Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research

Claire Lewis diving in the Maldives (2019 Field Scholar)

The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation.

Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.

Graduate students and postdoctoral and junior scientists wishing to pursue projects in astrobiological field studies should consult the program description and application forms for the Lewis and Clark Fund in Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology.

Deadlines:      November 15, 2024, for applications; letters of support due November 12, 2024
Notification:   April 2025, for work taking place in May and later

Current and Past Lewis and Clark Field Scholars

2023-2024

Arellano-Thompson, Elise B., University of Arizona
Subsequent Flooding Experiences in Urban Informal Settlements From 2000–2023: San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Argrett, Jordan, University of Georgia
Stealing from the Rich to Give to the Poor: Are Hemiparasitic Plants the "Robin Hood" of Colorado Sub-Alpine Communities?

Ashing-Giwa, Kemi F., Stanford University
The Good, the Bad, the Hypoxic, and the Euxinic: Investigating the Response of Bivalves and Brachiopods on San Juan Island, Washington State, to Temperature-Dependent Hypoxia and to Euxinia

Aubey, Madison, University of California, Los Angeles
Fostering Sovereignty: The Establishment of Africatown in Post-Emancipation Mobile

Ayelagbe, Timilehin Olubayo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Archaeological Investigation of the Late Holocene Occupation of Udo and Okomu, Edo State, Nigeria

Baillie, Iona, Johns Hopkins University
Assessing Evidence for a Late Ediacaran Glaciation in Southern Africa

Banerjee, Shreya M., University of California, Davis
Climate-Driven Range Shifts and Adaptive Potential in Ribbed Limpets on the Pacific Coast of North America

Barasi, Serena V., University of California, Santa Cruz
Restoration Friend or Foe? The Impacts of Planting Non-Native Acacia on Native Reforestation in the Badlands of Guam, Micronesia

Batterton, Berit E., University of Texas at Austin
Impacts of Drought on the Functional Diversity and Carbon Dynamics of South Texas’s Estuarine Marshes

Belury, Lucas, University of Arizona
Coproducing Flood Justice: Supporting Community-Based Organizations With Locally Validated Satellite Flood Maps in the Rio Grande Valley

Bennett, Shayna, University of California, Merced
Viral Diversity and Richness of the California Black Oak Phyllosphere

Bentley, Nicholas, Texas A&M University
Exploring the Lady Bug Archaeological Site: Uncovering the First Americans at a Submerged Late Pleistocene Archaeological Site in Northwest Florida

Billman, Peter D., University of Connecticut, Storrs
Evaluating How Wildfire Severity Shapes Genetic Diversity for Species Inhabiting Fire Refugia in the Northern Rockies

Brown, Samantha Ruth, University of Oregon
Fermented Foods, Fresh Perspectives: Contemporary Greenlandic Inuit Food Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic

Caragine, Cassandra, University of Maryland, College Park
Documenting the Acquisition of Tz'utujil Mayan

Carter, Caroline L., University of Virginia
Caves and Religious Rituals in the Ancient Athenian Countryside

Chavez Quispe, Juan Carlos, University of California, Riverside
Biological and Cultural Relatedness Among the Mojocoya: A Bioarchaeological Study of Networks in the Eastern Slopes of the Bolivian Andes, 200 BC–600 AD

Chávez Treviño, Alejandro, University of Missouri
Bison Reintroduction Effect on Nesting Success of Grassland Birds on Managed Land in Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Chew, Ziqi, University of California San Diego
Listening to the Past: Understanding Ancient Fisheries in the Taiwan Strait Based on Otolith Analysis

Dąbkowski, Maksymilian Michał, University of California, Berkeley
Stress and Glottalization Across Lexical Classes in A'ingae (or Cofán), Northeastern Ecuador

Dayanandan, Arun, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Novel Forest Succession Trajectories in Mixed-Species Brazilian Planted Forests to Restore Global Forests

DePasquale, Allegra, University of Calgary
Fruitful Forests and Foraging Frugivores: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Costa Rican Tropical Dry Forest

Derby, Riley N., University of Texas at Austin
Social Relationships and Integration in Adolescent Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi, Uganda

Fleury, Gabriela S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Carnivore-Livestock Conflict Mitigation in the Ghanzi District of Botswana

Franzetti, Tristan, Duke University
Mechanisms of Niche Differentiation in Wild Lemurs of the Anjajavy Forest in Madagascar

Frausto, Cynthia L., University of California, Los Angeles
Squirrel Wars: Invasive Impact of Sciurus niger on Orcas Island, Washington State

Garvin, Arianna C., University of California, San Diego
Viru (ca. 200 BC–200 AD) Household Archaeology and Societal Resilience to El Niño Events at Puerto Malabrigo, Chicama Valley, Peru

Greaves, Aspen, University of Pittsburgh
A Multi-Method Approach to Mongol-Era Agropastoralist Subsistence, Tarvagatai Valley, Mongolia

Guimarães Ubiali, Bruno, University of Georgia
From Individuals to the Landscape: Smallholders’ Responses to Industrial Monoculture Expansion in the Amazon

Gussone, Leonie, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Comparing Individual and Group-Wide Travel as Estimators of Food Availability in Red-Tailed Monkeys in Kibale National Park, Uganda

Hamor, Clark W., Rice University
Investigating Singe-Cell Responses of Essential Coral Symbionts in Panama to Viral Infection and Heat Stress

Hatton, Kevin, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Records of Drainage Reversal Preserved in the Prescott Paleochannel of Central Arizona

Helcoski, Ryan, Utah State University
Bonefield Dynamics of Terrestrial Megacarcasses in an African Savanna

Howlett, Caden J., University of Arizona
Structural and Thermal History of the South-Central Andean Fold-Thrust Belt, Western Argentina

Hull, Richard, Indiana University
Analyzing the Changing Wabash River Corridor Flora of Indiana

Jones, Cheristy, University of New Hampshire
Linking Terrestrial and Aquatic Carbon Cycling in Kobbefjord, Greenland

Kardulias, Drosos Nicholas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Medieval Roman Archaeological Survey of Kalymnos: Warfare, Resilience, and Adaptation in the Middle Byzantine Aegean

Kent, Qwahn DeVante, Princeton University
Understanding the Social Dynamics of a Communal and Cooperative Breeding Bird in the Dominican Republic

Kowalski, Michael B., University of California, Santa Cruz
Determining the Effect of Human Disturbance on African Lion Behavior and Trophic Interactions in a Multi-Use Landscape in Laikipia, Kenya

Kuto, Elikplim Emmanuel, Northwestern University
An Archaeological Investigation of Food Storage and Food Security in Northeastern Ghana

Lehnen, Charles, University of Southern California
Assessing the Ecological Impact of Introduced Española Giant Tortoises on Santa Fe Island, Galapagos, Ecuador

Lloyd, Benjamin A., University of Washington, Seattle
Dynamics and Drivers of Miocene-Pliocene Grassland Expansion in Australia

Lock, Lauren R., University of Oklahoma
Investigating the Longitudinal Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Infectious Disease Dynamics in Neotropical Bats in Belize Over Three Years

Lodge, Joey, University of Colorado, Boulder
Intraspecific Trait Variation as a Predictor of the Adaptive Capacity of Alpine Plants to Climate Change at Niwot Ridge, Colorado

Lopez Marquez, Wendy Liz Arbey, University of California, Berkeley
Documenting Nuntajɨɨyi, a Mixe-Zoquean Language Spoken in Southern Veracruz, Mexico

Lopez-Jimenez, Ibis Tarini, Florida International University
Building Bridges Between Coral-Algae Interactions: Integrating Molecular, Ecological, and Epigenetic Approaches in the Face of Anthropogenic Challenges, with a Focus on the Mediating Role of Sea Urchins in Two Reefs in Culebra, Puerto Rico

Lungstrom, Linnea L., University of Chicago
Evolution of the Venom Delivery System in Surgeonfishes in Moorea, French Polynesia

Madden, Sage Alyssa, University of California, Davis
Do Urban Songbirds Beat the Heat? Effects of Urbanization and Heat on the Behavior, Physiology, and Fitness of Black Phoebes in California's Central Valley

Maguire, Billie, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Exploring the Evolutionary Dynamics of Dietary Generalism in Insect Herbivores: A Continental-Scale Study of Fall Webworm (Hyphantria cunea) in North America

Maley, Kathryn, Purdue University
Elucidating Plasticity of Mycorrhizal Type in Temperate Deciduous Trees of a Midwestern United States Natural Forest Reserve

Matadamas-Gomora, Diego, Tulane University
Rural Archaeology, Community Practices, and Regional Interactions at Postclassic Tlalancaleca, Mexico

McNeil, Kaylie, University of Texas at San Antonio
Energy Balance and Reproductive Outcomes of Female Lowland Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)

Medeiros, Aline Souza de Menezes, George Mason University
Is Water the Key to Species Diversity in the Amazon? An Experimental Test of Climate and Precipitation Change on Species Diversity in the Amazon Rainforest

Messeder, João Vitor S., Pennsylvania State University
Unraveling the Links Between Fleshy Fruit Functional Traits and Seed Dispersal Interactions in Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the Northeastern United States: Do Frugivores Drive Fruit Diversity?

Meyer, Brett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Classic Maya Political Transformation at Ek Tzul, Belize

Mfuni, Tiza Ignatius, Pennsylvania State University
The Socio-Ecological Trade-Offs of Livestock and Wildmeat Production in Cameroon

Michel, Alice, University of California, Davis
The Spatial Dynamics of Long-Distance Communication in Gorillas in the Republic of Congo

Muell, Morgan Renee, Auburn University
Investigating Developmental Plasticity in Tropical Lizards (Dactyloidae: Anolis) in Costa Rica

Neill, Melman, University of Texas at Austin
Physiology, Life History, and the Pace of Life: Understanding the Role of Cryptobenthic Fishes on the Australian Great Barrier Reef

Okanlawon, David A., Syracuse University
European Practices in the Atlantic World: Foodways on Bunce Island, Sierra Leone

Oliveira, Diogo, College of William and Mary
Northern Mozambique in the Indian Ocean: An Archaeological Approach to Maritime History

Ore Rengifo, Malu Isaura, Florida Museum of Natural History
Chaetogastra’s Genomic Perspectives: A Comprehensive Expedition in Peru and Bolivia

Palacios, Andres Camilo, University of Miami
Patterns of Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Beta Diversity in Colombia’s Hyperdiverse Choco Biogeographic Region

Palmisano, Jenna Noel, University of Central Florida
Documenting the Impacts of Emerging Pathogens on the Stability and Genomic Diversity of Pygmy Rattlesnake Populations Across Florida, Over Five Years

Re, Bridget, Virginia Tech
Investigating Movement Post Nest Abandonment for a Decline Tidal Marsh Obligate Songbird on the Eastern Shore, Virginia

Reis, Gbolahan Anthony, Utah State University
How Well Does Population Genomic Evidence of Climatic Maladaptation Predict Population Declines in Butterflies in the Western United States?

Robb, Haley, University of California, Santa Cruz
Assessing Humpback Whale Reproductive Status, Condition, and Behavior in Hawaii

Rodwell, Ben, University of Texas at Austin
Paleontology of the Eocene Aged Aycross Formation in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming: Bridging Gaps in the Bridgerian North American Land Mammal Age

Ronemus, Chance B., University of Arizona
The Case of the Phantom Forearc: Can an Arc Accretion Model Explain the "Missing" Mesozoic Margin of Chile?

Ruano Fajardo, Edgar Gustavo, Florida International University
Amphibian Bromeliad Interactions Across a Climatic Gradient in Northern Guatemala

Rumelt, Reid, University of Miami,
The Effect of Signaling Environment on Avian Vocal Trait Space Along a Key Amazonian Habitat Gradient

Saldarriaga, Ana María, Fordham University
Monitoring Nests and Hatchlings of the Critically Endangered Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) in Vichada, Colombia: Hope for Recovering the Species

Saurav, Devashish, Michigan State University
Storied Landscapes: A Case Study of Forest Restoration and Entanglements in the Western Himalayas

Scholten, Justin, Cornell University
An Enigmatic Catalyst of Biodiversity on Shikoku Island, Japan: Homoploid Hybrid Speciation in Arisaema (Araceae)

Schrage, Kharis R., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Settlement Black Box: Understanding Drivers of Community Composition on the High Arctic Seafloor During the Polar Night

Sellers, Maria, University of Florida
Excavations to Explore Mortuary Patterns at the Chimú Site of Chan Chan, Peru

Sethna, Jadyn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fixed or Flexible: How Do Sea Turtles on Wassaw Island, Georgia, Update Their Geomagnetic Instructions for Navigation? 

Shearer, Caroline L., Duke University
Costs and Benefits of Lemur Social Structures: Behavior, Hormones, and Health of Two Eulemur Species Across Habitats in Northern Madagascar

Silva de Souza, Yuri, University of Miami
Termite Impact on Soil Nutrient Dynamics Through Murundus Structures in the Brazilian Savanna

Simeonoff, Sarah, University of Colorado, Boulder
A Preliminary Collaborative Mapping and Data Collection Project of Alutiiq Settlements on the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska

Soifer, Lydia, University of Florida
Unveiling the Impact of Microclimates on the Biogeography of Epiphytes in Panama

Sperou, Emily, Baylor University
Assessing the Reproductive Physiology of Resident Leopard Seals in Chile

Stancil, Carter, East Carolina University
Using a Flagship Parasite Species to Investigate the Effect of Coevolutionary History on Parasite-Host Genetics Along the East Coast of North America

Syrotchen, Jill, Tulane University
Investigating the Adaptive Potential of Leaf-Shape Phenotypic Plasticity in the California Endemic Plant Species Mimulus laciniatus

Tan, Dick Yee, University of Colorado, Boulder
Eyeing the Enemies Across Timor Sea to the Great Australian Bight: Evolution of Vision and Defense Mechanisms in File Clams (Limida) from the Vast Seas of Western Australia

Ul Hasan, Md Ashraf, Texas Tech University
Habitat Selection of a Predatory Bat, Lyroderma lyra, in a Mosaic Landscape in Northeast Bangladesh

Webster, Kathleen, University of New Mexico
Trophic Niche Dynamics of the Invasive Peter’s Rock Agama and Endemic Comoros Iguana on Grand Comoro Island, Comoros

Whalen, Niall Scannell, Florida State University
A Phytolith-Based Analysis of Ecological Turnover Following the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction Event in the Hell Creek and Fort Union Formations, North Dakota

Wiens, Ben, University of Kansas
Searching for Cryptic Hybrids: Untangling the Roles of Genetics and Hybridization in Adaptation to Climate Change in British Columbia, Canada

Wuthrich, Kelly Lin, Florida International University
An Integrative Approach to Understanding the Plasticity of Thermal Traits and Its Potential Effects on the Biological Response to Climate Change in a Tropical Ectotherm of Panama
 

2022–2023

Andringa, Randall Keith, Texas A&M University
Interactions Between Mercury Exposure and Microplastic Load in Clapper Rails (Rallus crepitans) Along the Texas Gulf Coast

Blebea, Christina, University of California, Santa Cruz
Architects of New Forests? Seed Dispersing Ants in Forest Restoration in Costa Rica

Bos, Jaelyn T., Rutgers University
Landscape Genetics of Coral Symbiont Heat Tolerance in Northern Mozambique

Bowen, Corey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Monumental Waterscapes: Surveying the Urban Canals of Tiwanaku, Bolivia (Circa 500 CE)

Britton, Sarah E., University of Arizona
Comparison of Melanin Plasticity Across Populations of the White-Lined Sphinx Moth, Hyles lineata, in the Southwest United States

Brown, Jordan F., University of California, Berkeley
Ancient Assyrian Hydraulic Engineering and Land Use on the Erbil Plain in Iraqi Kurdistan

Brown, Matthew T., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Excavations at the Late Formative (600 BCE–300 CE) Village of Muyumoqo, Cusco, Peru

Burgess, Emily, Utah State University
Impacts of Warming and Snow Removal on Floral Microbiome Assembly and Function in Northern Utah Wildflowers

Calderon, Elsa, University of California, Santa Cruz
Threats to Black Landownership in the U.S. Southeast as Racial Trauma

Cameron, Asa, Yale University
Laying Down with Dogs: The Role of Canis familiaris During the Xiongnu Period of Mongolia

Cancho Ruiz, Christian Giovanni, University of Virginia
Social Complexity on the Central Peruvian Coast During the Second Millennium BCE: Understanding Monumental Ceremonial Complexes

Carlson, Bailey, University of California, Merced
Exploring Current Genomic, Morphometric, and Stable Isotope Variation in the Island-Like Marine Lakes of Palau, Micronesia

Carolus, Christina M., Yale University
Sowing the Seeds of Empire: Subsistence Transformation and the Rise of East Asia's First Nomadic Polity on the Mongolian Steppe (Circa 1300 BC–200 BC)

Carpenter, Scott, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Examining the Effects of Climate Change and Grazing on the Stability of Big Sagebrush Plant Communities in Wyoming

Castro, Marian, New York University
The Origins of Pre-Modern Turquoise Artifacts in Central Asia: Collection and Analysis of Turquoise Geological Samples from Uzbekistan

Chen, Ran, University of Arizona
Understanding Dynamic Relationships Between Humans and the Environment Through Technology in East Asia: Legacies of Form and Functional Specialization

Clark, Isabelle, University of Texas at Austin
The Development of Territorial Conflict and Group Identity in Wild Chimpanzees

