Graduate Fellowship Recipients

2012

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Betsy Shafer

The Response of Stream Metabolism to Variable Climate Patterns Using In-Situ Instrumentation in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico.

Charles Hayes

Gunnison's Prairie Dog Use of Resource Pulses: Capture Data

Daniel Warnock

Contributions of Soil Communities to Ecosystem Respiration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Eva Dettweiler-Robinson

The Contribution of Biological Soil Crust Carbon and Nitrogen Exchange to the Net Ecosystem Exchange Along an Elevation Gradient

Jennifer Plaut

Pinyon-Juniper Soil Psychrometer Output

Karen Wetherill

Long-Term Monitoring of Native Bees and Flowering Phenologies at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

Mason Ryan

Lizard Community Response to Short-Term Rainfall Manipulation

Matthew Petrie

Response of Vegetation and Microbial Communities to Monsoon Precipitation Manipulation in a Mixed Blue and Black Grama Grassland at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico

Miriam Hutchinson

Fungal Thermophile Survey

Travis Rusch

Stress Response from Male-Male Competition in Varying Thermal Environments

2011

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Alan Puttock

 

Developing an Understanding of Vegetation Change and Fluvial Carbon Fluxes in Semi-arid Environments

Daniel Warnock

 

Contributions of Soil Communities to Ecosystem Respiration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mason Ryan

 

PJ Rainfall Manipulation: Lizard Survey

Peter Biro

Modeling Ecohydrological Feedback Mechanisms Along a Grass to Shrub Transition Zone in a Semi-Arid Region on the Example of the Northern Chihuahua Desert, New Mexico

Sara Lopez

 

Isolating Bacterial and Fungal Contributions to Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from Nitrogen Fertilized Grasslands 

Vyoma Nenuji

 

Influence of Pedogenic Carbonate on the Physical and Hydrologic Properties of a Semi-arid Soil

2010

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Alan Puttock

 

 

Developing an Understanding of Vegetation Change and Carbon Budjets in Semi-Arid Environments

Amanda Boutz

 

Measuring Primary Productivity to Advance Biomass Analyses in Piñon-Juniper Woodland

Charles Hayes

 

Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Use of Resource Pulses

Laura Ladwig

 

Creosote Germination Across a Grassland Transition

Michell Thomey

 Monsoon Precipitation Extremes and Soil Water Dynamics Across a Semiarid Grassland Ecotone

Patrick Hudson

 

Daily Cycles of KH and YW Within and Across Piñon-Juniper Rainfall Manipulation Treatments: Dissecting Drought and Pathogen Impacts on Tree Mortality

Peter Biro

Modeling Ecohydrological Feedback Mechanisms Along a Grass to Shrub Transition Zone in a Semi-Arid Region on the Example of the Northern Chihuahua Desert, New Mexico

2009

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Amy Williams

Hydrochemistry of Springs and Groundwaters

Casey Gilman

The Burden of Reproduction in Lizards: Changes in Respiratory Physiology Associated with Reduced Lung Volume

Juliana Medieros

Local Adaptation to Freezing in High and Low Latitude Populations of L. tridentata (N. America) and L. divaricata (S. America)

Michell Thomey

Monsoon Precipitation Extremes and Soil Water Dynamics Across a Semiarid Grassland Ecotone

Virginia Seamster

Coyote Scat Surveys in Grassland and Shrubland Sites

2008

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Amy Williams

Hydrochemistry of Springs and Groundwaters

Andrew Edelman

Population Ecology of Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rats (Dipodomys spectabilis)

Casey Gilman

The Burden of Reproduction in Lizards: Changes in Respiratory Physiology Associated with Reduced Lung Volume

Ian Murray

Stable Isotope Ecology of Desert Box Turtles

Lydia Zeglin

Surface Soil Autotroph Enrichment

Virginia Seamster

Coyote Scat Surveys in Grassland and Shrubland Sites

William Burnside

Scaling of Recruitment with Seed Distribution and Colony Size in Pogonomyrmex

2007

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Alaina Pershall

Small Mammal Utilization of Pulsed Resources Quantified through Stable Isotope Analysis

Andrea Porras-Alfaro

Diversity, distribution patterns and nitrogen enrichment effect on endophytic and soil fungal communities in a semi-arid grassland.

Dave Van Horn

Rio Grande Water Chemistry 

Laura Calabrese

Effects of Multiple Resource Additions on Community and Ecosystem Processes