2020 Fellowship Award Recipients

2020 Fellowship Award Recipients

  • Cori Butkiewicz – MS student, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    The relationship between growth rates and successful spruce beetle attack in Engelmann spruce
    Amount awarded: $1,000 (Kindig Fellowship)
  • Heather Reineking – MS student, University of Wisconsin, Madison                                                                                                                
    Alpine Vegetation Restoration of Ben Butler Mine Site in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado
    Amount awarded: $1,000 (Ossinger Fellowship)
  • Jesse Wooten – MS student, Colorado State University                                                                                                                
    Forest futures: post-fire recovery and transition
    Amount awarded: $1,000 (Gerstle Fellowship)
  • Melissa Chen – PhD student, University of Colorado, Boulder
    A novel microbial microcosm system to help understand how symbiotic microbes can prevent further decline of a Rocky Mountain amphibian
    Amount awarded: $750
  • Dylan Gomes – PhD student, Boise State University                                                                                                                
    Spider survival and reproduction in a noisy world
    Amount awarded: $750
  • Amelia Litz– PhD student, Northwestern University
    Determining the abiotic drivers of solitary, ground-nesting bee phenology in the context of climate change
    Amount awarded: $750
  • Niko Tutland – MS Student, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Do overlapping bark beetle outbreaks increase tree mortality?
    Amount awarded: $750