | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | North American Drought: Red, White or Blue? |
| Stephen Budy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Pacifichem 2010 | Sulfonated Polyarylenes: Synthesis, Post-functionalization, Characterization and Application |
| Andrew Neal | Hydrology and Water Resources | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | A Hierarchial Approach for Identifying Controls on Soil Respiration in Semi-Arid Ecosystems |
| Erica Bigio | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research/Geosciences | Geological Society of American Annual Meeting | Reconstruction of the fire history of the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Preliminary Results from upland channel and alluvial fan locations |
| Teresa Joy | Entomology and Insect Science | Entomology 2010, ESA 58th Annual Meeting | Estimating the age of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti under lab, semi-field, and field conditions. |
| Jose Lopez | Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering | ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Annual Meetings | Numerical Simulations of Root Zone Fluid Fluxes in Greenhouse Substrates |
| Patricia Navarro | Entomology | Organization of Nematologist of Tropical America (ONTA) XLI Annual Meeting |
Study of the antagonistic effect of the Pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum on the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis sonorensis. A neglected interaction that can affect the success in a Biological Control Program |
| Krystine Nelson | School of Natural Resources and the Environment | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Continuous Monitoring of Dynamic Pulse-Driven Phenological Phases in SemiArid Shrubland |
| Koichi Sakaguchi | Atmospheric Sciences | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | At What Temporal and Spatial Scales are the Coupled Climate Model Hindcasts in the 20th Century Reliable? |
| Matthew Levi | Soil, Water and Environmental Science | 2010 International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America | Assessment of Automated Image Segmentation for Predictive Soil Mapping |
| Sarah Ivory | Geosciences | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | In the hot seat: Controls on tropical African Vegetation |
| Ari Posner | Hydrology and Water Resources | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Monte Carlo Simulation in River Meander Modeling |
| Manuel Prieto | Geography and Development | The North American Regional Meeting of the IASC | Hydroelectric power generation in Chile: An institutional critique of the neutrality of market mechanisms |
| Angelica Vazquez | Soil, Water and Environmental Science | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Characterization of dissolved organic matter during reactive transport: A column experiment with spectroscopic detection |
| Sungwook Wi | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Climate Change projections using dynamical downscaling for the Colorado River Basin |
| Frederick Pianalto | Geography and Development | SPIE Remote Sensing | A remote sensing soil disturbance model of Valley Fever pathogen propagation in Southern Arizona |
| William Reitz | Anthropology | 76th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology | A Geoarchaeological Interpretation of Lake Estancia, New Mexico |
| Kate Heckman | Soil, Water and Environmental Science | Agronomy, Crop & Soil Societies of America International Meetings |
Changes in DOM structural characteristics induced by exposure to goethite and gibbsite surfaces: DRIFT and TG/DTA analysis |
| Seshadri Rajagopal | Hydrology and Water Resources | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Assessing impacts of climate change in a semi-arid watershed using downscaled IPCC climate output |
| Zhe Li | Materials Science and Engineering | 2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem) |
Sol-gel polymerization of bridged polysilsesquioxanes to afford membranes for gas separations via a size exclusion approach |
| David Tecklin | Geography and Development | North American Meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commons | Private land conservation in Chile: collective action and the construction of rights regimes in complex resources |
| Gaelen Burke | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | 3rd ASM Conference of Beneficial Microbes | The genome of Serratia symbiotica, a symbiont of aphids |
| Kenneth Walker | English | National Communications Association Conference | Bridging Science and Politics with Uncertianty |
| Patrick Broxton | Hydrology-Hydrometeorology Program | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Can Landscape Heterogeneity Buffer or Exacerbate Changes in Mountain Hydrology Under Different Climatic Conditions |
| Chrystie Burr | Economics | Solar Power International 10 Conference | The Impact of U.S. Incentive Program on the Solar Electricity Market |
| Hsiang Ling Chen | School of Natural Resources and the Environment | The Wildlife Society 17th Annual Conference | Effects of roads on small mammals: Are roads barrier to red squirrels? |
| Matthew Recsetar | Natural Resources | Desert Fishes Council | Assessing the growth and survival of Apache trout under various static and fluctuating temperature regimes |
| Sarah Rinkevich | School of Natural Resources and the Environment | The Wildlife Society Annual Conference | Implementation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Natural Resource Management |
| Liz Urban | School of Natural Resources and the Environment | 2010 Raptor Research Foundation Conference | The Role of Oral pH in the Persistence of Trichomonas gallinae in Cooper’s Hawks (Accipiter cooperii) |
| Bernal Alpizar | Chemical and Environmental Engineering | American Vacuum Society's 57th International Symposium | Surface Reactions of TiCl4 and Al(CH3)3 on GaAs(100) |
| Kathi Borgmann | School of Natural Resources and Environment | The Wildlife Society 17th Annual Conference | The relationship between avian breeding phenology and the risk of nest predation from patterns to causal mechanisms |
| Rahul Jain | Chemical and Environmental Engineering | American Vacuum Society's 57th International Symposium | Effects of metal ions on lipid bilayer formation on semiconductor surfaces |
| Stephanie Calpaldo | History | Western History Association Conference: Many Wests | Smoke and Mirrors: Smelter Pollution and the Cultural Construction of Environmental Narratives in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands |
| Chinh-Chih Chang | Geosciences | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Iodine-129 time series records from the Pacific Ocean as recorded in modern corals |
| Christine Lamanna | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Graduate Climate Conference 4 | Facilitation is critical to survival of Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) seedlings near their elevational range limit under climate change conditions |
| Rachel Lambeth-Beagles | Hydrology and Water Resources | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010 | Drivers of annual to decadal streamflow variability in the lower Colorado River Basin |
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