Cowal, Sanya, University of California, Santa Cruz
Uncommon Grounds: Ant-Pest and Ant-Pollinator-Microbe Interactions Through Multi-Scale Contingencies in Coffee Management in Chiapas, Mexico

Craffey, Matthew, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Quantifying Patterns of Turnover and Ecological Change Over the Late Ediacaran in Australia and Namibia

Culbertson, Katherine, University of California, Berkeley
Investigating Novel Secondary Forest Communities and Restoration Efficacy in Eastern Madagascar

Davis, Kathryn, University of Wyoming
The Beaver, the Frog, and the Landscape: Ecosystem Engineering and Functional Connectivity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

DiPetto, Ella, Old Dominion University
Harnessing an Ecosystem Engineer: Assessing the Potential for Oyster Reefs to Adapt to Sea-Level Rise and Protect Vulnerable Coastal Communities Across the Eastern United States

Drucker, Jacob, University of Chicago
Unpacking Niche Packing: Avian Foraging Behavior and Diet Across an Elevational Gradient in the Ecuadorean Andes

Eensalu, Mariliis, Northern Illinois University
Hydrological Balance of a Northern European Lake Pangodi in Estonia During the Holocene

Estrella, Tony, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Capuchin (Cebus imitator) Behavioral and Vocal Flexibility Across Central, Peripheral, and Overlapping Home Ranges in Costa Rica

Evans, Tomos Llywelyn, College of William and Mary
A Yorùbá Ontological Approach to the Archaeology and Architecture of the Sungbo’s Eredo Monumental Earthwork, Southern Nigeria, AD 100–1900

Everett, Adrian, Yale University
The Implications of Imitation: Ceramic Evidence of a Teotihuacan Colony in Escuintla, Guatemala

Fascinetto-Zago, Paola, Texas A&M University
Bringing the Lab Into the Field: Behavioral Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Mate Choice in Xiphophorus Fishes of the Mexican Sierra Madre Oriental

Finn, Sylvana R., University of California, Davis
From California's Coast to Crest: Exploring Reproductive Phenology in a Widespread Bumble Bee Species

Finneran, Ann E., Rice University
What’s for Dinner? Examining Food Web Stability in Protected and Unprotected Areas with Camera Traps and Acoustic Recorders

Florez Valencia, Camilo, Pennsylvania State University
Effects of Ant Dominance on Ant-Treehopper Mutualistic Networks in the Lowland Colombian Rainforest

Gauriau, Judith, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Documenting the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Incremental Slip Rate of the Wairarapa Fault at the Waiohine River, New Zealand

George, Rachel E., University of Chicago
Sharpening the Honey Adze: Using the Rock Art of Iringa and Mbeya, Tanzania, to Understand the Role of Honey in Catalyzing Cross-Community Connection

Ghosh, Adit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Roots of the Devonian Carbon-Dioxide Drawdown in Morocco

Gjyshja, Zhaneta, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Craft Specialization at a Late Neolithic (5300–4500 BC) Village in Western Kosova

Gurung, Phurwa, University of Colorado, Boulder
Reordering Highland Territories: State-Building, Indigeneity, and Multispecies Worldmaking in the Himalayas

Hari Haran, Priyanka, University of Florida
Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Does the Adage Hold in Shared Landscapes in the Indian Tropics?

Harryman, Ian A., Stanford University
Social Networks, Environmental Change, and Health Among a Semi-Nomadic Population in Bangladesh

He, John, University of Arizona,
Telltale Signs of Lithosphere Dripping Beneath Miocene and Modern High-Elevation Lakes on the Peruvian Altiplano

Henson, Michelle, University of Georgia
Examining the Impacts of Prescribed Fire Regimes on Soil Microbial Community Composition in the Coastal Plain of Georgia

Hernandez-Corrales, Georgia G., University of Connecticut
Keeping up With the Heat: Evaluating Plants Ability to Acclimate to Local Temperatures Using a Long-Term Survey of Heat Tolerance in a Tropical Plant Community in Costa Rica

Horigan, Sophia, University of Chicago
Can We Save the Madagascan Flying Fox? A Localized Evaluation of Its Population Decline and the Role of Hunting in Its Demise

Iqbal, Azwad, Cornell University
Investigating the Genomic Basis of Rapid Adaptation of Invasive American Shad on the Pacific Coast of North America

Jacobs, Ellen, Georgetown University
Do Bottlenose Dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Modify Echolocation Behavior While Using Sponge Tools to Forage?

Jarvis, Rebecca, University of California, Berkeley
Investigating Clausal Structure in Atchan, a Kwa Language of Côte D'Ivoire

Jiménez, José Esteban, University of Florida
Understanding the Diversity of the Giant Plant Penus Peperomia (Piperaceae): A Mega-Diverse Group of Herbs in Colombia and Peru

Jolman, Devani L., Old Dominion University
Determining the Ecological Consequences of Hybridization by Analysis of Functional Traits Across Environments in Virginia

Karakehian, Jason Michael, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Specimens of Microfungi From Femsjö, Sweden, for Species Described by E. M. Fries

Kaump, Rebekah, University of California, Davis
Indigenous Global Climate Leadership: Embedding Indigenous Ecological Knowledge with Practice and Governance in Maya Ch’orti’ Territory in the Central American Dry Corridor

Kleinkopf, Joseph, University of New Mexico
Exploration of Alpine Floral Biodiversity in the Southern Rocky Mountains

Lama Sherpa, Tshering, University of Arizona
Tectonic Versus Climatic Controls on Long-Term Erosion Rates in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) Region, Eastern Nepal Himalaya

Laterza Barbosa, Julia, Yale University
Evolution Along the Vertical Dimension: Ground-to-Canopy Microhabitat Selection and Physiological Evolution in Neotropical Anurans in Brazil

Lautenschlager Rodrigues, Laís, University of Miami
Dietary Ecological Functioning of Large Mammalian Herbivores in a Brazilian Tropical Forest

Leahy, Ariel, Baylor University
Morphology and Metabolomics of the Thoracic Rete Mirabile in Stranded Odontocetes Across the United States

Leathers, Kyle, University of California, Berkeley
Determining Sierra Nevada Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Vulnerability as a Result of Climate Change

Lee, Juwon, University of California, Irvine
Living Nature: The Politics of Urban Ecologies in Contemporary South Korea

Lussier, Nicole, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Exploring How Ecosystem Functions Recover in the Endangered Chocó Rainforest of Northwest Ecuador

Marshall, Aubree Storm, Michigan State University
Resiliency in the Face of Collapse: Health and Diet in the Late Classic to Early Postclassic Periods at the Coastal Maya Site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize

Mertz, Conner, University of New Mexico
Does the Gut Microbiome Provide Protein to Its Host in the Wild? Year-Long Study Examining Gut Microbial Function Among Herbivorous Small Mammals Living in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

Milton, Emily, Michigan State University
Salt, Mist, and Stone: Reconstructing the Isotopic Footprints of Four 8,200-Year-Old Burials in Southern Peru

Montoya, Sofany M., University of Miami
The Effects of Ingestion on Seed Germination and the Seed Dispersal Potential of Florida Black Bears

Moreno, Shalimar Giovanna, East Carolina University
Evaluating the Effect of Reef Rugosity on Reef Community Metabolism and Carbonate Budgets in Bermuda

Mortimer, Sebastian, Oregon State University
Who’s Flowering and Who’s Not? The Influence of Extreme Environmental Gradients on Sex Ratio of North America Beach Strawberry Populations in Glacier Bay, Alaska

Mustofa, Adib, University of Southern California
Illuminating Genetic Population Structure and Symbiont Diversity of Acropora millepora Coral in Indonesia

Myers, Tanner Clarkson, Auburn University
Investigating Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Speciation and Local Adaptation in the Zebra Longwing Butterfly in Jamaica and Trinidad

Palmisciano, Melissa A., Stanford University
Examining the Mechanisms of Emergent Community Shifts Along a CO2 Gradient on Ischia: From Physiology to Species Interactions

Pham, Kasey K., University of Florida
What Got Swapped? Investigating the Genomic Consequences of Hybridization in Two Species of Eucalyptus in Tasmania, Australia

Phillips, Erin M., Princeton University
Understanding Carnivore Coexistence, Competition and Conservation Through the Restoration of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Roy, Supratik, Johns Hopkins University
Modern Versus Ancient Mountain Building Processes: Comparing the 30 Million-Year-Old Greater Himalayas, India, and the 1.8 Billion-Year-Old Trans-Hudson Orogeny, Canada

Rush, Jessica, University of Colorado, Boulder
Understanding How Carbon Quality Measurements Inform Alaskan Peatland Responses to a Changing Climate

Russo, Nicholas J., University of California, Los Angeles
A Feedback Loop Between 3D Vegetation Structure and Seed Dispersal by Hornbills in Cameroon

Schroll, Andrew, Tulane University
Organization of Lithic Technology in the Late Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley: The Poverty Point Lapidary Industry at the Jaketown Site, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi

Sellke, Sarah, Oregon State University
Understanding the Drivers of Invertebrate Recruitment and Temporal Changes in Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems in the Gulf of Panama

Siegert, Caroline M., Cornell University
Analysis of Angiosperm Reproductive Fossils of Laguna Del Hunco Fossil Site of Eocene Age in Chubut, Argentina

Sims, Jordan A., George Mason University
Biotic and Abiotic Influences on Microbial Community Biogeography on the Reefs of Roatán, Honduras

Srivastava, Bhaavya, Cornell University
Investigating Environmental Effects on Insect Chemicals in Hawaii

Stanley, Richard Collin, University of Florida
Social Networks in a Cooperatively Nesting Bird: The Behavioral Ecology of Palmchats in the Dominican Republic

Tarazona, Fabio L., University of Miami
Evaluating Plant-Frugivore Meta-Population Dynamics Across Defaunated Caribbean Islands

Thomas, Dustin Alec, University of Virginia
As Above, So It Is Below: Contextualizing the Ancient Cypriot Funerary Landscape of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Tomazic, Iride, University of Michigan
The Double-Edged Sword: Metallurgical Intensification at the Site of Crna Bara Periamoš, Serbia

Torres Pineda, Patricia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Morphological and Ecological Diversification of Poeciliid Fishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliinae) From the Dominican Republic

Vinod, Nidhi, University of California, Los Angeles
How Will Climate Change Impact the Future of Forest-Atmosphere Interactions in California?

Wagner, Jennifer Dawn, University of California, Berkeley
Eocene Leaf Compressions and Cuticles from Western Kentucky and Tennessee: A Paleoecological Investigation

Washington, Tatjana Monika, University of Chicago
Avian Nests in the Face of Climate Change in the West Himalayas, India

Watts, Jacob Lewis, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lichens: The Final Frontier of Biodiversity in the Extreme Conditions of the Rocky Mountains

Webb, Lucy, Stanford University
Exploring Lateral Variation Within the Pinguicula Group (<1.38–1 Ga) Across the Proterozoic Inliers of Yukon, Canada, to Constrain Paleoenvironmental Conditions During the Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Transition

Whitman, Taylor N., James Cook University
Understanding the Impact of Marine Reserve Status on the Predation and Survival of Juvenile Corals Seeded to Inshore Reefs in the Southern Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Wildtruth, fern C., University of California, Berkeley
Nitrogen Acquisition Strategies in Major Epiphytic Taxa Across Two Amazonian Forest Types, Reserva Nacional Allpahuayo-Mishana, Loreto, Peru

Wiseman-Jones, Lauren M., Washington University in St. Louis
The Physiological and Behavioral Responses of Virunga Mountain Gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei, to Social and Anthropogenic Stressors in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Xu, Tianyi, University of Texas at Austin
Snapshots Through Time: Unearthing Reptile Faunal Change in Jamaica and Identifying Future Conservation Strategies

Zilz, Zoe L., University of California, Santa Barbara
The Role of Terrestrial Consumers in Marine to Terrestrial Resource Subsidies on the Remote Southern California Coast
 

2021-2022

Abraham, Joel Opila, Princeton University
Fire-Flooding Interactions in Parque Nacional da Gorongosa, Mozambique

Baci, Erina, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Hillforts in Western Kosova From 1450–800 BCE

Bennett, Kathryn A., University of Montreal
Shoulder Season Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Peatland Thaw Ponds in Northern Sweden: A Notable Contribution to Annual Emissions?

Bentley, Nicholas, Texas A&M University
Searching for the First Americans: Geoarchaeological Investigations of Submerged Late Pleistocene Archaeological Sites in the Southeastern United States

Boyd, Anjali, Duke University
Effects of Top Predator Decline and Nutrient Pollution on Coastal Ecosystem Structure in the Eastern United States and the Caribbean

Brandao Dias F. Pinto, Pedro, Rice University
Combining Aquatic Invertebrate Sampling and Environmental DNA to Track the Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops in the American Midwest

Coyle, Carolyn M., Colorado State University
Evaluating Orioles, Wood-Warblers, and Other Songbirds as Novel Pollinators Across the Pacific Flyway, Oregon

Dashzeveg, Bukhchuluun, Yale University
Interregional Interaction and Transfer of Technology in Southern Siberia During the Late Bronze Age (1500–1000 BCE)

Dauda, Deborah, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Exploring the Indigenous Ways of Healing and the Self-Care Practices of Bajju Women in Southern Kaduna, Nigeria, with Experiences of Domestic Violence

Delgado, Alonso, Ohio State University
Is Venom Evolution Fundamentally Different in Sea Anemones? A Survey of the Aiptasiidae Family of Sea Anemones in Spain, France and the United Kingdom

Duckworth, Cory E., University of Pittsburgh
Exploring the Drivers of Pond Microbial Community Variability Across Environmental Gradients in the Eastern United States

Duran, Elena Mae Iacono, Texas A&M University
Impacts of Anthropogenic Mercury Contamination on Avian Parental Health and Behavior, and Direct and Indirect Effects on Offspring Health in Galveston Bay and Matagorda Bay, Texas

Estrada, Gene R., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Coming Down From the Trees: Determining the Influence of Ecological Variables on Terrestriality in an Indonesian Primate Community

Fannin, Luke D., Dartmouth College
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark: Ecology of Competing Photosynthetic Pathways Across North American Grasslands

Filla, Caitlynn, University of Florida
The Role of Ecotourism in the Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance Through a Protected Ecosystem in Andasibe, Madagascar

Fischer, Silas E., University of Toledo
Tracking Condition and Survival of Water-Supplemented Versus Drought-Stressed Juvenile Gray Vireos at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico

Fitzgerald, Jacquelyn L., Northwestern University
Disentangling the Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Body Size Variation in Rocky Mountain Bumble Bees

Fleming, Elijah, University of Texas at Austin
Exploring Diet and Death on the Roman Frontier: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Individuals Buried in a Stone-Built Tomb on the Western Coast of the Black Sea

Fleming, J. Morgan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Examining the Effects of Climate Change on the Body Size and Distribution of Desmognathus Salamanders in the Balsam Mountains of Virginia

Fortier, Riley, University of Miami
Some like It Hot: Changes in Tropical Tree Composition Across a Thermal Gradient at the Boiling River, Peru

Fowler, Katherine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Understanding the Lion's Share of the Lions' Hair: Determining Effects of Human-Wildlife Conflict on Lion Stress Physiology and Reproduction in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of Tanzania

Frykholm, Soren, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Excavations at Cerro Amole, a Postclassic Mixtec Capital (CE 900–1521) in Oaxaca, Mexico

Garcia Linares, Carlos, Boise State University
Light Pollution as a Driver of Insect Declines in Idaho: An Experimental and Mechanistic Investigation

Genes, Luisa, Stanford University
Regeneration of Tropical Secondary Forests in Costa Rica: Why Is Species Composition Recovery So Slow?

Gerraty, Frankie David, University of California, Santa Cruz
Trophic Cascades Across Ecosystems: Do Sea Otters Influence Spatial Subsidies Along the British Columbia Coastline?

Godtfredsen, Elsa, Northwestern University
Early Snowmelt, Changing Phenology, and Increased Drought Exposure: Exploring Consequences and Responses of Subalpine Plants in Colorado to Climate Change

Greene, Alex, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
People of the Traveling Gourd: The Circulation of Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Practice in the Hmong Diaspora in French Guiana and Wisconsin

Guerrera, Alexa, Florida State University
Rare Male Mating Advantages Inform Conservation Methods in Wild Trinidadian Guppies

Guthmann, Abby, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Niche Partitioning as a Mechanism for Coexistence: Dietary Overlap Between Domestic Cattle and Wild Ungulates in East African Savannah

Hansen, Katherine W., University of California, Santa Cruz
Territoriality and Sociality of African Wild Dogs in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Jódar-Sánchez, Jose Antonio, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Causality in Srenge, a Torricelli Language of Papua New Guinea

Keim, Rebecca, University of California, Riverside
The Biotic Interactions Between Invasive Plants and Native Ants in Endangered Coastal Sage Scrub of Southern California

Larson, Kara, University of Michigan
Overshadowed by a Tell: A Multi-Method Exploration of Residences Near Tell El Hesi, Israel, 3000 to 2200 BCE

Liu, Kuan-Ling, Texas A&M University
Breeding and Population Genetic Structure of Tapinoma sessile Across the United States

Luna-Celino, Deisi Vanessa, University of Florida
Institutional Arrangements for Fire Management in Quechua Communities in the Peruvian Andes

Malinowski, Halina A., Duke University
Seed to Sapling: Effects of Defaunation on Plant-Animal Interactions and Plant Recruitment in a Tropical Forest, Ivindo National Park, Gabon

Mamadou Yacoubou, Tajudeen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Tone-Intonation Interactions in Lexical Tone Languages: A Case Study of Dan in Cote d'Ivoire

Maynard, Keely Q., University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Bengal Slow Loris Population Surveys and Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis in Northeastern Thailand

McManus, Catherine, Temple University
Flitting or Fleeting: Are Butterflies Adapting to Urbanization in American Cities?

