2022 Fellowship Award Recipients

2022 Fellowship Award Recipients

Nick Bither –  MS student, University of Denver
Role of Climate and Local Adaptation in Recruitment Failure in Rocky Mountain Forests

Amount awarded: $1,000 (Ossinger Fellowship)


Elsa Godtfredsen – PhD student, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Gardens
Early Snowmelt, Changing Phenology and Increased Drought: Consequences for Plant Survival and Reproduction of Four Subalpine Plant Species
Amount awarded: $1,000 (Kindig Fellowship)


Hugh Marshall Worsham – PhD student, University of California, Berkeley
Changes in Evapotranspiration as Early Warning Signals of Drought-Induced Mortality in Rocky Mountain Forests
Amount awarded: $1,000 (Gerstle Fellowship)


Brynn Crosby – MS student, Colorado State University
Subalpine Seed Dispersal Capacity: Understanding the influence of spatially independent disturbance interactions on post-fire and beetle regeneration
Amount awarded: $500


Jacquelyn Fitzgerald – PhD student, Northwestern University and Chicago Botanic Gardens
Body size variation and climate change vulnerability in Rocky Mountain bumble bees

Amount awarded: $500


Edward Hill – PhD student, Colorado State University
Drivers of juvenile tree recovery following canopy tree mortality in pinyon-juniper woodlands of the southern Rocky Mountains

Amount awarded: $500


Scott Nordstrom – PhD student, University of Colorado, Boulder
Light availability and its possible effects on inbreeding depression in a subalpine wildflower
Amount awarded: $500


Melissa Ocampo – MS student, Murray State University
Does Climate Change Promote Cannibalism?
Amount awarded: $500


Wyatt Reis – MS student, Colorado State
Integrating in situ observation and model sensitivity to evaluate wildfire impacts on high elevation snowpack processes, Cameron Pass, Colorado
Amount awarded: $500