Kudos
Cambell Webb ('97) and Kinari Webb featured on PBS TV McNeil/Lehrer Newshour for their combined health care/rainforest conservation project in Borneo. Link.
National Public Radio features Laurel Symes and her work on the acoustics of cricket calls. Link.
Simone Whitecloud’s studies of alpine plant ecology highlighted by Dartmouth College. Link.
Jeffrey Garnas (2009) joins faculty of Dept. of Entomology and Zoology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Link.
Laurel Symes joins work group at National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent): "An Integrative Evolutionary Approach to Examine Sexual Selection as a Mechanism of Speciation." Link.
Elizabeth Wolkovich (2009) awarded National Science Foundation Biological Informatics Fellowship: “The Phenology of Plant Invasions: How changing seasons and temporal niches assemble plant communities”. Link.
Laura Burkle (2008) awarded National Science Foundation grant: “Comparing historic and contemporary plant-pollinator interaction networks to investigate the effects of climate change and invasive species.” Link.
Tom Morrison awarded grant from Switzer Foundation for his studies of demographic variability and seasonal movement patterns of a declining wildebeest population in the Tarangire Ecosystem of Northern Tanzania. Link
Julia Bradley-Cook, Lauren Culler and Simone Whitecloud awarded IGERT Fellowships for their studies of polar environmental change. Link.
Adrian Carper and Katie Duryea awarded GAANN Fellowships.
Michael Logan awarded grant from Operation Wallacea for “Integrating population genetics, physiology, and behavior: the thermal ecology of Anolis lizards in the Cayos Cochinos and Bay Islands of Honduras” Link.
Elizabeth Wolkovich awarded Murray F. Buell Award for Excellence in Ecology at National Meeting of Ecological Society of America. Link.
Lauren Culler awarded LaFontaine Aquatic Entomology Scholarship from Federation of Fly Fishers for her studies of the effects of climate change on stoneflies, a popular fly used for fishing and a species-rich order of aquatic insects that are found in mountains streams, an ecosystem that is highly susceptible to human-induced climate change. Link.
Laurel Symes and Katie Duryea awarded honorable mentions for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Link.
Richard Hofstetter ('04) is Researcher of the Year in School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University (link).
Paul Pickhardt (‘02) develops tropical ecology course (link)
Elizabeth Wolkovich wins Dartmouth College Filene Teaching Award for 2009.
Simone Whitecloud awarded GAANN Fellowship.
Cambell Webb ('97) wins Cooper Award at 2008 national meeting of Ecological Society of America for his paper: "Phylogenetics and community ecology," published in the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. (link) (link to article)
Stuart Fisher ('71) wins Odum Education Award at 2008 national meeting of Ecological Society of America for outstanding work in ecology education. (link)
Stephanie Hampton ('01) featured by National Science Foundation for her climate change research at Lake Baikal. (link)