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STEPS Research Grants for 2005

Awards for 2004 |Awards for 2006

Holly Alpert
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Michael Loik

Climate Change Effects on Native Pines and Water Resources in Eastern California

Katie Alt Griffith
Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Todd Newberry

Distribution and Abundance of Cuscuta salinain a California Salt Marsh

Krikor Andonian
Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biology
Faculty Advisor: Laurel Fox

Mycorrhizal Networks and the Maintenance of a Threatened Ecological Community: California's Oak Savannah

James Barsimantov
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Alan Richards

The Role of Community Forestry in Conserving Mexico's Temperate Forests

Max Boykoff
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: David Goodman

Global Climate Change and Media Coverage in the United States: Investigations at the Science-Policy Interface

Marc Buckley
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Brent Haddad

Extending Local Interaction Models to the Landscape Scale for the Sacramento River Conservation Area

Brian Gareau
Dept. of Sociology
Faculty Advisor: Walter Goldfrank

Politics, Economics and Scientific Knowledge in Ozone Diplomacy: Further support for research on the Politics of Methyl Bromide and the Montreal Protocol

Alden Griffith
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Michael Loik

Snow Depth and Microhabitat Effects on Population Dynamics of Bromus tectorum

Kristen Honey
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Brent Haddad

Managing the Threatened Delta Smelt: Integrating Science with Society to Balance California's Conflicting Water Demands

Becky Hufft
Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biology
Faculty Advisor: Ingrid Parker

Disturbance and Genetic Diversity: the importance of polyploidy and habitat differentiation

Kris Hulvey
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Erika Zavaleta

The Effect of Native Species Declines on Ecosystem Functioning

Suzanne Langridge
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Greg Gilbert

Transboundary Effects of Riparian Restoration in an Agricultural Landscape

Allison Luengen
Dept. of Environmental Toxicology
Faculty Advisor: Russell Flegal

Effects of Reduced River Flow on Cobalt Concentrations in San Francisco Bay

Marisa Mitchell
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Alan Richards

Trade and Biological Invasions

Katie Monsen
Dept. of Environmental Studies Faculty Advisor: Carol Shennan

Reducing Non-point Source Nitrogen Pollution at its Origin: Using models to synchronize plant N uptake and fertility inputs in organic agriculture systems

Amy Morris
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Press

California's Agricultural Conservation Easements: What do they protect and for how long? The promise of perpetuity and the reality on the ground.

Tara Pisani Gareau
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Carol Shennan

Bridging Agricultural and Conservation goals with Perennial Hedgerows

Jennifer Small
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Patrick Chuang

Investigating Precipitation Initiation Mechanisms in Clouds

Yuri Springer
Dept. of Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Greg Gilbert

Spatial and Phylogenetic Patterns of Resistance Structure in California Wild Flax

Andrea Vander Woude
Dept. of Ocean Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Raphael Kudela

Contribution of Chlorophyll Residence Patterns to the Global Carbon Cycle: A Study of a Northern California Upwelling Site

 

 
Undergraduate Student Research Grants for 2005

Courtney Angelo
Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biology
Faculty Advisor: Ingrid Parker

Restoration of Danthonia californica, Elymus glaucus, and Nassella pulchra at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Emily Bruns
Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biology
Faculty Advisor: Ingrid Parker

Pollen Limitation in and Reproductive Biology of an Important Coastal Prairie Native Grass

Melanie Gault-Ringold
Dept. of Environmental Toxicology
Faculty Advisor: Russell Flegal

Evasion of Dimethylmercury from Upwelling Water in Monterey Bay as a Potential Source of Monomethylmercury to the Atmosphere

Mary Goldman
Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biology
Faculty Advisor: Ingrid Parker

Timing of Gamete Release by an Alga, Silvetia compressa

Jodi Stewart
Dept. of Environmental Toxicology
Faculty Advisor: Donald Smith

HPLC Profiling of an Invasive Species to assess the Rapid Evolutionary Loss of Defensive Chemicals

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