PAST WINNERS
2022
$1000 Winner
Jacquelyn Galvez, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Ph.D. Integrative Biology
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$500 Winner
Alexi Ebersole, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
B.S. Biology
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2021
$1000 Winner
Yingtong Wu, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
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2020
$1000 Winner
Hannah Clipp, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Ph.D. Forest Resource Science
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$500 Winner
Karen Gaines, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Ph.D. Ecology
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2019
$1000 Winner
Claire Nemes, University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD
Ph.D. Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences
Research: Impacts of free-roaming domestic cats on Neotropical birds during the non-breeding season
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$1000 Winner
Josephine Hubbard, University of California, Davis, CA
Ph.D. Animal Behavior
Research: How urban monkeys are adapting to human dominated environments
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$715 Winner
Jonathan Dickey, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research: How microbiome community structure and membership in the rhizosphere drive variation of plant phenology and reproductive traits
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2018
$1,000 Winner
Joseph Kelly, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Ph.D. Ecology & Evolution
Research: How microbiomes contribute to ecological distincitiveness of sponge species that otherwise lack obvious ecological differences
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$500 Winner
Kirsi Oldenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
B.S.P.H. Environmental Health Sciences
Research: The effects of degredation resistant micro-plastics on the heterotrophic capacity of coral when exposed
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2017
$1,000 Winner
Angela Chuang, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: The role of Philolema sp. (wasp) in controlling C. citricola spiders via egg parasitism in their native habitat in Spain, and comparing defensive behavioral responses by egg-guarding female spiders between the invasive and native ranges
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$1,000 Winner
Anusha Shankar, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Ph.D. Ecology & Evolution
Research: What strategies small endotherms such as hummingbirds use to manage their daily energy budget, with particular focus on hypothermic state (torpor)
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$500 Winner
Noel Hamideh, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
B.S. Natural Resources
Research: What microhabitats are available to three different species of lizards near perennial and ephemeral streams in the Chiricahua Mountains, and how microhabitat use differs or is similar between the three species of lizards
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