Meyer, Brett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Preclassic Sociopolitical Variability in the Belize Valley: A Zooarchaeological Perspective

Morgan, Bryn Elizabeth, University of California, Santa Barbara
Assessing the Vulnerability and Resilience of Riparian Plants to Water Stress Along an Ephemeral River in the Namib Desert

Munsterman, Katrina Sky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Exploring Optimal Foraging in a Common Reef Fish in the Bahamas

Murphy, Thomas H., University of Florida
Diversity and Ecoregion Shifts in the Neotropics: A Perspective From Climbing Plants in Brazil

Muscavitch, Zachary M., University of Connecticut
Resolving Symbiont Specificity for Endemic Lichens on the Channel Islands of California

Narasimhan, Kaushik, Tulane University
An Experimental, Field-Based Test of an Underappreciated Driver of Tropical Tree Diversity in Ecuador

Nelson, Lyle L., Johns Hopkins University
Assessing the Stratigraphic Relationship Between Neoproterozoic Glacial Deposits and Animal Evolution in the Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan

Nöbel, Kristina, ETH Zurich
The Formation Process of Rhyolitic Super-Eruptions: Insights From Basaltic Intercalations in the Snake River Plain, Idaho

Pagaldevatti, Sumashini Sundararajan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Role of Seed-Fungal Interactions in Shaping Tree Species Diversity in the Tropical Forests of the Western Ghats, India

Paiva, Dario Caminha, Florida International University
Ecophysiology of Flowers in a Speciose Neotropical Mountain Ecosystem in Brazil

Pappo, Emily, University of Florida
Evaluating the Effects of Climate Fluctuations on Coffee Quality in Antigua, Guatemala

Poon, Chiu Lok, University of Central Florida
Moon Phobia in Sand-Burrowing Electric Fish in Colombia: Trade-Offs Between Foraging and Predation Risk

Ramananjato, Veronarindra, University of California, Berkeley
Traveling Seeds in Madagascar: How Do They Survive in Human-Modified Landscapes?

Randimbiarimanana, Clara, University of Arizona
Exploring Local Ecological Funds of Knowledge in Southern Madagascar

Rempel, Hannah S., University of Texas at Austin
Quantifying the Critical Role of Grazing by Herbivorous Fishes Across an Environmental Gradient on a Caribbean Coral Reef

Renzi, Julianna J., University of California, Santa Barbara
Exploring the Distribution and Drivers of Coral Disease in Moorea, French Polynesia

Ring, Kacie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vector-Borne Disease Risk Across Land-Use Gradients in Rural Madagascar

Rodrigues, Patricia F., Louisiana State University
Cross-Continental Comparison of Ant-Following Bird Behavior in Africa to Help Explain Global Declines

Rubinatto Serrano, Juliana, University of Florida
Ethnoarchaeology of Fisherpeople in the Baía De Caxiuanã, Lower Amazon, Brazil

Sibson, Benjamin, Harvard University
Effects of Physical Activity and Subsistence Strategy on Back Muscle Properties and Spine Function in Western Kenya

Sondhi, Yash, Florida International University
Moths and Light: Exploring Moth Phototaxis Behavior and the Influence of Light Pollution on Moth Circadian Activity in Costa Rica

Sperou, Emily Suzanne, Baylor University
Comparing the Adaptive Capacity of an Antarctic Top Predator, the Leopard Seal, Between Polar and Subpolar Environments in the Southern Hemisphere

Thiel, Amanda M., Washington State University
Valuing Gastronomy and Related Plant Knowledge in Southern Mexico

Tierney, Julie, Princeton University
Unearthing Drivers of Biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon

Van Driessche, Jeremy, University of Idaho
The Influence of Tusklessness on Foraging Behavior of Female African Elephants (loxodonta Africana) in Mozambique

von Mayrhauser, Melissa M., University of California, Berkeley, Assessing the Potential for Wastewater Effluent to Restore Riverine Bird Habitat in Southern California Rivers

Waddle, Ellen, University of Colorado, Boulder
Asymmetrical Gene Flow May Inhibit Adaptation in Alpine Plant Systems in South-Central Alaska

Wardle, Joseph D., University of Michigan
Life in a Small Fortified Village After the Collapse of Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

Webster, Kathleen, University of New Mexico
Assessing the Vulnerability of Island Endemic Herpetofauna to Environmental Change in the Comoros Archipelago

Welsh, Gabrielle, University of Denver
Responses of Female Pacific Field Crickets in Australia, French Polynesia, and Hawaii to Newly Evolved Hawaiian Male Songs

Wuensch, Matthew A., Kent State University
Behavioral Responses of White-Tailed Deer in Ohio and Wyoming to the Direct Chemical Cues of Multiple Predator Species

Wuesthoff, Eric, Rice University
Exploring the Role of Community-Managed Forests in Lemur Spatial Ecology and Seed Dispersal in Eastern Madagascar

Zeitler, Lilly, Pennsylvania State University
Discovering the Spiritual Agroecological Significance of Karen Rotational Farming for a Special Cultural Zone Designation to Protect Biocultural Diversity in Thailand

Zhaxi, Sangjie, University of Colorado, Boulder
Surviving Settlement: An Ethnographic Study of Settled Herders on the Tibetan Plateau

2020-2021

Afolayan, Eniola, University of Virginia
Navigating Religious Pluralism in a West African Landscape: The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

Aguado, William, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
The Role of Plant Chemistry in the Foraging Behavior and Health of Bornean Orangutans

Alvarez, Valentina, University of Hawaii, Manoa
A Native Hawaiian Squamate? Timing the Invasion of the Oceania Snake-Eyed Skink to Hawaii

Appiah-Adu, Siaw, Syracuse University
Finding the Gonja Kingdom: Precolonial State Formation in Northern Ghana

Becker, Anna, University of Florida
The Evolution of Hawaiian Blueberries (Vaccinium)

Becker, Naomi, Johns Hopkins University
Plagiogranite Petrogenesis in the Leka Ophiolite Complex, Norway

Couper, Lisa, Stanford University
Will Mosquitoes Adapt to Climate Change? Investigating Adaptation in Tree Hole Mosquitoes in Western North America

Cummings, Brittany M., University of Florida
Coloring Outside the Lines: Reconstructing the Bizarre Evolution of Corophioid Amphipods

Depenthal, Johanna, University of Florida
Roots of Communities' Adaptations in Forest-Based Livelihoods in the Selva Maya: Values, Perceptions, and Identities in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Diewald, Noah, Ohio State University
Anaphoric Properties of Ecuadoran Wao Tededo Classifiers

Drummond, Emily, University of California, Berkeley
Investigating the Loss of Ergativity in Micronesian Nukuoro

Ellis, Mike, Tulane University
Shades of Green: Impacts of Time, Climate, and Fragmentation Gradients on Understory Bird Communities in Northwest Ecuador

Flores-Blanco, Luis A., University of California, Davis
The Roots of Social Complexity in the Lake Titicaca Basin in Peru Four Thousand Years Ago

Gaetano, Madison Q., University of Cincinnati
Forage and Soil Mineral Concentrations as Drivers of Variation in Antler Growth and Consumption by Female Caribou in Newfoundland, Canada

Gamez, Siria, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Cats in the Canopy: Investigating the Arboreal Ecology of Elusive Carnivores of Chiapas, Mexico

Gartner, Samantha M., University of Chicago
Phylogenetic Analyses of Biomechanical Novelties and the Mechanical Properties of Cranial Ligaments in the Wrasses and Parrotfishes (Family Labridae) in Moorea-Maiao, French Polynesia

Geisse, Alissa R., Ohio State University
Panamanian Fungus-Growing Ant Species Network Shaped by Volatile Chemicals

Gijsman Kelemu, Finote A., Princeton University
Disentangling Ecological Cascades: How the Loss of Megafauna Affects Dung Beetle Food Webs and Ecosystem Services in African Savannas

Guerrero, Leslie, University of California, Davis
Evolution of Thermal Tolerance in Reef Building Corals in Moorea, French Polynesia

Guisneuf, Nicole Catherine, University of Michigan
The Ontogeny of "Twitter" Calls in Liberian White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Usage and Context

Haberkern, Andrea, University of British Columbia
Trade-Offs of Prey Capture Success, Predation Risk, and Energetic Investment as a Function of Spider Web Architecture in Tropical Ecuador

Hernandez, Adriana I., Cornell University
Identifying Drivers of Diversity and Ecologically Functional Traits in the Hypervariable California Endemic Lily, Calochortus venustus

Holguin, Brian, University of California, Santa Barbara
Reorganization of Mobility and Foraging Behavior During a Period of Intense Environmental Volatility: Adaptations to the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (AD 900–1300) by the Chumash of the Northern Channel Islands

Hoover, Hannah Grace, University of Michigan
Negotiating Difference: Yamasee Coalescence in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century South Carolina

Jones, John Anthony, Tulane University
Determining the Behavioral Underpinnings of Diverse Female Ornamentation Among Seven Closely Related Malurus Fairywrens in Papua New Guinea

Jurado, Alexander Bernard, Tulane University
Lifeways at the Onset of Urbanization in Formative Central Mexico: A View From Tlalancaleca

Kamanzi Shimwa, Axelle, George Washington University
Variation in the Acquisition of Dietary Independence in Wild Virunga Mountain Gorillas, Rwanda

Kaya, Ziya, University of Arizona
Digital Data Farming: The Remaking of Agriculture, Tradition, and Livelihoods in Western Turkey

Kullberg, Alyssa, University of Miami
A Window Into Tree Acclimation to Climate Change in the Amazon at the Boiling River, Peru

Lowe, Alex, University of Washington
Variation in Morphology-Based Leaf Functional Traits Across Forest Succession in North Carolina: Recognizing Ecological Disturbance in the Geologic Past

Martin, Kelly, University of Idaho
What Governs Population Structure in Land Snails Across the Galapagos Islands Ecosystems?

Mashburn, Brock, Washington University in St. Louis
Leis and Bouquets: Biogeography and Conservation Genetics of the Iconic and Critically Endangered Indian and Pacific Ocean Island Hibiscus

McDaniel, Kevin, University of Florida
Aquatic Resources and the Culinary Landscape of Pre-Columbian Amazon at Baia De Caxiuana, Pará, Brazil

McNichol, Bailey Holland, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Quantifying Fine-Scale Patterns of Herbaceous Plant Diversity at a Biogeographic Crossroads in an Era of Global Change, Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska

Micheletti, George Justin, University of Central Florida
Exploring the Classic Period Agency of Rural Settlement at the Ancient Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize

Morris, Rebecca M., University of Texas at San Antonio
Experiencing Political Authority: Investigations of a Classic Maya Palace at Las Ruinas De Arenal, Belize

Moutouama, Jacob Koudouonon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Using Thunbergia atacorensis Populations in West Africa as a Natural Evolutionary Laboratory to Understand Range Limitation

Mueller, Taryn, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Untangling the Influence of Host Phenotypic Variation, Genotype, and Environment on Microbial Community Assembly of Foliar Endophytes in Clarkia xantiana, California

Nash, Brendan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tracking Ancient Caribou Hunters in the Early Holocene: Exploring a Submerged Landscape Below Lake Huron

Psimogiannou, Aikaterini, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pace(s) of Change: Temporality, Archaeological Chronologies, and Political Centralization From the End of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age II (Fourth to Third Millennium B.C.E.) on the Greek Mainland

Reid-Shaw, Indiana, University of California, Santa Cruz
Assessing a New Governance Strategy Intended to Combat Climate-Induced Fishery Impacts in Kiribati

Russell, Imani, University of California, Santa Barbara
Genetic Drivers of Host Susceptibility and Pathogen Virulence in the Chytrid Frog System Across the Sierra Nevada

Satterfield, Darien, University of California, Davis
Does Morphology Constrain Diversity in Hawaiian Damselfish Behavior?

Sedaghatpour, Maryam, University of California, Berkeley
Spatial Phylogenetics of the Mediterranean Ecoregion of the Al-Sham Flora in Lebanon

Sinha, Sinjini, University of Texas at Austin
Assessing the Paleoecological Changes of Marine Communities Through Extinction Events in the Early Jurassic (Late Pliensbachian-Toarcian) Period in Morocco

Soza, Danielle Renae, University of Arizona
The Mobile Household of the Ancestral Blackfoot (1300–1650 C.E.): Archaeological Investigations of Stone Ring Sites, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana

Stemle, Leyna, University of Miami
Estimating Population Synchrony Among Pond-Breeding Amphibians With Application to Two Endangered Salamander Species in California

Suarez Calderon, Amanda, University of Pittsburgh
The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Pre-Columbian Site Java in Southern Costa Rica

Tenorio, Elkin A., American Museum of Natural History
Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Bird Communities Along Elevational Gradients of the Tropical Andes in Colombia and the Temperate Sierra Nevada Mountains in California

Tobias, Zachary J. C., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Rapid Adaptation During Range Expansion of the Invasive Golden Star Tunicate (Botryllus schlosseri) in the Pacific Northwest

Torres Cruz, Terry Jarianna, Pennsylvania State University
Fungus (Fusarium) Inducing Flower-Like Structures on Yellow-Eyed Grasses (Xyris) in Western Guyana and Its Potential Influence on Insect Attraction

Turner, Madison, Johns Hopkins University
Explorations of the Quaternary Peoria Loess in Nebraska: A Terrestrial Analogue for Martian Aeolian Dust Deposition

Urquhart-Cronish, Mackenzie J., University of British Columbia
Investigating Contemporary and Historical Drivers of Range-Wide Mating System Evolution in Mimulus lewisii Across the Western United States

Varillas, Rosa M., University of Illinois at Chicago
Mapping Puerto Inka: Understanding a Coastal Waystation Connecting the Pacific Ocean With the Highland City of Cuzco, Peru

Vasquez, Syon S., University of California, Los Angeles
Archaeological Survey of Enigmatic Anthropomorphic Geoglyphs in the Palpa Valley, Peru (circa A.D. 200–700)

Wilcots, Megan E., University of Minnesota
Assessing the Effects of Increasing Nutrient Availability on Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Alaskan Arctic

Winans, John, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Individual Heterogeneity in Social Responsiveness Among Savannah Baboons of the Amboseli Basin, Kenya

Winikoff, Jason, University of British Columbia
The Music of the Masks: Zambian Luvale Percussion, Makishi Performance, and Timbral Aesthetics

Winitsky, Sophia Elizabeth, Montana State University
A Search for Rare Beans: Phylogenomic Investigations Into the Evolution of the Legume Genus Marina in California, Arizona, and Mexico

Zimmt, Joshua B., University of California, Berkeley
Determining How Climate Change Caused the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction: Applying New Approaches to the Fossil and Stratigraphic Records on Anticosti Island, Canada
 

2019-2020

Allen, Chris, University of California, Riverside
Consequences for Native Bee Communities: Documenting the Impact of Pathogen Introduction on the California Channel Islands

Anderson, H. Luke M., Tulane University
Breeding Biology of the Enigmatic Green Manakin (Cryptopipo holochlora) in Northwestern Ecuador: Insights into the Evolutionary Loss of Sexual Dimorphism

Anderson-Huxley, Jared Dean, University of California, Riverside
Adapt, Move, or Go Extinct: Will Species on the Tops of Mountains Survive Climate Change? A Case Study Using Alpine Plants in the Rocky Mountains of Montana

Arnoldi, Natalie, Stanford University
Understanding the Role of Mobile Marine Predators in Fostering Reef-Pelagic Connectivity in Palau’s National Marine Sanctuary

Barriga Bahamonde, Cecilia B., George Mason University
Relationship Between Community Structure of Frugivorous Mammals and the Provision of Ecosystem Services in the Peruvian Amazon

Bernstetter, Jessica, University of Missouri
Water as Wealth: The Impact of the Aqua Augusta on Water Consumption in Roman Pompeii, Italy

Bossi, Madeline, University of California, Berkeley
Understanding Agree in Kalenjin Languages of Western Kenya

Burke, Adam M., Texas A & M University
Paddling for Provenance: A Diachronic Geochemical and Behavioral Analysis of Toolstone Procurement and Use in Florida's Riverine Lithic Landscapes

Cameron, Asa, Yale University
Crafting the Nomadic State: Isotopic Perspectives into State Formation and Statecraft Processes During the Early Iron Age (c. 1000–400 BC) and Xiongnu Period (c. 250 BC–150 AD) in Mongolia

Clow, Travis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Pleistocene to Recent Geomorphic and Incision History of the Northern Rio Grande Gorge, New Mexico: Constraints From Field Mapping and Cosmogenic 3He Surface Exposure Dating

Dale, Katherine, University of California, Santa Cruz
Across the Border: Genetic Connectivity and Habitat Filtering in the California Moray Eel (Gymnothorax mordax)

Davis, Dylan, Pennsylvania State University
Studying the Effects of Environmental Change on the Prehistoric Settlement of Southwest Madagascar

Dederich, Ashley, Utah State University
The Interplay of Host Life Cycles With Symbiont Genome Evolution and Host Diversification Across the Aphid Life-Cycle in Several U.S. States

