2019 Fellowship Award Recipients

2019 Fellowship Award Recipients

  • Courtney Ray – PhD student, Arizona State University
    Demographic response to dispersal and species interactions in Rocky Mountain alpine
    Faculty Sponsor: Benjamin Blonder
    Amount awarded: $2,000 (Gerstle Fellowship)
  • Isabel Schroeter – PhD Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
    The role of plant physiological threshholds and resource use strategies in riparian ecosystem recovery in Rocky Mountain National Park
    Faculty Sponsor: Katharine N. Suding
    Amount awarded: $2,000 (Ossinger Fellowship)
  • Lydia Wong – MS student, University of Ottawa
    Impacts of drought on the reproductive success of solitary bees in a subalpine habitat
    Faculty Sponsor: Jessica Forrest
    Amount awarded: $2,000 (Kindig Fellowship)
  • Jared Balik – PhD. student, North Carolina State University
    Climatic influences on the seasonal progression of nutrient uptake kinetics and primary productivity in snowmelt-driven headwater montane streams
    Faculty Sponsor: Brad Taylor
    Amount awarded: $2,000 (14er Fund)
  • Alexandra Alexiev – PhD student, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Can symbiotic fungi from boreal toads inhibit the amphihbian chytrid fungal pathogen?
    Faculty Sponsor: Valerie McKenzie
    Amount awarded: $1000
  • Paul Buckner – MS student, Colorado State University
    Persistent places and the archaeology of high elevation landscapes in the Medicine Bow Mountains, Colorado
    Faculty Sponsor: Jason LaBelle
    Amount awarded: $500
  • Amal N. Acosta Carvajal – PhD student, University of California, Irvine
    Climate change effects on plant-herbivore-parasitoid interactions
    Faculty Sponsor: Kailen Mooney
    Amount awarded: $1,000
  • Alexia Cooper – MS student, Western Colorado University
    Climate mitigation through soil carbon sequestration: increasing soil resilience and plant productivity on rangelands through compost application
    Faculty Sponsor: Jennie DeMarco
    Amount awarded: $750
  • Alexander Goke – MS student, University of Denver
    Assessing anatomical and morphological drought tolerance characteristics of southern Rocky Mountain forest trees
    Faculty Sponsor: Patrick H. Martin
    Amount awarded: $1,000
  • Amelia Litz – PhD student, Northwestern University, Chicago
    Nest site characteristics and timing of emergence in solitary ground-nesting bees
    Faculty Sponsor: Amy Iler
    Amount awarded: $500
  • Anna Clare Monlezun – PhD student, Colorado State University
    Conserving Colorado’s foothills grasslands: a holistic investigation of grazing partnerships on public lands
    Faculty Sponsor: Stacy Lynn
    Amount awarded: $500
  • Bryce Pulver – MS student, Colorado State University
    Trace metal export to streams after wildfire
    Faculty Sponsor: Stephanie K. Kampf
    Amount awarded: $750
  • Robert Walker – MS student, University of Northern Colorado
    Comparing defense mechanisms of Douglas fir and lodgepole pine following bark beetle attack and blue-stain fungi infection
    Faculty Sponsor: Scott B. Franklin
    Amount awarded: $1,00