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