Dolan, Lacy, Mississippi State University
Landscape Genetics, Dietary Analysis, and Morphology of a Recolonizing Population of Black Bears in Mississippi

Donaghy, Erin Elizabeth, Purdue University
The Role of Cenozoic Oceanic Plateau Collision in the Tectonic Growth of Western North America: Geologic Connections Between Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the Yellowstone Hotspot

Duenas-Garcia, Manuel, University of California, Merced
Analyzing the Role of Violence in Settlement Patterns Along the Northern Frontier of Epiclassic Mesoamerica (600–900 CE): The Case of Cerro de en medio, Mexico

Dunford, Michael, Australian National University
The Politics of Pickled Tea: Ecological and Ethnic Practice in Myanmar's Laphet Economy

Dye, Mysia, Florida State University
Investigating Shifts in Reproductive Isolation of Chorus Frogs Driven by Environmental Change in the Southeastern United States

Evans, Erica S. J., Yale University
Investigating the Role of Arc-Collision and Weathering in Changing Earth's Biosphere: Insights From the Ordovician of Peru

Ezedin, Zacky, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Developing the Tree Flora and Documenting Biocultural Knowledge in the Threatened Forests of the Middle Ramu River Basin in Papua New Guinea

Freymiller, Grace A., San Diego State University
Interspecific Variation in Evasive Leaping of Heteromyid Rodents in Southwestern North America: Linking Morphology and Ecological Performance to the Evolution of Bipedalism in Desert Rodents

Garzon-Oechsle, Andres Esteban, Florida Atlantic University
In-Between the Sites: Understanding Late Holocene Manteño Agricultural Practices in the Cloud Forest of Coastal Ecuador Through Remote Sensing, Excavation, and Charcoal Analysis

Gavin-Smyth, Nora, Northwestern University
Ecology and Phylogeography of Tanzania's Eastern Arc Endemic Impatiens

Gorczynski, Daniel, Rice University
The Role of Vegetation in Maintaining Tropical Rainforest Mammal Functional Diversity

Hersh, Taylor, Dalhousie University
El Niño Events and Galápagos Sperm Whale Cultural Turnover

Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Microbial Silicification in Yellowstone Hot Springs: Potentials for the Interpretation of the Precambrian Fossil Record

Hiller, Anna E., Louisiana State University
Genomics of Mountain Speciation: Surveying Replicate Hybrid Zones in the Diglossa Flowerpiercers of the Tropical Andes

Holzheuser, Chace, Florida State University
Population Genetics of the Disappearing Southern Dusky Salamander in the Southeastern United States

Joyce, Francis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Disentangling Local and Landscape Effects on Vertebrate Dispersal of Large-Seeded Trees in Regenerating Tropical Forest in Costa Rica

Justen, Hannah, Texas A&M University
The Genetics Basis of the Migratory Syndrome in a North American Songbird, British Columbia

Khalil, Sarah, Tulane University
How Birds Make Flashy Feathers: Crimson Versus Orange in Australia's Red-Backed Fairywrens

Killeen, Helen, University of California, Davis
The Effect of Small-Scale Nearshore Oceanographic Fronts in Bodega Bay, California, on Planktonic Communities, Larval Transport, and Survival

Kitchel, Zoe, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Trait Variability in Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) From the Mid-Atlantic to Northern New England: Implications for Marine Range Shifts in the Face of Rapid Climate Change

Lapierre, Myriam, University of California, Berkeley
The Study of Nasal Harmony in the Capivara Dialect of Kayabi, Xingu Indigenous Land, Matto Grosso, Brazil

Lonsdale, Mary, Johns Hopkins University
Assessing Alteration of the Carbon Isotope Record at the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in the Zavkhan Terrane, Southwestern Mongolia

McKeeby, Zachary, University of Virginia
Frontier Political Economies: The Socioeconomic Context of Iron Production and Exchange in the Machili Valley, Zambia, 700–1500 CE

Mendoza Becerra, Ana Patricia, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Unexplored Diversity of the Canopy: Herpesviruses of Spider Monkeys in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

Millar, Jane, University of Texas at Austin
Archaeobotanical Investigations of Food, Economy, and Environment in a Punic-Roman City, Western Sardinia

Morriss, Matthew, University of Oregon
Geomorphology of the Burnt River, Eastern Oregon: Topographic Adjustments to Tectonic and Dynamic Deformation

Muteti, Samuel, University of Minnesota
The Emergence of Crown Hominoids From the Middle Miocene (16–11 Ma) of the Nyanza Rift, Western Kenya

Nelson, Lyle, Johns Hopkins University
Calibrating Integrated Records of Evolutionary and Environmental Change Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in Northwestern South Africa

Nemes, Claire, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Impacts of Free-Roaming Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on Nonbreeding Birds in South Florida

Okhai, Disha, Purdue University
Fingerprinting a Fossil Magma Chamber: Magmatic Processes in an Oligocene Pluton in the Stillwater Range, Nevada

Orrick, Katherine, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Socio-Ecological Landscape of Predators, Prey, and Humans Between the Makgadikgadi National Park and Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

Osborn, Jo, University of Michigan
Archaeological Survey in the Unknown Topará Valley, Peru

Ou, Suzanne, Stanford University
Digging Deep: The Role of Mutualistic Soil Microbes in Shaping Tropical Forests in Borneo

Price, Seth, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Raised Fields and Sustainable Agricultural Trajectories in the Late Chimu Empire (1300–1470 AD) in the Casma Valley of North Coastal Peru

Radomski, Tom, University of Minnesota
Toward Improved Forecasts of Rare Species? Geographic Ranges Under Climate Change: The Case of a Mountain Endemic Salamander in North Carolina’s South Mountains

Ramesh, Vijay, Columbia University
Hiding in Plain Sight: Unlocking the Potential of Historical Data to Inform Spatial Range Dynamics of Birds in the Western Ghats, Southern India

Reed, Courtney, Brown University
Predation Risk Promotes Biodiversity in a Kenyan Savanna

Sánchez-Morales, Lara Mercedes, University of Texas at Austin
A Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Alluvial Landscape Changes and Human Land Use in North-Central Puerto Rico

Scata, Gabriella, University of Queensland
Octopus Says It With the Skin: Status Signaling and Individual Recognition in the Reef Octopus, Abdopus, Lizard Island, Australia

Sierra, Jennifer, University of Michigan
Shipibo-Konibos Recontextualization in the Peruvian Amazon of Social Intimacy From Face-to-Face to Social Media Interaction

Sondhi, Yash, Florida International University
Quantifying Diel Activity of Nocturnal and Crepuscular Lepidoptera Under Different Light Pollution Levels in South Florida

Struble, William, University of Oregon
Characteristic Scales of Drainage Reorganization in Cascadia

Tolentino Ramos, Giovanni, University of Oklahoma
Source or Sink? Evaluating population Structure in Collared Pikas in Alaska

Walkowski, Whitney, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
The Relationship Between Color Signals and Retinal Color Sensitivity in Dendrobatid Frogs: A Comparative Approach, Gamboa, Panama

Weiner, Robert, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ancient Roads of the Chaco Phenomenon: The Dating, Use, and Meanings of Monumental Avenues in the U.S. Southwest

2018-2019

Adams, Julia, University of California, Riverside
Lichen Symbiont Diversity Across Environmental Gradients in the Mojave Desert

Agostini, Mark R., Brown University
Constructing the Cosmos: An Archaeology of Sacred Landscapes in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico, AD 1325–1700

Allen, Kaitlin E., University of Kansas
Testing the Pleistocene Refugial Hypothesis in Highland Versus River Systems in Cameroon

Alonge, Mattina M., University of California, Berkeley
Interaction of Reproductive Costs and Elevation on Hibernation Energetics in Townsend's Big-Eared Bats of California's White-Inyo Mountains

Barrett, Meghan, Drexel University
Temperature Effects on the Stability of the Alternative Reproductive Tactics of Dimorphic Centris pallida Male Bees in Arizona

Basham, Edmund W., University of Florida
Step Aside Wildebeest: How the Seasonal Micro-Migration of the Small Panamanian Yellow-Bellied Poison Frog (Andinobates fulguritus) Can Shed Light on the Evolution of Habitat Fidelity and Chemical Defense

Birkmann, Joseph Manuel, University of New Mexico
Early Farming in the Southern Southwest: The Middle Archaic and Early Agricultural Period Occupation of the Fishhooks Wilderness Area, Arizona

Bongers, Jacob Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles
Huaca La Meseta: Exploring a Monumental Stone Complex in a Peruvian Cloud Forest

Brock, Kinsey M., University of California, Merced
Evolution, Divergence, and Speciation in a Fragmenting Landscape in the Greek Cyclades Islands

Butler, Brett O., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The Tale of Two Gecko Subspecies: Examining Phylogeographic Barriers and Population Structure of the Yucatan Banded Gecko

Dashzeveg, Bukhchuluun, Yale University
Bronze and Early Iron Age (1500–700 BC) Mortuary Practices of Pastoral Nomads of the Southern Mongolian Gobi Desert: Interaction, Technology, and Social Changes

Deans, Susan Malia, Northwestern University
The Influence of Pollinators and Floral Antagonists in an Evolutionary Shift of Floral Traits in Eight Hawaiian-Endemic Hibiscus (Malvaceae)

Diamond, Alex, University of Texas at Austin
Experiences of Pacification: Post-Conflict Transition in Colombia's Peace Laboratory

Donn, Leila, University of Texas at Austin
Using a LiDAR-Based Machine-Learning Method to Study Karst Formation and Search for a High-Resolution Stalagmite Climate Record in Guatemala's Tropical Forest

Doyle, Colin, University of Texas at Austin
Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture as Adaptation to Environmental Change in Northwest Belize

Earle, Julia Elizabeth, University of Texas at Austin
Technological Variation, Material Selection, and Labor Organization at Inka Quarries in the Sacred Valley, Peru

East, Grace Marie, University of Virginia
Belonging Out of Place: Hausa Linguistic Practice in Accra's Immigrant Neighborhoods

Eshleman, Sara, University of Texas at Austin
Soil and Microclimatic Influences on Vegetation Distribution in Belize

Fillion, Elizabeth, New York University
Using Dental Microwear Texture Analysis to Examine Vegetation Change Associated with Pliocene Hominin Turnover at Laetoli, Tanzania

Fiocca, Katherine, Drexel University
Understanding Developmental Timing and Flexibility of Caste Determination in a Tropical Eusocial Wasp: Implications for Reproductive Plasticity and Social Cooperation

Forrister, Dale L., University of Utah
Does Leafing Phenology Drive Insect Seasonality in Yasuní, Ecuador, an Aseasonal Rainforest?

Gilbert, Anthony, Ohio University
Adaptation to Global Environmental Change: Interactions Between Thermal and Hypoxia Adaptation at Extreme Elevations, Pyrenees Mountains, France

Golden, Abigail, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Tracking the River Wolf: Establishing a Baseline of Pre-Hydropower Habitat Use by an Endangered Salmonid in the Eg-Selenge Watershed, Northern Mongolia

Gonzalez, Sara Tasse, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Future of Kelp as a Natural Resource: Environmental and Genetic Drivers of Chemical Variation in Giant Kelp of Chile

Gross, Collin, University of California, Davis
Interactive Effects of Predator and Prey Functional Traits and Phylogenetic Structure on Assembly of Faunal Communities Associated With Central California Eelgrass Beds

Grupstra, Carsten G. B., Rice University
The Ecology of Coral Viruses: Establishing a Link Between Coral Predation and Viral Infection in French Poylnesia

Haba, Yuki, Princeton University
Urban Evolution: Behavioral Evolution in Culex pipiens Mosquitoes in Major Cities of the Eastern United States

Hansen, Kimberly M., Washington State University
Phylogeography and Species Delimitation in the Neotropical Kohleria spicata (Gesneriaceae) in Colombia and Panama

Hodgskiss, Malcolm Stewart William, Stanford University, Searching for Global Signals in the Orosirian δ13C Record at Lakes Mistassini and Albanel, Quebec

Howe-Kerr, Lauren, Rice University
Viral Contributions to the Degradation of a Host-Microbe Symbiosis in French Polynesia

Krause, Johannes, Academy of Natural Sciences
Blue Carbon in a Mexican Lagoon: Understanding Organic Matter Cycling Across Dynamic Habitat Boundaries

Larios, Jennifer, University of Michigan
Ungara Mapping Project, Canete, Peru

Lau, Tyler, University of California, Berkeley
Bilingualism and the Development of Tonal Languages in Northeastern Thailand

Lewis, Claire J., University of Hawaii at Manoa
Does the Indian Ocean Harbor Ancient or Recent Cryptic Species of the Coral Genus Pavona?

Machado, Mario Reinaldo, Clark University
Sustainable Landscapes, Sustainable Communities: Landscapes, Livelihoods and Ecology Through Cuba's Agricultural Transition

Macias, Diana S., University of New Mexico
Testing the Trade-Off Between Reproductive Output and Vegetative Growth for Mast Seeding Pinon Pine (Pinus edulis) in Semi-Arid New Mexico

Milici, Valerie, University of Connecticut
How Precipitation and Plant Disease Influence Species Diversity in Panama

Millikin, Alexie, Yale University
Timing, Tempo, and Drivers of Tonian (1000–720 Ma) Eukaryotic Diversification: Insights From the Radiogenic Isotope Record of Nordaustlandet Svalbard

Monk, Julia, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Predator-Prey Interactions and Nutrient Cycling in the High Andes of Central Argentina

Montgomery, Graham, University of Connecticut
A New Ecological Cascade: Insect Declines and Consequences for Insectivorous Birds in the Eastern United States

Mustapha, Mohammed, University of Florida
An Archaeometallurgical Investigation of Nasia: Implications for the Socio-Technical Development of the Mamprugu Kingdom of Northern Ghana

Nachman, Lev, University of California, Irvine
From Sunflowers to Suits: Movement Party Formation in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Napolitano, Matthew F., University of Oregon
Colonization of the Islands of Stone Money: Archaeological Excavation on the Remote Islands of Yap, Western Micronesia

Olya, Najee, University of Virginia
Constructing the African in Ancient Greek Vase Painting: Images, Meanings, and Contexts

Packer, Michelle, University of Texas at Arlington
Evolutionary Insights From Endemic Predator Reintroductions: Linking Daphnia Evolution to Stickleback Phenotypes in Alaskan Lake Ecosystems

Pomerantz, Aaron, University of California, Berkeley
Unraveling the Development, Genetics, and Evolution of Wing Transparency in Panamanian Butterflies

Powell, Emily A., University of Miami
The Role of Variable Visual and Olfactory Mate-Recognition Signals in Reproductive Isolation Among Populations of the Reef Gecko (Sphaerodactylus notatus) in Florida and the Bahamas

Rahman, Tariq, University of California, Irvine
Liquid Land: A Diasporic Market and the Making of Lahore, Pakistan

Ramirez Amaya, Sebastian, Arizona State University
Male-Female Relationships in Ugandan Ngogo Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Pair-Bonding in Humans

Ridge, William Patrick, University of Illinois at Chicago
Investigating Large-Scale Settlement Decline During the Bodrogkeresztur Period (4000–3500 BCE) in Eastern Hungary

Rosen, Noah, American University
Maximizing a Window of Opportunity: Collective Organizing in the Colombian Peace Process

Rouvier, Ruth, University of California, Berkeley
Yurok Language Revitalization in Northwestern California: Affective Stance and Language Learning Outcomes

Rubin, Juliette J., Boise State University
Testing an Anti-Predator Sensory Illusion in the Wild in Florida: Next Steps in the Bat-Moth Arms Race

Smith, Annika L., University of Florida
Have Whole Genome Duplications Driven Transitions in Pollination Syndromes in the Chilean Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum sect. Chilensia)?

Smith, Maria G., Princeton University
Division of Labor and Its Fitness Implications in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird in Panama

Spicer, Michelle Elise, University of Pittsburgh
Assembly in the Air: Experimentally Testing Alternative Hypotheses of Epiphyte Community Development in Neotropical Forest Canopies in Panama

Stager, Maria, University of Montana, Missoula
Drivers of Variation in Seasonal Physiological Flexibility Among Junco Populations of the Western United States

Tribble, Carrie Malina, University of California, Berkeley
Evolution and Domestication of the Pre-Columbian Crop Plant Bomarea edulis in Brazil

van den Bold, Mara Gabrielle, Clark University
Greening Energy: The Politics of Solar Power in Senegal

Vigar, Robert J., University of Pennsylvania
My World, My Earth Is a Ruin: Dispossession, Repossession, and Archaeology in Egyptian Nubia

Wang, Shujing, New York University
Power Construction and Exchange Networks in the Borderlands: A Unique Late Iron Age Elite Burial Assemblage in the Periphery of the Bukhara Oasis in Uzbekistan

2017-2018

Atwater, Montana, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Fluttering Above the Forest Line: Flower-Settling Moths of the Colombian Paramos

Bodensteiner, Brooke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Assessing Local Adaptation and Physiological Plasticity to Predict Range Expansion in a Montane Lizard, Pyrenees Mountains, France

Breeden, Benjamin Thomas, University of Utah
The Toarcian Biotic Turnover in East Asia: New Geochemical and Paleontological Insights From the Lower Jurassic Nishinakayama Formation of Southwestern Japan

Budd, Kiristin R., University of Missouri
Current Connectivity and the Effect of Habitat Disturbance on the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) in Central Lao Peoples Democratic Republic

Busch, James, Dartmouth College
Disentangling the Environment, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Shuram Carbon Isotope Excursion and Ediacaran Fossils in Northwestern Canada

Choi, Noori, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Signal Diversification of a Multi-Species Assemblage of Schizocosa Wolf Spiders in Mississippi: A Novel "Vibrational Soundscape" Analysis for Animal Communication Study

Cornejo, Fanny M., Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Unraveling the Evolution of Panama Night Monkeys for Taxonomy, Phylogenetics, and Conservation

Cutler, Joseph, University of California, Santa Cruz
Running the Ogooue River: Ichthyologists Race Hydroelectric Developers to Protect Gabon's Freshwater Biodiversity

Dawson, Virginia, University of California, Berkeley
Strategies of Disjunction in Tiwa, Umswai, India

Diamond, Kelly M., Clemson University
Do the Best Come First? An Examination of Migration Performance Over the Course of Migration Pulses Among Hawaiian Stream Fishes

Dillon, Erin M., University of California, Santa Barbara
Reconstructing Historical Shark Communities on Pacific Reefs in Panama

DiNapoli, Robert J., University of Oregon
The Evolution of the Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) Monumental Landscape

Freund, Cathryn, Wake Forest University
The Role of Landslides in Tropical Montane Forest Diversity and Species Responses to Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes

Gibson, Joshua Caleb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Evolution and Functional Morphology of Australian Trap-Jaw Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Herman, Jordan M., University of Utah
Do Ecologically Distinct Argentine Parasites Have Interacting Effects on Host Fitness?

