Biogeography
Specialty Group Award Recipients
Student Research Grants
The BSG sponsors a grant competition each year to support student
research in biogeography. Typically, a grant of several hundred
dollars (generated from BSG member dues) is awarded to a student
conducting thesis research, at both the masters and Ph.D. level.
The criteria used for evaluating the applicants include the scientific
merit of the proposed research, the soundness of the proposed methods
and analyses, and the appropriateness
of the budget items. Applicants are also evaluated in terms of
their
past experience and their level of need.
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1992 |
Ph.D. |
John Kupfer |
Univ. of Iowa |
“Effects of edge vegetation on interior gap successional processes” |
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1993 |
Ph.D. |
David Cairns |
Univ. of Iowa |
“Simulation modeling of treeline in Glacier National Park” |
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Masters |
Leslie Bolick |
San Diego State Univ. |
“Conservation of plants and birds at Mount Talau, Vava, United Kingdom of Tonga” |
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1994 |
Ph.D. |
Alison Arians |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
“Primary succession of latitudinal treeline spruce forests on arctic floodplains: Noatak National Preserve, Alaska” |
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Masters |
Karen Borza |
Pennsylvania State Univ. |
“The role of fire in maintaining structural and compositional diversity in eastern serpentine ecosystems” |
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1995 |
Ph.D. |
Alison Arian |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
“The impact of flood frequency, permafrost distribution, and climate variation on a northern treeline floodplain in Alaska” |
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1996 |
Ph.D. |
Ricardo Grau |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
“Disturbance and tree species diversity along the elevational gradient of a subtropical montane forest” |
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Masters |
Ralph Campbell |
New Mexico State Univ. |
“A predictive GIS model of cougar habitat for the San Andreas Mountains” |
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1997 |
Ph.D. |
Ginger Birkeland |
Arizona State Univ. |
“ Patternsof riparian vegetation and flood power along streams in south central Utah” |
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Masters |
Theresa Burscu |
Univ. of North Carolina |
“Remote biomass estimation of oak scrub, Kennedy Space Center, Florida” |
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1998 |
Ph.D. |
Charles Lafon |
Univ. of Tennessee |
“Ice storm effects on northeast forests” |
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Masters |
Deborah Kurtz |
Montana State Univ. |
“Exotic species in Grand Teton National Park” |
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1999 |
Ph.D. |
Stacy Jorgensen |
Univ. of Georgia |
“ Evolutionary biogeography of the Hawaiian endemic Lipochaeta ” |
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Masters |
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2000 |
Ph.D. |
Mike Pisaric |
Queens Univ. |
“Tree line dynamics and the paleoecological history of the northern Rocky Mountains” |
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Ph.D. |
Kim Diver |
Syracuse Univ. |
“Biogeography of island flora in the Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario” |
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Masters |
Kelly Pohl |
Portland State Univ. |
“Climatic variation and forest disturbance in Central Oregon” |
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2001 |
Ph.D. |
Matt Beaty |
Pennsylvania State Univ. |
“ Multiscale analysis of disturbance and vegetation dynamics in the central Sierra Nevada” |
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Masters |
Karen Eisenhart |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
“Historic range of variability and stand development in pinyon pine woodlands of western Colorado” |
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2002 |
Ph.D. |
Rosemary Sherriff |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
“The historical range of variability of fire in the montane zone of the northern Colorado front range: past fire types and fire effects” |
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Masters |
Kathryn Hrinkevich |
Portland State Univ. |
“Forest edge dynamics in a naturally fragmented landscape” |
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2003 |
Ph.D. |
Chris Duvall |
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison |
“Spatial assessment of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus ) population and habitat in the Bafing protected areas, Mali” |
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Masters |
Joanne Stewart |
Univ. of Denver |
“Influence of landscape characteristics on spatial patterns of bats within riparian habitats on the Great Plains” |
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2004 |
Ph.D. |
Kevin Anchukaitis |
Univ. of Arizona |
“A test of tropical isotope dendrochronology in montane cloud forests" |
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Masters |
Evan Larson |
Univ. of Tennessee |
“Fire history at tree line in the Rocky Mountains of Montana using long-lived whitebark pine” |
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2005 |
Ph.D. |
Chad
Lane |
Univ. of Tennessee |
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C.
Andres Holz |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
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Masters |
Carla Vandervoort |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
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2006 |
Ph.D. |
Scott Markwith |
Univ. of Georgia |
“Application of hydrologic modeling for
investigating hydrochory in the aquatic macrophyte |
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Masters |
Ranya Henson |
Univ. of Hawaii-Hilo |
“Genetic structure in the Hawaiian Intertidal Zone: Space, scale, and disturbance” |
| 2007 |
Ph.D. |
Grant Elliott |
Univ. of Minnesota |
“Spatiotemporal
influences of climate on upper treeline dynamics along a latitudinal
gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA”
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| Daehyun Kim |
Texas A&M Univ. |
“Spatial
zonation of vegetation on a salt marsh ecosystem: implications of
micro-spatial scale processes and land use history”
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| Masters |
Sarah McLane |
Univ. of South Carolina |
“An
integrated approach to modeling invasive species as a part of a
watershed management partnership in the Kohala Mountains, Hawaii"
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| 2008 |
Ph.D. |
Jacquelyn Gill |
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison |
“Counting
spores from the dung fungus Sporormiella in archived pollen
slides to reconstruct the spatiotemporal patterns and ecological
context of the
North American megafaunal extinction”
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| Masters |
Kerry Malm |
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
“Modeling
mountain pine beetle phenology in northern Colorado and the potential
impact of climate change”
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| 2009 |
Ph.D.
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William Flatley
|
Texas A&M University
|
“Implications
of an altered fire regime for forest dynamics along a topographic
gradient
in the southern Appalachian Mountains”
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Masters
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Yanan Li
|
University of Tennessee
|
“The
impact of oceanic-atmospheric-oscillations in the southeastern United
States
from a network of tree-ring data”
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| 2010 |
Ph.D. |
Kimberly Meitzen |
Univ. of South Carolina | “Hydrogeomorphology and vegetation ecology of abandoned meander wetlands in a large floodplain, South Carolina” |
| 2011 |
Ph.D. |
Michael Habberfield |
State
University of New York at Buffalo |
“Investigating the influence of pool
and landscape features on the spatial dynamics of amphibian breeding in
a vernal pool complex in central New York” |
| Masters |
Joshua Leisen |
Univ. of
South Carolina |
“Effects of riverscape connectivity
on fish metacommunity structure and turnover” |
If you have information to fill in the gaps in this history of
awards, please contact John Kupfer
Last update: June 27, 2011