Kudos
Listen to Leif Richardson on VPR to hear about the Vermont Bumblebee Survey.
Elizabeth Wolkovich (2009) and colleagues report in Nature that "Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change". Reports from Science, BBC, NASA, Scientific American, ScienceDaily. Video summary.
Lauren Culler and Julia Bradley-Cook awarded International Polar Year (IPY) Montreal Travel Awards by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists to present at the "From Knowledge to Action" IPY Conference in Montreal in April 2012.
Amanda Melin awarded two-year postdoctoral Fellowship award from NSERC.
Tom Kraft awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Julia Bradley-Cook awarded a grant from The Explorers Club for her project “Carbon Dynamics Across a Glacial Landscape in Western Greenland.”
Carissa Aoki awarded a Caroline Thorn Kissel Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship from The Garden Club of America for her studies of southern pine beetle in the New Jersey Pinelands.
Gillian Moritz featured in BBC Nature News for her research on lemurs in Madagascar.
2010
EEB highlights from 2011 in The Graduate Forum
Zak Gezon awarded Fellowship in Dartmouth's NSF-sponsored GK-12 program. Link.
Ramsa Chavez and Max Overstrom-Coleman are recipients of Graduate Alumni Research Awards. Link
Simone Whitecloud wins award for her poster "Arctic Migrations, Plants, and People". Link.
Zak Gezon wins Dartmouth College Filene Teaching Award for 2011. Link.
Chelsea Vario and Jessica Trout-Haney awarded Fellowships in Dartmouth's NSF-sponsored IGERT program in Polar Environmental Change. Link.
Paul Pickhardt (2002) recognized for excellence in teaching. Link.
Richard Hofstetter (2004) promoted to Associate Professor, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University.
Sam Fey awarded the David Cushing Prize for his paper in the Journal of Plankton Research. Link.
Laura Burkle (2008) joins faculty of Department of Ecology, Montana State University.
2010
Vivek Venkataraman receives Young Explorer's Award from National Geographic Society for his studies of interactions among Gelada Baboons, Ethiopian Wolves, and Giant Mole-rats. Link.
Jim Kellner (2005) joins faculty of the Department of Geography, University of Maryland College Park.
Jay Lennon (2004) comments in New York Times on microbes and the Gulf oil spill. Link.
Dartmouth Ecology and Evolutionary Biology rated among top in country by National Research Council (link).
Ramsa Chaves awarded a fellowship from the Organization for Tropical Studies to support her studies of how land use change affects subsidies of aquatic insects to terrestrial consumers, such as spiders, bats, and lizards in her home country of Costa Rica
Darren Ward (2007) joins faculty of Dept. of Fisheries Biology, Humboldt State University, Humboldt, CA. Link.
Alice Shumate (2001) promoted to Associate Professor of Biology at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Ramsa Chavez awarded a grant from The Explorers Club Exploration Fund to investigate the impacts of land use change on fluxes of stream insects to terrestrial animals in her home country of Costa Rica" Link.
Erik Stange (2009) joins Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA).
Sam Fey awarded a Porter Foundation Award for Research in Sustainability Science for his project "Food Production and Freshwater Plankton Communities: linking climate change research and sustainability science." Link.
Elizabeth Wolkovich (2009) is co-leader of working group at National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS): "Forecasting Phenology: Integrating Ecology, Climatology, and Phylogeny to Understand Plant Responses to Climate Change" Link.
Sam Fey and Nina Lany awarded IGERT Fellowships for their studies of polar ecology. Link.
Laurel Symes awarded a Gilman Research Fellowship to support her studies of acoustic ecology.
Rich Hofstetter (2004) featured in The Atlantic and on Public Radio International for his studies of bark beetles and acoustics. Link. Link.
2009
Bryan Brown (2004) was awarded an NSF grant for studies of crayfish and their branchiobdellid symbionts "Parasite or partner? Causes and consequences of conditional outcomes in a cleaning symbiosis."
Zak Gezon was awarded an NSF/OTS International Research Experiences for Graduate Students (IRES) award to work at Palo Verde, Costa Rica to study the effects of exotic aquatic flowering plants on native plant-pollinator interactions.
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)