Hoequist, Ida, University of Virginia
The Use of Language, Music, and the Speech Surrogates Between Them in Wamsok, Papua New Guinea

Hollarsmith, Jordan, University of California, Davis
Deep Sea Kelp Ecosystems: Quantifying Marine Biodiversity at Unexplored Depths in Baja California Sur, Mexico

Hutter, Carl, University of Kansas
The Impact of Co-Occurrence and Acoustic Partitioning on Mating Signal Evolution in Replicate Assemblages of Frogs From Madagascar

Jackson, Margaret S., Dartmouth College
Constraining Cosmogenic Helium-3 Production Rates Over Time Using Lava Flows From the Valley of the Volcanoes, Peru

Jantzen, Johanna, University of Florida
Diversification and Niche Evolution in Neotropical Tibouchina s.s. (Melastomataceae) in Brazil

Lado, Paula, Ohio State University
Unravelling Tick-Borne Disease Dynamics Across the United States: An Integrated Approach

Lana, Justin Thomas, Duke University
Assessing Disease Risk in Humans and Domestic Dogs Using GPS Tracking Devices: A Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Case Study in Peru

Lin, Yi-Ling, Washington University in St. Louis
The Environmental Effect of Bronze Production During the Shang Dynasty at Anyang, Henan Province, China

Loy, Xingwen, Emory University
Impacts of Pollination Network Structure on Pollination Function in Colorado

Medina, F. Nicolas, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Fig-Stranglers Hybridize: Testing the Significance of Hybridization in New World Ficus in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala

Palefsky, Gina, University of California, Merced
Building a Biogeochemical Baseline for the Khao Wong Prachan Valley, Central Thailand: Contextualizing Mobility, Migration, and Social Inequality During the Iron Age (c. 600 BC– AD 500)

Patton, Colleen, University of Arizona
Investigating the Impact of Language Ideologies on an Endangered Language of Scotland: Language Variation and Use in Scottish Gaelic

Perret, Daniel, Brown University
Assessing Climate-Driven Extinction Risk by Measuring Population Performance of North American Pines

Pinilla Buitrago, Gonzalo Enrique, City University of New York
Predicting Communities of Small Mammals on Mexican Cloud Forest Islands: The Role of Connectivity Based on Environments of the Past

Porten, John, University of California, San Diego
Civil Society, Civil War: The Use and Abuse of Civilian Networks in Conflict Zones in Nepal, 1996–2006

Postemski, Megan, University of Pennsylvania
Cultivating Communities: An Archaeology of Agrarian Landscapes and Life on the Eastern Frontier, 1760–1820, Maine

Povilonis de Vilchez, Natalie, New York University
Beyond the Monolith: Documenting Ideologically Conditioned Variation for Chanka Quechua Language Maintenance in Present-Day Peru

Ravary, Riley, University of Florida
Governance in Transboundary Protected Areas: Analyzing Community Experiences at Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda

Reid, David, University of Illinois at Chicago
Exploration of Desert Roads and Prehistoric Waystations: Mapping Wari State Expansion in the Majes-Ocoña Valleys, Southern Peru (AD 600–1000)

Roberts, May B., University of California, Santa Cruz
Evolutionary Potential for Adaptation Among Coral Reef Fish Species in the Philippines

Ronkos, Danielle, City University of New York
Tone Features and Contact Effects in Sikles Gurung in Nepal

Savagian, Amanda, Princeton University
Coordinated Vocalizations and Decision-Making in a Cooperatively Nesting Neotropical Bird in Panama

Scheckel, Kelsey, University of California, Berkeley
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? The Chemical Ecology and Deceptive Strategies of the Slave-Making Ant, Formica aserva, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California

Sevastakis, Ekaterina Eleanor, University of Virginia
Social Differentiation in Early and Middle Minoan Crete: A Zooarchaeological Approach to Regional and Temporal Variation

Sitek, Matthew J., University of California, San Diego
Community Networks at the Edge of Ancient Andean States: A View From the Tiwanaku Frontier, Locumba, Peru (ca. AD 500–1100)

Steigerwald, Emma, University of California, Berkeley
Glaciers Retreat, Frogs Advance: High-Elevation Colonization and Restored Transmontane Movement in the Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru

Stillman, Andrew, University of Connecticut
An Empirical Test of Two Hypotheses Explaining Patch-Based Population Dynamics in a Post-Fire Specialist of the Sierra-Cascade Mountains

Tardio, Katie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Roman Conquest and Changes in Animal Economy in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula From the Fourth Century BCE to the Third Century CE

Thompson, Katharine E., Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Lemurs in the Garbage: A Twelve-Month Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Wildlife Hunting and Consumption Outside Kirindy Mitea National Park, Madagascar

Triozzi, Nicholas, Pennsylvania State University
The Chronology and Construction of Prehistoric Hillforts in Donje Polje on the Dalmatian Coast, Croatia

Turbek, Sheela, University of Colorado, Boulder
Explaining Mismatches Between Genetic and Phenotypic Divergence Among Southern Capuchino Seedeaters in Argentina

Weinberg, Camille, University of Texas at Austin
Negotiating Subsistence in Response to Agriculture and Landscape Change in the Late Paracas Period, Peru

Wenzell, Katherine, Northwestern University
Range-Wide Variation in Floral Traits and Local Pollinators in Two Closely Related Groups of Castilleja (Paintbrushes) in Central and Southwestern United States

White, John R., Tulane University
Supernatural Gendering and Amazonian Kichwa Theories of Ecuadorian Crop Diversity

Williamson, Jessie L., University of New Mexico
Reduced Plasticity as a Predictable Component of Adaptation in Birds in Coastal and Mountain Regions of Chile and Peru

Xiong, Tianzhu, Harvard University
Testing the Divergence-With-Gene-Flow Model in a Spatially Explicit Setting on Swallowtail Butterflies (Papilionidae) From the Hengduan Mountains in Southwest China

Yuan, Michael L., University of California, Berkeley
Congruence of Genetic, Morphological, and Cellular Convergence in Lesser Antillean Anoles

2016-2017

Abondano, Laura A., University of Texas at Austin

Mating Strategies of Female Woolly Monkeys in Amazonian Ecuador

Ahmed, Saleh, University of Arizona

Climate Services in Improving Adaptation Decisions: Managing Climate Stresses in Coastal Bangladesh

Anderman, Nicholas P., University of California, Berkeley

Globalization at Sea: Exploring Temporality Among Industrial Maritime Laborers Sailing From Southeast Asia to Canada

Arora, Malay Firoz Das, Brown University

Liminal Sovereignty: The Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Jordan and Lebanon

Barragan, Jose, University of Texas at San Antonio

A Fortification on the Margin: A Study of Lowland and Highland Interaction in Bolivia

Cohen, Chris, East Carolina University

Expedition to Collect Rare Australian Assassin Flies for Phylogenomic Studies

Comerford, Mattheau Steven, Rice University

The Repeatability of Evolutionary Processes: Parallel Soapberry Bug Divergence Along Latitudinal and Longitudinal Gradients in Florida and Texas

Dalton, Jordan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Economic Reorganization of the Chincha Valley, Peru, After the Inca Arrived in AD 1470

Dorsey, Achsah Foster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Iron, Infection, and Malnutrition in Lima, Peru

Eisen, Katherine, Cornell University

Are Differences in Floral Phenotypes Associated With Differences in Pollinator Visitation? A Test of Character Displacement in Clarkia (Onagraceae) in Kern County, California

Finkel, Benjamin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Feeding Strategies of Old Ugandan Chimpanzees

Fox, Michael D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Planktonic Resources From an Atoll Lagoon Enhance Recovery From Coral Bleaching on Palmyra Atoll in the Remote Central Pacific

Frank, Andrew, University of Connecticut

A Tale of Two Morphs: Testing the Adaptive Nature of Bright Juvenile Tail Coloration and Its Impact on Reproductive Isolation in Californian Skinks (Plestiodon)

Freeze, Katherine E., Brown University

Microtiming in the Religious Music of Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Gamba, Diana L., University of Missouri, St. Louis

Does Reproductive Asynchrony Promote Population Genetic Differentiation in Flowering Plants of the Ecuadorian Andes?

Gerson, Jacqueline, Duke University

Quicksilver in the Waters: Tracing Mercury Contamination From Artisanal Gold Mining From Its Source Through the Environment in Madre de Dios, Peru

Godwin, Braden L., University of Wyoming

Estimating Population Structure of Hummingbirds in Fragmented and Threatened Habitats in the Rocky Mountains

Gore, Angela K., Texas A&M University

A Geochemical and Behavioral Approach to Raw Material Procurement and Selection in the Nenana Valley, Alaska

Herbert, Charlotte Elizabeth, University of California, Davis

Uncovering Nearctic Assassin Fly (Diptera: Asilidae) Diversity and Evolution Through Prey Specificity and Venom Composition in the Western United States and Belize

Hilton, Amanda J., University of Arizona

Selling or Saving Cultural Heritage? A Case Study of Sicilian Protected Geographic Indication Olive Oil

Hixon, Sean W., Pennsylvania State University

Aridification, Human Colonization, and Species Turnover in Southwestern Madagascar During the Last Five Thousand Years

Hodgskiss, Malcolm Stewart William, Stanford University

Paleoproductivity and the Carbon Cycle, Two Billion Years Ago: Insights Into a Transitionary Earth From the Belcher Islands, Canada

Jirinec, Vitek, Louisiana State University

Does Microclimate Change Explain Recent Declines of Terrestrial Insectivores in the Brazilian Amazon?

Kashi, Natalie N., University of New Hampshire

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Controls on Methane Emissions Along a Permafrost Thaw Gradient, Abisko, Sweden

King-Bailey, Gillian K., Tulane University

Socioecological Correlates of Androgens and Glucocorticiods in Female White-Faced Capuchins in Costa Rica

Kuhn, Arianna L., American Museum of Natural History

The Role of Historical Climate Change in Speciation for Northern Madagascar's Endemic Snake Fauna

Kurz, David J., University of California, Berkeley

Loss of Borneo's Great Nomad? Movement Ecology of the Threatened Bearded Pig in Fragmented Forest-Oil Palm Mosaics

Lamperty, Justine Therese, Rice University

Investigating How Altered Frugivore Assemblages Affect Plant-Frugivore Networks Across a Defaunation Gradient in the Peruvian Amazon

Lash, Chloe, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Microbes in Myrmecochory: Investigating the Microbial Communities of Virginia Ant Nests and Seed Coats

Lin, Dana, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley

The Biogeographic Pattern of Host-Gut Microbiome Association in Two Recently Diverged Vole Lineages (Microtus californicus), Santa Barbara County, California

Lindsey, Kate L., Stanford University

The First Description of Ende, an Undocumented Language in Papua New Guinea

Lynn, Joshua Scott, University of New Mexico

King of the Hill? Predicting the Population Consequences of Climate Change-Altered Species Interactions in Colorado

Negash, Enquye W., George Washington University

Modeling Vegetation Structure in Modern Ethiopian Ecosystems: Implications for Hominin Landscape Dynamics

Osborne, Teresa Rose, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Testing the Importance of Phylogenetic History and Microhabitat Characteristics on Body Size Evolution in Diplommatinid Land Snails of Belau, Republic of Palau

Perez-Angel, Lina C., University of Colorado, Boulder

Pliocene Paleoclimate of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: An Analog for a Future Warm World

Schurtz, Marshall Wheeler, University of Pennsylvania

Sidekan Archaeological Project: Settlement Dynamics in the Intermontane Sidekan Valley System of Iraqi Kurdistan

Smith, Jeffrey, Stanford University

Effects of Human Land Use in Costa Rica on Arthropod Biodiversity: Implications for Food Webs and Ecosystems

Thomas, Eric Harrison, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Working the Frontier: Development and the Pursuit of Multiple Livelihoods in Chilean Patagonia

Topash-Caldwell, Blaire Kristine, University of New Mexico

Great Lakes Environmental Regime Shifts Since the Nineteenth Century: Mapping Contemporary Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Ecological Protection From Natural Resource Extraction

Veyrie, Thierry, Indiana University, Bloomington

Documenting Northern Paiute Oral Traditions in McDermitt, Nevada

Vincent, Kim E., University of Colorado, Boulder

How Do Microbial Communities Differ in Subalpine and Alpine Lakes? Exploring Elevational Patterns of Bacteria and Fungi in Colorado and Southern Wyoming Lakes That Span Treeline

Wilson, Paige, University of Washington

Environmental Change and Plant Response Across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in the Hell Creek Area of Northwestern Montana

2015–2016

Akcali, Christopher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of Precise Versus Imprecise Coral Snake Mimicry, Costa Rica

Antoniou, Anna S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Making Use of Mollusks: Prehistoric Marine-Resource Exploitation in Willapa Bay, Washington

Bitter, Mark C., University of Chicago

Detecting the Role of Local Community Interactions in Mediating Global Ocean Change in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

Carrasco, Farah M., University of Florida

Land Use and Edge Effects on Bat Assemblies in a Forest-Dominated Landscape in the Southeastern Peruvian Amazon

Charboneau, Joseph L. M., University of Arizona

Selenium Hyperaccumulation in a Rapid Radiation of Legumes in Western North America

Cheek, Christopher Allen, Purdue University

Quantifying Interactions Between Invasive Species Across Ecosystem Boundaries in a Desert River, New Mexico

Chen, Christine Yifeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reconstructing Late Quaternary Precipitation Changes From Ancient High-Altitude Lakes in the Central Andes

Cowles, Sarah A., University of Miami

Understanding Speciation in the Face of Gene Flow in the Kolombangara White-Eye Birds of the Solomon Islands

Dudney, Joan Celeste, University of California, Berkeley

Will Climate Warming Increase Pathogen Threats to California's Sierra Nevada White Pines?

