Fall 2011 Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Submitted by Visitor on January 30, 2012 - 1:46pm

The Institute of the Environment is pleased to announce it has awarded $15,511 to 22 UA graduate students to help them with their field work or to travel to meetings, conferences, or symposia to present their research during the 2011 fall semester. This semester’s recipients hail from 13 departments and programs across campus. The semiannual Graduate Student Travel Awards Program provides funding to UA graduate students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research related to earth system and environmental studies.

 

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Student Department Event Research Title
Stephen Bieda Arid Lands Resource Sciences World Climate Research Programme Climatological Forecasting of the North American Monsoon System
Joel Biederman Hydrology American Geophysical Union The impacts of pine tree die-off on snow accumulation and distribution at plot to catchment scales
Hsiang Chen SNRE The Wildlife Society’s 18th Annual Conference Barrier effects of roads: boundary of home ranges of endangered Mt. Graham Red Squirrels
Sabrina Cotta Political Science XIV World Water Congress Conference on Adaptive Water Management Privatization and Water Service Provision in the United States
Marlene Dermody Environmental Health Services Advancing Exposure Science for Environmental health Arsenic Exposure from Private Wells in a Mineralized Region of Arizona
Theresa Foley Atmospheric Sciences American Geophysical Union Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Air Quality
Sarah Hale SNRE The Wildlife Society’s 18th Annual Conference Population and Behavioral Ecology of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs
Rosa Jessen SNRE The Wildlife Society’s 18th Annual Conference Habitat Associations and Use by Neotropical Tree Squirrels in the Peruvian Amazon
Tim Jessen SNRE The Wildlife Society’s 18th Annual Conference Hairtube Sampling for Detection and Identification of Small Mammals
Shari Ketcham SNRE The Wildlife Society’s 18th Annual Conference Differental Response of a Native Squirrel and an introduced Squirll to a Mosaic of Burn Severities
Charles Lawry Family and Consumer Sciences International Conference on the Constructed Environment Home Ownership Values and Ideologies of Future Homeowners
Matt Levi Electrical and Computer Engineering 2011 International Annual Meetings of the Soil Science Society of America (ASA-CSSA-SSSA) Spatial Prediction Models of Physical Soil Properties In Southern Arizona
Rebecca Lybrand Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meetings Chemical Weathering of Granitic Soils In the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona: Effects of Climate and Landscape Position
Nicholas McKay Geosciences American Geophysical Union Interannual to multicentiennial-scale variability in the W. African Monsoon during the Eemian
Javier Miguelena Bada Entomology Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America In a Desert City, Parks are an Oasis for Ant Diversity and Abundance
Krystine Nelson SNRE American Geophysical Union Influence of Snow Cover Duration on Soil Evaporation and Respiration Efflux in Mixed-Conifer Ecosystems
Ari Posner Hydrology American Geophysical Union Numerical Simulation of Sediment Plug Formation in Alluvial Channels
Erin Posthumus SNRE The Wildlife Society’s 18th Annual Conference Can Red Squirrel Middens Influence Species Diversity?
Mario Samano Economics Colorado University Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy
Diane Thompson Geosciences American Geophysical Union Tropical Climate Trends Inferred from Coral δ18O: A Comparison of CMIP-5 Forward-Model Results with Paleoclimatic Observations
Jeremy Weiss Geosciences/SNRE American Geophysical Union Spatiotemporal Transitions between Foliar Phenological Limits of Suboptimal Temperatures and Evapotranspirational Demand in Woodlands and Forests of the
Southwestern U.S.A. under a Warming Climate
Anna Wonashutz Atmospheric Sciences American Geophysical Union Aerosol Redistribution by Shallow Cumulus Clouds: An Investigation using Airborne Measurements over Southeastern Texas

 

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