Egan, Josh, University of Minnesota

Chinese Clupeiform Fishes and Ecological Niche Evolution and the Origins of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

Friedman, Daniel Ari, Stanford University

Neurophysiology of Collective Behavior in an Arizona Red Harvester Ant

Guevara, Juan E., University of California, Berkeley

Geological and Climatic Control of Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Turnover Along a Longitudinal Gradient in Brazilian Amazonian Terra Firme Tree Communities

Hanna, Jonathan A., Pennsylvania State University

Ancient Human Ecology and Prehistoric Colonization in Grenada, West Indies

Henriquez, Susana, University of Arizona

Implications of Kinematic Evolution of the Central Andes in Northwestern Argentina on Mountain-Building Processes

Kate, Emily J., Pennsylvania State University

Migration to Cerro Magoni During the Epiclassic Period (AD 550–900) of Central Mexico

Lesneski, Kathryn, Boston University

Characteristics of Resilience in Acropora cervicornis (Staghorn Coral) in the Face of Rising Ocean Temperatures as Studied Over a One-Year Period in Turneffe Atoll, Belize

MacNeill, Keeley L., Cornell University

Arsenic Controls on Stream Ecosystem Functioning in the Ecuadorian Andes

Marshall, Madeline S., University of Chicago

Variation in Fossil Preservation and Discontinuous Sedimentation in Nutrient-Enriched Systems: A Paleoenvironmental Reassessment of the Permian Phosphoria Formation in Idaho and Montana

Moore, Jennifer, University of Florida

Quantifying Richness and Distribution of the Nocturnal Mammalian Community of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda

Munro, Kimberly E., Louisiana State University

The Role of Ritual Religious Centers in Shaping Social Network Interaction: A Settlement Pattern Study of Prehistoric Sites in the Caceres District, Upper Nepena River Valley, Peru

Mychajliw, Alexis M., Stanford University

Investigating Mechanisms of Ecological Change Across the Holocene: Extinctions, Invasions, and Turnover in a Dominican Mammal Community

O'Brien, Colleen Alena, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Documentation of Camsa, a Language Isolate of Colombia

Oliverio, Angela M., University of Colorado at Boulder

Investigating the Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotic Communities in Geothermal Hot Springs Across the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

Olson, Elizabeth Joy, Northern Illinois University

Eastern Pacific ENSO Reconstructions Over the Past Ten Thousand Years Using Tree-Ring Isotopes (Prosopis sp.) From the Atacama Desert, Chile

Petipas, Renee, Cornell University

Microbe-Mediated Local Adaptation to Limestone Barrens in Jefferson County, New York

Pierre, Suzanne, Cornell University

Understanding the Global Change Drivers of Nitrogen Cycling Across Scales and Forest Types in the White Mountains of New Hampshire

Pierson, Todd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Using Genome-Scale Data to Disentangle the Complex Evolutionary History of Two-Lined Salamanders in Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama

Shankar, Anusha, Stony Brook University, State University of New York

Field Physiology, a Key Component in Studying Species Distributions of Hummingbirds in the Ecuadorian Andes

Shepack, Alexander, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Rebounding Amphibian Populations in the Neotropics in Spite of Continued Pathogen Presence

Titus-McQuillan, James E., University of Texas at Arlington

Hybrid Zone Analysis of the Bynoe's Gecko (Heteronotia binoei) in the Monsoonal Tropics of Australia

Travers, Scott, University of Kansas

Evolutionary Community Assembly and Diversification of Melanesian Island Frogs

Tumulty, James, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

The Mechanisms and Evolution of Social Recognition in Rocket Frogs in Guyana

Turner, Michelle I., Binghamton University, State University of New York

Archaeological Testing and Interpretation of the Late Bonito Phase (ca. 1100 CE) Aztec North Great House at Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico

Ware, Ian M., University of Tennessee

Using Relict Tree Populations in the Rocky Mountains as Natural Evolutionary Laboratories to Understand the Potential for Adaptation and Persistence in the Face of Modern Climate Change

Whalen, Christopher Daniel, Yale University

The First Jawed Vertebrates: Analysis of Silurian Fossiliferous Concretions in the Cunningham Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada

2014–2015

Agee, Elizabeth A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Hydraulic Resilience of the Amazon Rainforest Stand Under Changing Climate, Brazil

Bergey, Christina, New York University

Population Genomics of Tsetse Flies (Glossina sp.), the Vector of Sleeping Sickness, in Zambia

Bond, Matthew, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Intraspecific Medicinal Plant Selection in North Malaita, Solomon Islands

Cepero, Laurel C., University of Denver

Effects of Fire-Generated Disturbance on Multi-Trophic Interactions in Colorado and Montana

Chuang, Angela, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Invasion of the Colonial Spiders: Comparisons of Behavioral Phenotypic Diversity and Composition in Native South African and Introduced American Populations

Comstock, Aaron, Ohio State University

Becoming Villagers: A Late Woodland/Fort Ancient Case Study in Southwest Ohio

Contreras, Dori L., University of California, Berkeley

Investigating the Functional Evolution of Tropical Forests: Analysis of the Late Cretaceous Jose Creek Flora, McRae Formation, New Mexico

Correa-Garhwal, Sandra M., University of California, Riverside

Reinvasion of Aquatic Habitats: Silk Adaptations of New Zealand Spiders to Life Under Seawater

Coverdale, Tyler C., Princeton University

Rapidly Induced Defenses: Plant Responses to Ungulate Grazing in a Kenyan Savanna

Cramb, Justin E., University of Georgia

Prehistoric (ca. 1000BP to ca. 200BP) Resource Management and the Long-Term Population Stability of a Marginal Atoll System in the Northern Cook Islands of Central Polynesia

Crifo, Camilla, University of Washington

Herbaceousness Versus Arborescence: Inferring the Growth Habit and Ecology of Early Flowering Plants in Costa Rica Using Leaf Morphological and Physiological Traits

Diaz-Martin, Zoe, Tulane University

Consequences of Non-Random Seed Dispersal for Seedling Establishment in a Biodiversity Hotspot in Northwestern Ecuador

Dibble, Connor D., University of California, Davis

Biophysical Processes Regulating Intertidal Community Structure Along the Upwelling California Coast

Giese, Alexandra L., Dartmouth College

Current and Future Meltwater Contributions from Debris-Covered Glaciers in the Khumbu Himalaya, Nepal

Gildner, Theresa, University of Oregon

Associations Between Testosterone Level, Ecological Variation, and Intestinal Parasite Load in an Indigenous Ecuadorian Population

Hammer, Tobin, University of Colorado at Boulder

Charting Undescribed Microbial Diversity in the Guts of Neotropical Caterpillars in Costa Rica

Henry, Edward R., Washington University in St. Louis

Building a Chronology of Adena Earthen Enclosures in Kentucky

Johnson, Melissa A., Claremont Graduate University

Pacific Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) in Fiji and Samoa as a Model of Species Radiation Decoupled From Ecological Diversification

Keen, Eric M., University of California, San Diego

Foraging Strategy, Habitat Use and Conservation of Large Inland Whales in the Kitimat Fjord System, British Columbia

Kielsmeier-Cook, Joshua, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Diverse Ascomycete Wood-Decay Fungi of Yasuni­ National Park, Ecuador, a Threatened Biodiversity Hotspot

Lanoe, François, University of Arizona

Exploring the Settlement of Eastern Beringia During the Late Pleistocene at the Sites of Keystone Dune and Cook, Central Alaska

Lee, Katharine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Physical Activity Levels in Rural Polish Women of Reproductive Age

Marting, Peter, Arizona State University

Causes of Collective Personality in Azteca Ants and Its Effect on Their Cecropia Tree Hosts in the Panamanian Rainforest

Montano Centellas, Flavia A., University of Florida

Disentangling Forces That Drive Avian Community Assembly Along Elevational Gradients in the Tropical Andes of Bolivia

Orzechowski, Emily, University of California, Berkeley

Reconstructing the Paleoclimate of Coastal Marine Environments During the Last Interglacial Period (~120,000 Years Ago) in California

Paez-Vacas, Monica I., Colorado State University

Behavioral Isolation as a Mechanism of Speciation in a Poison Frog in the Ecuadorian Andes

Rubel, Meagan, University of Pennsylvania

Gut Microbiomes of Cameroon Hunter-Gatherers: Roles of Diet and Helminths

Sandor, Manette, University of Connecticut

Uncovering Climate Change Impacts on Frugivory and Seed Dispersal Networks in a Biodiversity Hotspot, Sierra Nevada, California

Solari, Katherine A., Stanford University

Hypoxia-Induced Plasticity in Gene Regulation: An Experimental Study on the Asian Pika, Ochotona dauurica, at the Minnesota Zoo

Steele, Marla L., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Migration and Habitat Ecology of Pallas's Fish Eagle in Mongolia

Suh, Yeon Jee, University of Cincinnati

Evaluating the Role of Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on Early Cenozoic Plant Carbon Isotope Fractionation in Colorado and Wyoming

Taylor, David S., Oregon State University

Assessing the Correspondence Between the Past and Present Isotopic Niche Breadth of U.S. Great Basin Small Mammals Within the Context of the Local Resource Base

Titus, Benjamin M., Ohio State University

Linking Patterns of Cryptic Genetic Diversity With Ecosystem Function in Ecologically Important Cleaner Shrimps on Caribbean Coral Reefs

Welklin, Joseph, Cornell University

The Influence of Pre-Breeding Social Environment on Androgens, Sexual Trait Expression, and Reproductive Success in the Austrialian Red-Backed Fairy-Wren

Whitaker, James A., Tulane University

Continuity and Perdurance in the History of Makushi Society, Guyana, 1814–Present

2013–2014

Card, Daren, University of Texas at Arlington

Population Structure and Species Evolution of Burmese Pythons in Southeast Asia

Chapman, James, University of Arizona

Impact of the Growth of the Pamir Mountains on the Aridification and Faunal Evolution of Central Asia in the Paleogene

Chavez Balderas, Ximena, Tulane University

Human and Faunal Sacrifice at the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan, 1469–1521

Clark, Julia, University of Pittsburgh

Archaeological Investigations of Early Pastoral Adaptations in Northern Mongolia: National Identity Formation and Land Use Patterns

Concepcion, Camille, West Virginia University

Movement Ecology of Philippine Birds of Prey

Delia, Jesse, Boston University

Social Dynamics of Female Choice, Communal Nests, and Embryo Strategies in a Panamanian Glassfrog with Male Care

Drummond, Chloe, University of Wisconsin, Madison

An Integrative Approach to the Biogeography of Western North America-Great Lakes Disjuncts

Flood, Liza, University of Virginia

Negotiating Class Categories Through Expressive Culture: Amateur Country Music Performance in Asheville, North Carolina, and East Tennessee

Forrester, Nicole, University of Pittsburgh

Uncovering the Mechanisms That Influence the Success of Polyploid Plants in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia

Freimuth, Erika, University of Cincinnati

Quantifying Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Wisconsin Leaf Wax Lipids for Interpretation of the Quaternary Sedimentary Record

Heffter, Eric, University of Arizona

Archaeological Dowsing: Locating Upper Paleolithic Open-Air Sites in the Morava Valley of Central and Southern Serbia Using Soil and Landform Data

Johannesdottir, Frida, Cornell University

Altitudinal Analysis of the Thermal Tolerance in the American Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in Alaska

Johnson, Jena, California Institute of Technology

Manganese and the Oxygenation of the Earth, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Johnson, McKenzie, Duke University

Natural Resources and Peacebuilding in Conflict-Affected Contexts, Sierra Leone

Koll, Rebecca, University of Florida

Paleoecologic Reconstruction of Early and Middle Permian Gigantopterid Seed Plants in Western Pangea, New Mexico, and Texas

Leung, Jacqueline, Princeton University

The Impact of Anthelmintic Treatment on the Incidence of Diarrheal Disease in Schoolchildren in Southern Vietnam

Lin, Sam, University of Pennsylvania

Mobility and Behavioral Modernity in the Middle Stone Age of Western Cape, South Africa

Morton, Dana, Missouri State University

The Ecology of Parasites in Kelp Forests: Biodiversity and Influence on Food Web Structure, Santa Barbara Channel, California

Muscente, Anthony, Virginia Tech

Investigating the Preservation of Soft-Bodied Fossil Assemblages in Guizhou Province, China for Insights Into the Cambrian Explosion

Phillips, Carly, University of Georgia

Do Plant-Soil Feedbacks Influence Carbon Storage in Arctic Alaska?

Phuong, Mark, University of California, Los Angeles

Evolvability and Diversification: Testing Evolutionary Predictions in Indonesian Cone Snails

Riggio, Jason, University of California, Davis

Large Mammal Corridors in Savannah Africa

Rosen, Gail, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Value of Forest Fragments for Mitigating Pathogens in Surface Water in Rural Uganda

Sabbi, Kristin, University of New Mexico

Development of Sex Differences in Aggressive Behaviors in the Kayawara Community of Chimpanzees at Kibale National Park, Uganda

Smith, Stephanie, University of Washington

Evidence from Northeastern Montana of Mammalian Faunal Recovery Following the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction

Socolar, Samuel, Princeton University

Avian Diversity Loss in the Hyper-Diverse Forest Mosaic of Peruvian Amazonia

Tong, Eric, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Multispecies Connectivity of Coral Reefs in the Society Islands, French Polynesia

Wigmore, Oliver, Ohio State University

Assessing Variability in Pro-Glacial Soil Moisture: Linking Processes and Scale, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

Yardumian, Aram, University of Pennsylvania

Genetic History of Western Georgia: Implications for the Prehistory of the South Caucasus

2012–2013

Barton, Scott A., New York University

Food for the Gods: Sacred Nagô Culinary Religious Culture in Northeastern Brazil

Calede, Jonathan J., University of Washington

Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Oligo-Miocene Cabbage Patch Fauna of Montana (29.5–23.5 Ma)

Deskaj, Sylvia, Michigan State University

Assessing Change and Continuity: Intra- and Inter-Regional Interaction During the Bronze-Iron Age in Northern Albania

DuBay, Shane G., University of Chicago

The Role of Climatic Gradients in Shaping Avian Diversity in the Hengduan Mountains of China

Dyrdahl, Eric R., Pennsylvania State University

Investigating Obsidian Procurement at the Source in Highland Northern Ecuador

Ennis, Katherine K., University of California, Santa Cruz

Seasonal Effects on the Biological Control of a Global Coffee Pest in Mexico

Faherty, Sheena L., Duke University

Unlocking the Genetic Code of Hibernation: An Investigation of Free-Ranging Dwarf Lemurs in the High-Altitude Rainforests of Central-Eastern Madagascar

Girard, Madeline B., University of California, Berkeley

Evolution of Complex Communication in Australian Peacock Spiders: Understanding How the Ecological and Social Environments Drive Diversity

Gottscho, Andrew D., San Diego State University

Comparative Phylogeography of Lizards (Phrynosomatidae) of Baja California and Islands in the Sea of Cortez

Griffin, Eric A., University of Pittsburgh

Diversity and Impact of Foliar Bacteria on Arboreal Species Within a Tropical Forest Understory, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Guzman, Crystal, University of Illinois at Chicago

Tree Seedling Regeneration in a Degraded Tropical Landscape: Barriers to Tropical Pasture Restoration in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

Katin, Nicole, Tulane University

Ethnobotany of Rural Populations in the Atlantic Coastal Forest Reserves of Southeastern Brazil

Koch, Rachel A., Purdue University

Uncovering the Evolutionary Significance of a Novel Fungal-Insect Mutualism in the Tropical Rainforests of Guyana

LeCroy, Kathryn A., University of Pittsburgh

Assessing the Uncoupling of Pollination by Climate Change in the Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems of California

Louthan, Allison, University of Wyoming

Interacting Effects of Aridity, Overstory Plants, and Herbivores on Understory Plant Distribution Patterns in Kenya

Mallott, Elizabeth K., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Influence of Insect Availability on Diet and Social Network Dynamics in White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus) in Costa Rica

Ryan, Mason J., University of New Mexico

In Search of Missing Frog Species in Costa Rica: Rediscovering Critically Endangered Species in a Time of Extinction

Seeholzer, Glenn F., Louisiana State University

Avian Biogeography of Andean Dry Forests, the Rio Cotacajes Valley, Bolivia

Smit, Douglas K., University of Illinois at Chicago

The Costs of Colonialism: Markets, Mining, and Labor in the Colonial Andes

Tessin, Allyson C., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Constraining the Relationship Between Climate, Sea Level, and Organic Carbon Burial During Oceanic Anoxic Event III in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway in the United States and Southern Canada

Tilker, Andrew, University of Texas at Austin

Using Leech-based Surveys to Study Ungulate Occupancy in the Central Annamite Mountains of Vietnam

Tucci, Serena, University of Ferrara/University of California, Santa Cruz

The Lost World of Flores: Genetic Interrogation of the Indonesian Pygmies Genomes in Search of Signatures of Archaic Admixture

Weglarz, Kathryn M., Utah State University

Collection of Adelgid and Plant Samples in the United States and Canada to Catalyze Research in Plant-Symbiont Interactions

Wolfhagen, Jesse L., Stony Brook University, State University of New York

Investigating Neolithic Herding Practices Through Strontium Stable Isotopic Characterization of the Southwestern Cypriot Landscape

Wood, Stephen, Columbia University

Impact of the African Green Revolution on Soil Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning: A Case Study in the Microbial Mechanisms of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in Western Kenya

 

2011-2012

Barrow, Lisa N., Florida State University

The Influence of Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change and Contemporary Landscape Features on the Genetic Structure of Co-Distributed Frogs in the Southeastern United States

Beaulieu, Wesley T., Indiana University, Bloomington

Hereditary Fungal Symbiosis in the Convolvulaceae: Population Variation in Ergot Alkaloids and Resistance to Bruchid Beetle Parasitism in the Central United States

Bridges, Nora C., University of Pittsburgh

Kichwa Hybrid Remedies in the Upper Amazon of Ecuador

Chapin, Kenneth J., University of California, Los Angeles

How Do Cave Habitats Cause Whip Spiders of Puerto Rican Rainforests to Become Social?

Dahlberg, Britt, University of Pennsylvania

The Politics of Knowledge Production in Environmental Risk Research in the Contemporary United States

Donop, Mark C., University of Florida,

New Light on Dark Earth: 5000 Years of Indigenous Agriculture at Hitia, Guyana

Farallo, Vincent R., Ohio University

The Role of Micro-Habitat in Shaping the Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders of the Eastern United States

Grant, Christopher M., University of Chicago

Economies in Ruins? Buccaneers and Smuggling: Archaeological Investigations on Île de la Tortue (Tortuga Island), Haiti, ca.1600–1750

Gupta-Agarwal, Sonali, University of California, Los Angeles

Late Roman Period (Karanis) and Modern Potters of Nazla in Fayum and Ballas in Upper Egypt

Gutierrez, Leticia A., University of Missouri, St. Louis,

The Effects of a Complex Trophic Structure of Mammalian Host Species on the Ecology of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Haas, William R., University of Arizona

Late Archaic Period Settlement Hierarchy in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru

Harvey, Michael, Louisiana State University

Avian Biogeography of an Amazonian Headwater, the Rio Vaupés

Holt, Haley B., Tulane University

Archaeological Investigations of a Classic-Period Zapotec Enclave in Hidalgo, Mexico

Hyne, Amy L., University of Texas at Austin

Cultural Constructions of Mental Illness With Respect to Religious Practices: A Study of Unmada in North India

Janzen, Anneke, University of California, Santa Cruz

Mobility and Herd Management Strategies of Early Pastoralists in the Central Rift Valley and Athi Plains, Kenya, 3000–1200 BP

Kemp, Melissa E., Stanford University

Extinction and Diversification Dynamics in Insular Lizard Communities in the French West Indies

Levin, Erik, University of Chicago

Grammaticized Epistemology and Productions of Knowledge in Amawaka Shamanic Discourses, San Juan de Inuya, Peru

Miller, Jennifer R., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Predicting the Kill: Ecological Drivers of Tiger and Leopard Livestock Depredation in Kanha Tiger Reserve, India

Quinn, Colin P., University of Michigan

Metal Production and the Origins of Social Inequality in Bronze Age Transylvania

Ritterbush, Kathleen A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Sea Floors Ruled by Sponges: Examining Ecology and Geochemistry in Peru’s Record of Biotic Recovery From the Triassic/Jurassic Mass Extinction

Shortlidge, Erin E., Portland State University

Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influencing Sexual Reproduction and Genetic Diversity in a Model Geothermal Moss System Living Near the Limits of Thermal Plant Life, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Tsang, Susan M., City College of New York, City University of New York

Phylogeography of Pteropus Flying Foxes in Indonesia

Tune, Jesse W., Texas A&M University

Archaeological Excavations at the Coats-Hines Site, Williamson County, Tennessee

Vieira Neto, Ernane Henrique M., University of Florida

Are Roads Conduits for the Expansion of Native Keystone and Agricultural Pest Species in the Brazilian Cerrado?

Wagner, Maggie R., Duke University

Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivores in the Northern Rocky Mountains

2010-2011

Andrews, Margaret M., University of Pennsylvania

Down in the Valley: A Topographical Study of the Subura in Rome from Caesar to Charlemagne

Armitage, David, University of California, Berkeley

Functional Aspects of Food Web Assembly in Pitcher Plant Inquiline Communities in Northern California and Southern Oregon

Avila Segura, Laura M., University of Florida

Stingless Bee-Native Flowering Plants Interaction Network in Southern Costa Rica: The Effect of Coffee Blooming

Beer, Thomas, Institute for Biology, University Halle

Exploring the Kryptic Life Cycle and the Community of Snow Algae from Lassen Volcanic Park, California

Brandão, Ana Paula, University of Texas at Austin

A Reference Grammar of Paresi-Haliti (Arawak), Mato Grosso, Brazil

Buffen, Aron M., Brown University

Establishing a New High-Elevation Ice Core Record of Climate Change From the Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in a Peruvian Glacier

Forrestel, Elisabeth J., Yale University

Merging Functional Ecology and Comparative Phylogenetics to Predict Ecosystem and Community-Level Responses to Differential Biogeographic Histories in Grasslands of Australia, South Africa, and North America

Goodwin, Sarah E., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Comparative Evaluation and Mate Attraction in Chipping Sparrows of the Northeastern United States

Hesed, Kyle M., University of Maryland

Dispersal and Social Relationships in the Maryland Red-Backed Salamander

Hickman, Kristin G., University of Chicago

Losing Nichane, Losing Darija? Transformations and Uncertain Futures of Written Colloquial Arabic, Casablanca, Morocco

Kennedy, Jason R., Binghamton University

The Organization of Labor at Prehistoric Yenice Yani 1 and Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey: Use-Wear Analysis of Terminal Ubaid Ceramics

Kurnick, Sarah, University of Pennsylvania

Political Authority Among the Ancient Maya: A Case Study from Callar Creek, Belize

Madden, Anne A., Tufts University

Is It Who You Are or Where You Live That Matters? Location and Host Species Effects on Microbial Biogeography of Communities Associated With a Native and Invasive Paper Wasp in Massachusetts

Mortensen, Jennifer, Tufts University

The Role of Social Behavior in Buffering Populations From Extinction: The Persistence of an Endangered, Cooperatively Breeding Caribbean Passerine

Myers, Edward A., City University of New York

Linking Ecological Opportunity to Niche Evolution in an Adaptive Radiation, Central Panama

Nah, Hyejin, New York University

Linguistic Sovereignty of a Virtual Nation: Urban Mapuche in Twenty-First Century Santiago, Chile

Phelps, Kendra, Texas Tech University

Cave Bats in Crisis: Impact of Anthropogenic Disturbances on Cave-Dependent Bats in the Philippines

Porter, Amy M., University of California, Davis

Cooperation and Conflict in Two Socially Monogamous Primates: Red Titi Monkeys (Callicebus discolor) and Equatorial Saki Monkeys (Pithecia aequatorialis) in Eastern Ecuador

Powell, Luke L., Louisiana State University

Using Home Range Estimates and Thirty Years of Mist-Net Captures to Determine the Effect of Land Use History on Dispersal of Understory Birds Near Manaus, Brazil

Putsavage, Kathryn J., University of Colorado, Boulder

The Black Mountain Archaeological Project: An Investigation of the Black Mountain Phase (AD 1130 to 1250) in the Lower Mimbres Valley of Southern New Mexico

Rudolph, Kathleen, University of Florida

Enslaved, Ejected, or Cannibalized: The Spoils of War in African Acacia Ants

Schaming, Taza, Cornell University

The Impact of Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) Mortality on Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) Demography and Habitat Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Sorger, Daniela M., North Carolina State University

Phenotypic Dvergence Within Bornean Ant Species: Responses to Altitude and Climate

Tenggardjaja, Kimberly, University of California, Santa Cruz

A Genetic Comparison of Endemic and Non-Endemic Damselfishes in the Hawaiian Archipelago

Trentin, Summer R., University of Iowa

Pompeian Peristyles: Space, Function, and Meaning

Venti, Alyson M., University of Miami

Seasonal and Diurnal Analysis of Present-Day Coral Growth Rates Across the Natural pH Gradient Found on the Bermuda Reef Platform

Wiewel, Adam, University of Arkansas

Geophysical Investigations of the Nineteenth-Century Mandan-Arikara Village at the Fort Clark State Historic Site, North Dakota

Womack, Ann M., University of Oregon

Biodiversity in the Amazonian Atmosphere: Linking Atmospheric Conditions With Active Airborne Microbial Diversity

 

2009-2010

Anderson, Shelby L., University of Washington

Late Prehistoric Social Change in Northwest Alaska: A Study of Ceramic Procurement, Production, and Distribution in the Arctic

Bechtoldt, Catherine L., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Improving Predictions of Bird Species Distributions in the Central Amazonian Lowlands: Implications for Conservation Planning and Evolutionary Ecology

Bell, Rayna C., Cornell University

Evaluating the Pleistocene Forest Refuge Hypothesis in Hyperolius Tree Frogs of Central Africa

Chen, Ming-Chu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tectonic, Climatic, and Anthropogenic Influences on the Ultra-High Rate of Bedrock Incision in the Ta-An River Gorge, Taiwan

Coyle, Lauren, University of Chicago

Community Rights and the Ambivalence of Authority: Timber, Gold, and the Violent Fashioning of the Artisan in Ghana

Deas, Jr., Joseph B., University of Arizona

Trade-offs Between Reproduction and Survival in an Egg-Stacking Seed Beetle

Del Toro, Israel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Biogeographical Patterns of Ant Communities Along Elevational and Latitudinal Gradients in the Eastern United States

Demos, Terrence, Queens College, City University of New York

Comparative Phylogeography of Small Mammals in Montane Africa: Integrating Climatic History and Genetic Variation

DeVore, Jonathan D., University of Michigan

Cultivating Hopes: Struggles over Land and Land Reform in Southern Bahia, Brazil

Dolan, Jessica M., McGill University

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Cultural Relations with Environment, Land, and Place

Dunn, Stacy M., Tulane University

Artifact Analysis from a Chancay Culture, Late Intermediate Period (1100–1435 AD) Site in the Huaura Valley, Peru

Ericksen, Annika, University of Arizona

Responsible Herding in Mongolia: Changing Strategies and Politics of Managing Winter Risk

Guerra, Monica, University of Texas, Austin

Choosy Female Frogs Create New Species in the Amazon

Gulley, Jason D., University of Florida

Can Flow in Subglacial Conduits be Distinguished from Flow in Distributed Systems? Evaluating Recharge Rate to Conduits as a Control on Proglacial Data, Svalbard, Norway

Halfen, Alan F., University of Kansas

Holocene Megadroughts of the Central Great Plains

Hanna, Cause, University of California, Berkeley

Invasion Dynamics and Management of a Social Predator in Hawaii

Henningsen, Justin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

How Do Signal Size and Performance Capacity Interact to Determine Reproductive Success in Male Green Anole Lizards in South Carolina?

Herrera, Fabiany A., University of Florida

Paleocene and Eocene Neotropical Floras: Understanding the Earliest Rainforests in Northern South America

Hosner, Peter A., University of Kansas

Filling a Critical Knowledge Gap in Andean Biogeography: An Ornithological Expedition to Remote Montane Forests in Ayacucho, Peru

Johnson, Scott A., Tulane University

Late and Terminal Classic Power Shifts in Central Yucatan: The View from Popola

Johnson, Stefan E., Michigan State University

Anishinaabeg Rock Paintings of the Rainy Lake Region in Northwestern Ontario: Place and Meaning on the Rocks

Jones, Michael R., Texas A&M University

Design, Possible Origin, and Economic Context of a Middle Byzantine Merchant Vessel from the Theodosian Harbor of Constantinople

Kessler, Sharon, Arizona State University

Modeling the Origins of Primate Sociality: Kin Recognition in Madagascar Mouse Lemurs

Koltz, Amanda, Duke University

Effects of Climate-Induced Vegetation Changes on Arctic Food Web Dynamics in Northern Alaska

Lanzillotti, Ian T., Ohio State University

Ethno-Nationalism and Interethnic Relations in the North Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, 1858–1991

Legg, Teresa, University of Colorado

The Role of Microbial Communities in Groundwater Arsenic Mobilization, Bangladesh

Lindsey, Emily L., University of California, Berkeley

Causes, Dynamics and Ecological Consequences of Late-Quaternary Extinctions, Tanque Loma, Ecuador

Makino, Kaoru, Boston University

Paleoethnobotanical Research at the Banten Lama Archaeological Complex, Java, Indonesia: Investigation of Food Consumption and Foodways at a Seventeenth-Century Spice Trading Hub

McCracken, Chelsea, Rice University

A Grammar of Pulu Belep [yly], New Caledonia

Moen, Daniel S., Stony Brook University

Evolutionary History and Adaptation of Ecological Performance in Colombian Frogs

Orkin, Joseph D., Washington University, St. Louis

Landscape Genetics of Gibbons and Leaf Monkeys in China

Rademaker, Kurt M., University of Maine

Early Human Exploration of the High Andes, Southern Peru

Roddy, Adam, University of California, Berkeley

Climate-Mediated Impacts of Reproductive Phenology on Resource Cycling by Tropical Trees, Panama

Rodrigues, Michelle A., Ohio State University

Stress and Sociality in a Patrilocal Primate in Costa Rica: Do Female Spider Monkeys Tend-and-Befriend?

Schmidt, Isabel B., University of Hawaii, Manoa

Assessing and Promoting Ecological Sustainability of a Non-timber Forest Product (NTFP) from the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado)

Schonthal, Benjamin, University of Chicago

Regulating Religion: Buddhism, Pluralism and the State in Post-Independence Sri Lanka

Sedio, Brian E., University of Michigan

Do Plant Defenses Influence the Specialization of Insect Herbivores of Co-Occurring, Closely Related Plants in Tropical Forests (Barro Colorado Island, Panama)?

Shackelford, Julie L., University College London

World Heritage in the Old City: How Damascus Negotiates its Past and Present

Shah, Seema, University of California, Los Angeles

Intra-Ethnic Electoral Violence in Divided Societies: The Case of Sri Lanka

Snyder, Sara L., Columbia University

Sovereignty, Christianity, and the Politics of Expression in Eastern Cherokee Language Revitalization

Stahlschmidt, Zachary R., Arizona State University, Tempe

Dynamics of Egg-Brooding Behavior in Free-Ranging Female Water Pythons (Liasis fuscus), Australia

Starkel, William A., Washington State University

Geologic Mapping of the SW Caldera Margin of the McDermitt Caldera Center, Northern Nevada, USA

Taylor, Sarah R., State University of New York, Albany

To Plant or Protect: Land Use, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Tourism

Tsukamoto, Kenichiro, University of Arizona

Retrieving the Ancient History of Intermediate Elites: An Exploration of the Guzmán Hieroglyphic Stairway at El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico

Tyler, Carrie L., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

A Test of the Validity of Repair Scars as Estimators of Predation Intensity, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Worthington, Nancy, Columbia University

Healing Hearts and Training Minds in El Salvador: Pediatric Heart Surgery Missions and Globally Circulating Biotechnologies

Worthington, Steven, New York University

Early Human Origins: A View from the Miocene

2008-2009

Allington, Ginger, Saint Louis University

Grazing Impacts on Soil Properties and Vegetation Recovery in Desertified Rangelands of the American Southwest

Aragon, Carolina C., University of Utah

Documentation and Description of the Akuntsú Language: An Endangered Language in Brazil

Bacon, Christine D., Colorado State University

Species Delimitation and Ecological Niche Modeling of Hawaiian Pritchardia (Palmae: arecaceae)

Becker, Carlos G., Cornell University

Can’t Win for Losing: Disease, Habitat Split, and Amphibian Declines in Panama

Blaimer, Bonnie B., University of California, Davis

Canopy Ant Diversity: Breaching an Unprobed Frontier in Malagasy Forests

Boukili, Vanessa K., University of Connecticut

Using Plant Functional Traits to Understand Patterns of Community Assembly in Naturally Regenerating Costa Rican Rain Forests

Chacaltana, Sofia, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mechanics of Empire and Integration: The Role of Inca Tambos in the Colesuyo Region of Southern Peru

Chenoweth, John M., University of California, Berkeley

Quaker Religious Practice and Slavery: A Case Study from the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

Crothers, Laura, University of Texas at Austin

Assessing Male Contributions to Aposematic Polymorphism in the Strawberry Poison Frog of Bocas del Toro, Panama

Dangremond, Emily M., University of California, Berkeley

Seed Predation of the Rare Mangrove Pelliciera, Punta Galta, Panama

Datoo, Sabrina, University of Chicago

Medicine, Morality, and Muslim Nationalism: Yunani Tibb in Colonial India

Ederer, Shana L., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Estimation of Bryophyte-Cyanobactial Nitrogen Fixation Across a Substrate-Age Gradient, Door County, Wisconsin

Farrell, Michelle L., Georgetown University

Venezuela's Cultural Mission: Redefining Venezuelan National Identities Through Cinema

Gage, JoAnn R., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Real-Time Monitoring of Rock Deformation Underground, Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota

Gittinger, Megan, University of Florida

Relaxation of Plant Defenses in Acacias Following Long-Term Exclusion of Herbivores in a Semi-Arid Savanna, Kenya

Grady, Ben R., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Patterns of Soil Endemism in Eriogonum (Polygonaceae)in the Western United States: Combining Classical and Modern Techniques

Groner, Maya, University of Pittsburgh

Effects of Host Assemblage on the Prevalence and Virulence of a Fungal Amphibian Pathogen (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in the Sierra Nevadas

Grossman, Kathryn M., University of Chicago

Re-centering the Ninevite 5 Economy: Archaeological Investigations at Hamoukar, Syria

Gusick, Amy E., University of California, Santa Barbara

Early Holocene Ecological Adaptations and Variability of Hunter-Gatherers, Northern Channel Islands, California

Hof, David, University of Massachusetts

Reliability and Maintenance of Aggressive Signals in Parulid Warblers in Vermont

Hughes, Cortney L., University of California, Irvine

Mothers at the Center of Moroccan Modernity: Islam, Development, and New Child-bearing and Child-Rearing Practices

Kartzinel, Tyler R., University of Georgia

Can Populations of Canopy-Dependent Plants in Monteverde, Costa Rica, Persist in a World with Less Canopy?

Kerekes, Jennifer, University of California, Berkeley

Climate Change and Nutrient Enrichment Effects on Microbial Communities in a Tropical Moist Lowland Forest, Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama

Kim, Young hwa, University of Chicago

Regulating Intimacy: Changing the Political Geography of AIDS in Modern Thailand

Klehm, Carla E., University of Texas at Austin

Being and Becoming in Botswana: An Archaeological Study of Ceramics, Communities, and Identity in the African Iron Age

Latvis, Maribeth, University of Florida

Tracking Migration, Diversification, and Gene Losses Across North and South America in Parasitic False Foxgloves (Agalinis: Orobanchaceae)

Lopez-Uribe, Margarita M., Cornell University

Gene Flow Patterns in the Orchid Bee Eulaema meriana (Apidae: Euglossini) in Ecuador and Peru

Losin, Neil, University of California, Los Angeles

Interspecific Interference Competition and the Evolution of Agonistic Signals in an Invasive Lizard in the Southern United States

Loyd, Sean J., University of Southern California

Chemostratigraphic Analysis and Correlation of Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian Units of Caborca, Sonora, Mexico

Martinez-Mota, Rodolfo, University of Illinois, Urbana

The Effects of Habitat Disturbance on Pathogen Infection and Levels of Stress in Mexican Black Howler Monkeys, Alouatta pigra

McCrackin, Michelle L., Arizona State University

Denitrification in Norwegian Lake Sediments Across a Gradient of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition

Miller, Darcy S., University of Arizona

Prospecting for Terminal Pleistocene Archaeological Sites in the Central Cumberland River Valley, Tennessee

Moran-Thomas, Amy, Princeton University

Parasites Lost (in Translation): Comparing Medical Worm Diseases in Modern Maya Language and Contact-Period Yucatec Literature

Mueller, Rebecca, University of Oregon

Land-Use Change and Biodiversity in Amazonia: The Fungal Perspective

Oliveira de Lima, Suzi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,

Quantification Processes in Yudja, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Price, Shauna, University of California, Los Angeles

The Geography of Host-Parasite Associations in Brazil: Diversity and Phylogenetic Congruence of Fungal Parasites in the Neotropical Ant Cephalotes atratus

Quedensley, Taylor, University of Texas at Austin

Origin and Evolution of Endemic Montane Taxa in Guatemala

Reynolds, Robert G., University of Tennessee

Testing for Historical Extinction and Recolonization Dynamics in Archipelagic Species Using Modern Genetic Data, Turks and Caicos Islands

Rothfels, Carl, Duke University

The Role of Chromosome Changes and Geography in the Diversification of Ecuadoran High-Elevation Fern Species

Salguero Gomez, Roberto, University of Pennsylvania

The Role of Hydraulic Sectoriality in the Adaptation of Herbaceous Plant Species to Extreme Ecosystems Along the Colorado Plateau

Sanchez, Adriana, Wake Forest University

Species Delimitation in Triplaris Loefl. ex L. in Peru and Its Importance for Understanding Its Mutualism with Ants

Scordato, Elizabeth, University of Chicago

Causes and Consequences of Geographical Variation in Sexually Selected Traits: A Test Case Using an Avian Ring Species in Kyrgyzstan

Veilleux, Carrie C., University of Texas at Austin

Effects of Nocturnal Light Environment on the Evolution of Nocturnal Primate Color Vision, Madagascar

Williams, Steven L., University of Iowa

Cultural Authority and Revitalization in Rocky Boy Chippewa/Cree History

Wright, Mary L., University of California, Berkeley

Monogamy in the Sea: Examining the Effects of Resource Distribution and Demography on the Genetic Mating System of the Socially Monogamous Mantis Shrimp Pullosquilla litoralis in Moorea, French Polynesia

Zhang, Wenyi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Knowledge That Propagates: AIDS, Drugs, Memory, and Science in Southwest China

2007-2008

Adams, Rachel, Stanford University

Diversity of Spruce and Understory Vegetation in Canada

Bachan-Dovrat, Aviv, Stanford University

Environmental Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary in the Central Apennines, Italy

Bai, Yanying, University of California, Riverside

Application of Stable Isotopes to Study the Contribution of Urban Tailwater to West Nile Virus Outbreaks

Barbosa, Flavia Araujo, University of Missouri

Copulatory Courtship and Cryptic Female Choice in Soldier Fly in Panama

Barker, Jessica, Cornell University

Signals of Altruism in Insect Societies in South Africa

Baumgartner, Jill, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Biomass, Indoor Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Health in Rural China

Brandley, Matthew, University of California

Is Gigantism Adaptive in Insular Snake Populations in the Izu Island Archipelago, Japan?

Carey, Rebecca, University of Hawaii

Manoa, Phreatoplinian Volcanism, the Eruption of Askja Volcano, Iceland

Chance, Kerry, University of Chicago

"Living Politics": New Practices and Protests of the Poor in Democratic South Africa

Choo, Hae Yeon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Citizenship at the Margins: Filipina Migrant Women and the Negotiation of National Boundaries in South Korea

Chuang, Teresa, University of California, Berkeley

Toward a Field-Based Understanding of Climate Change-Induced Shifts in Tree Species in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Coslor, Erica, University of Chicago

Art as an Investment: The Financial Geography of the Art Market, England

Cuervo, Andres M., Louisiana State University

Avian Speciation and Differentiation in the Andean Cloud Forests, Colombia, Venezuela

Douglas, Peter, Yale University

A Plant Biomarker Record of Hydrology at the Time of the Classic Maya Collapse from Central American Lakes Sediments

Fox, Naomi, University of Utah

Documentation of Mocho': Speakers and Dialects, Mexico

Goldsmith, Gregory R., University of California, Berkeley

Plant Responses to Altered Cloudiness in a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest, Costa Rica

Gulley, Jason, University of Florida

Direct Investigation of Glacier Caves in the High Arctic, Svalbard, Norway

Hazel, Ashley, University of Michigan

Disease Ecology and Reproductive Health of a Southern African Agro-Pastoral Community, Namibia

Hodkinson, Brendan, Duke University

Bacterial Diversity in the Tropics: A Lichen Case Study, Costa Rica

Hyslop, Gwendolyn, University of Oregon

Classifying the Tasha-Sili Language of Bhutan

Kolbe, Sarah, University of Cincinnati

Regional Morphological Variation in Venerid and Arcid Bivalves in the Southeast Gulf Coastal Plain

Lincoln, Sara, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Archeal Biomaker Profile of the Eastern South Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone

Martin, Cassandra Marie, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Association Costs in the Female Variable Field Cricket, California

Martin, Christopher, University of California, Davis

Ichthyological Exploration of Cameroonian Crater Lakes

Michel, Nicole, Tulane University

Insectivorous Bird vs. Bat Control of Aethropods in Intact Versus Fragmented Tropical Rainforest, Costa Rica, Nicaragua

Moe, Annika, University of Minnesota

Pollinator Sharing and Hybridization Among New Guinea Figs

Nyari, Arpad, University of Kansas

Historical Biogeography and Speciation of Mangrove-Associated Members of the Australo-Papuan Avifauna

Pollard, Kimberly Anne, University of California, Los Angeles

The Evolution of Group Size and Individual Distinctiveness in Two Rodent Species

Pyron, Robert A., CUNY-The College of Staten Island

Impact of the Cochise Filter Barrier on Continental Biogeography in Arizona and New Mexico

Quazi, Shimona, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Evaluating Management Practices in the Buffer Zones of Selected Protected Areas in Bangladesh

Rangel-Posada, Juliana, Cornell University

The Mass Exodus of a Honey Bee Swarm From Its Nest: Who Produces the Signals That Induce a Synchronized Departure?

Salerno, Patricia, University of Texas, Austin

Testing Hypotheses for the Origin of Biodiversity on Venezuelan Tepuis

Talbot, Jennifer, University of California, Irvine

Biological Mechanisms Linking Litter Chemistry with Decomposition Rate in an Alaska Boreal Forest

Van Dam, Alex, University of California, Davis

The Cochineal Insects: Revealing Pre-Columbian Trade and Ancient Biogeography in Peru

Vaughn, Robin, Texas A&M University

Dusky Dolphin Prey Herding: A Comparison Between Argentina and New Zealand

Watt, Kelly, University of Louisville

How Elite Emulation in Spanish Architecture Contributed to the Transformation of Territorial Expansion Into Reconquista

Wheeler, Erica, University of Missouri

Molecular Systematics, Phylogeography, and Conservation of Wild Onions in North America

Woolford, Ian, University of Texas, Austin

Vidyapati in North-Indian Fiction and Performance, Bihar

Zink, Stephan, University of Pennsylvania

Case Study in Early Augustan Temple Design at the Temple of Appollo Palatinus, Rome

2006-2007

Booth, Michael, Cornell University

The Ecological Role of Suckers (Pisces: Catastomidae) in the American Southwest

Burkle, Laura, Dartmouth College

The Effects of Nitrogen on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms, Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, Colorado

Chaboo, Caroline, American Museum of Natural History

Collection, Species Identification, and Cultural Practices Surrounding the Use of Leaf Beetles as Poisons, Namibia

Chambliss, Cassandra, Indiana University

Saint Veneration in Upper Egypt

Donaldson, Jack, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Linking Lakes to Land: Understanding Spatial Aspects of Allochthonous Subsidies in Northern Iceland

Dvorakova, Antonie, University of Chicago

Beyond the "Two Worlds" Conundrum: Native American and African American Scholars' Experience

Ellis, Ben, University of Leicester

Physical Volcanology of Silicic Super-Eruptions in the Snake River Plain, Idaho

Faith, J. Tyler, George Washington University

The Bones of Shompole Conservation Area, Kenya: The Application of Bone Survey as an Ecological Monitoring Technique

Gugger, Paul, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Geographic and Adaptive Consequences of Past Climate Warming for Douglas-Fir in Mexico

Gutierrez, Mercedes, Washington University

Fieldwork on Late Oligocene Fossils of Kenya

Jahnke, Lori, Tulane University

Mortuary Practice, Biological Variation, and Social Organization in Ancient Peru

Jones, Holly, Yale University

Evaluating Ecosytem Recovery Following Invasive Species Removal, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

Kim, Nam, University of Illinois, Chicago

Warfare and State Formation in Ancient Vietnam

Kirschel, Alex, University of California, Los Angeles

Morphological Divergence Drives Ecological Character Displacement in Pogoniulus Tinkerbird Song, Sub-Saharan Africa

Koelle, Alexandra, University of California, Santa Cruz

Rites of Passage, Rights-of-Way in Northern Rockies Transportation Corridors

Kunte, Krushnamegh, University of Texas at Austin

Ecology of Model-Mimic Coexistence and Butterfly Mimicry Rings in Northeastern and Southern India

Lasseter, Ava, University of Florida

Knowledge, Networks, and Capital: Adapting to Change in a Small-Scale Mexican Fishery

Linkem, Charles, University of Kansas

Evolutionary Relationships and Biogeography on the Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia

Nagel, Alexander, University of Michigan

The Colors of Ancient Persepolis, Iran

Peirson, Jess, University of Michigan

Biogeography and Evolution of the Solidago simplex (Asteraceae) Species Complex in Western North America

Rabeling, Christian, University of Texas, Austin

Evolutional Ecology of the Asexual Fungus-Gardening Ant Mycocepurus smithii, Brazil

Rentsch, Dennis, University of Minnesota

Drivers of Bushmeat Hunting in Western Serengeti, Kenya, Ecosystem: Protein Consumption and Socio-Economic Factors

Schwartz, Lauren E., University of California, Riverside

Investigations of Household Vernacular Architecture, Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras

Sheldon, Kimberly, University of Washington

The Role of Temperature in Setting the Distribution of Species of Dung Beetles in Ecuador

Sikes, Kathryn, College of William and Mary

Early Colonial Relations on the Upper James River, Hopewell, Virginia

Sperling, Erik, Yale University

Ocean Chemistry Changes and Biomineralization at the Base of the Cambrian in Namibia, Siberia, and the Great Basin, USA

Streicker, Daniel, University of Georgia

Biodiversity, Behavior, Population Dynamics, and Zoonotic Disease Transmission in Panamanian Vampire Bats

Swamy, Varun, Duke University

Peccaries, Palms, Poaching, and Plant Recruitment in the Peruvian Amazon

Tripathy, Alka, Arizona State University

Detrial Mineral Thermochronology of the Indus Molasse, Northwestern Indian Himalaya

Wander, Katherine, University of Washington

Infectious Disease History, Micronutrient Status, and Skin Test Reactivity Among Children in Tanzania

Warren, Andrew D., Florida Museum of Natural History

Taxonomic and Biogeographic Studies of the Butterflies of Northern Mexico (Lepidoptera)

Werlin, Steven, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Examining Unpublished Finds from the Synagogues of Ancient Palestine

Wieland, Michelle, University of Minnesota

Perceptions and Use of a Protected Congolese Environment, Republic of Congo

Winternitz, Jamie, University of Georgia

Interactions Between Host Sociality and Infectious Disease Dynamics in the Southeastern United States

Wood, Hannah, University of California, Berkeley

Assassin Spiders of Australia

Woods, Nathan, City University of New York

Pacific Coast U.S. Professional Networks and Scientific Regionalism in the Environmental Sciences

Yan, Caie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Social Interactions and Kinship Among a Multi-Level Society of Rhinopithecus roxellana in China

2005-2006

Adjemian, Jennifer Zipser, University of California, Davis

The Dynamics and Ecology of Environmental Reservoirs of Plague in the Western United States

Allan, Brian, Washington University, St. Louis

Identification of Zoonotic Reservoirs for Tick-Borne Diseases of the Midwestern United States Using Molecular Techniques

Allen, Julie, University of Florida

Through the Eyes of Lice: What Parasites Can Tell Us About Host Population Interactions, Uganda

Arendt, Beatrix, University of Virginia

An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Hebron Mission in Labrador, Canada

Arnold, Bryan, University of Maryland, College Park

Low Frequency Social Calls as a Mechanism for Conspecific Recruitment During Roost Site Relocation in the Pallid Bat, Fossil, Oregon

Barrett, Autumn, College of William and Mary

History and Identity in Brazil

Chang, Cynthia, Yale University

Role of Diversity at the Genetic and Community Levels in Kansas Native Tallgrass Prairie Under Invasion by Caucasian Bluestem

Chatterjee, Ipsita, Clark University

A Case Study of Hindu-Muslim Conflict in India

Contreras, Daniel, Stanford University

Sociopolitical and Geomorphologic Dynamics at Chavin de Huantar, Peru

Csiki, Shane, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Effects of Run-of-River Dams on Stream Morphology in Central and Northeastern Illinois

de la Sancha, Noe, Texas Tech University

Effects of Human-Induced Fragmentation on the Structure of Small Mammal Assemblages in the Atlantic Forest, Paraguay

Dexter, Kyle, Duke University

Influence of Dispersal on Tropical Tree Community Composition, Madre de Dios, Peru

Esselstyn, Jacob, University of Kansas

Testing Hypotheses of Historical Biogeography in a Complex Phillipine Archipelago

Ferretti, Valentina, Cornell University

Disentangling Breeding Synchrony from Extra-Pair Paternity in Swallows

Gifford, Matthew, Washington University, St. Louis

Evolutionary Relationships between Habitat Use, Morphology, and Performance Among Populations of Lizard from Hispanola

Green, David J., George Washington University

Ileret Excavations, Koobi Fora, Kenya

Guayasamin, Juan, University of Kansas

Evolutionary Relationships, Biogeography, and Conservation of Glass Frogs in Venezuela

Harvey, Rachel, University of Florida

Township Tours: Assessing Cape Town's Cultural Tourism

Havran, John Christopher, Ohio University

Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Violets

Hughey, Myra, Boston University

Consequences of Interactions Among Red-Eyed Treefrog Egg Consumers, Gamboa, Panama: Flies, Fungi, Wasps

Jacobsen, Anna, Washington University, St. Louis

Remembering Somalia: Individual and Social Processes of Rebuilding in Kenya

Jones, Holly, Yale University

Evaluating Ecosystem Recovery Following Invasive Species Removal, New Zealand

Jones, Natalie, Western Kentucky University

Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Southeastern Kenya

Koopman, Margaret, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Exploration of Evolution and Pollination Ecology of Malagasy Endemic Plant Genus Megistostegium

Kraatz, Brian, University of California, Berkeley

Precise Timing of Major Faunal Transition in Asia Near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary

Kushnir, Hadas, University of Minnesota

Human-Lion Conflict in Southeastern Tanzania: Analysis of Causes to Develop Solutions

Lombard, Carol, University of South Africa

A Spirit of Remembrance: Investigating the Mnemonic Nature of Niitsitapi Personal Names

Mattison, Siobhan, University of Washington

The Behavioral Ecology of Sex-Biased Parental Favoritism Among the Ethnic Na (Moso) of Southwest China

Meyer, Matthew, University of Virginia

The Influence of Globalization on an Amazonian Ayahuasca Church

O'Neill, Eric, Utah State University

Evolutionary Potential and Penotypic Plasticity of a Frog in Its Native (Puerto Rico) and Introduced (Hawaii) Ranges

Palardy, James, Brown University

A Stage-Based Population Model for a Non-Symbiotic Coral in the Galapagos and Implications for Conservation

Papageorgiou, Sophia, University of California, Davis

Impact of Forest Changes in the Emergence of Tick-Borne Diseases in Inner Mongolia

Park, Indrek, Indiana University

The Sound Patterns of Hidatsa, a Siouan Language Spoken in North Dakota

Ruck, Elizabeth, University of Texas, Austin

Diatoms of Ancient Lakes Ohrid and Prespa, Macedonia

Sousa, Bridget, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Major Histocompatability Complex, Ornaments, and Mate Choice in the Kansas Dickcissel

Tripp, Erin, Duke University

Systematics and Pollination Syndrome Transitions in the Mexican Form of the Species-Rich Genus Ruellia

Tsai, Howard, University of Michigan

Archaeological Survey of the Quebrada Del Caracol in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

Urbani, Bernardo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Study of the Spatial Memory and Foraging Strategies of Capuchins (Costa Rica)

Vary, Laura, University of California, Irvine

Factors Promoting the Maintenance of Monoecy in the Malagasy Sapindaceae

Vinueza, Luis, Oregon State University

Conservation Ecology of Galapagos Rocky Shores in the Face of Human Disturbance and Climate Change

Whitfield, Steven, Florida International University

Spatial Scale, Determinants of Abundance, and Demography in a Collapsing Tropical Herpetofauna, Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Wise, Erika, University of Arizona

Investigation of a Unique Hydroclimatic Transition Zone in Wyoming

Young, Kristin, University of California, Irvine

Facilitation of Succession in Tropical Pasture by an Al Hyper-Accumulator in Costa Rica

Zacher, Melanie, University of Illinois, Chicago

Violent Transformations in the Late Iron Age of Western Kenya

 

2004-2005

Cannariato, Kevin, University of Southern California

Thai Stalagmites and Regional Rainfall Prediction and Hypotheses of Future Global Climate Change

Choo, Juanita, University of Texas at Austin

Tritophic Interactions Between Humans, Palms, and Weevils with the Hoti Peple of the Venezuelan Amazon

de la Sancha, Noé, Texas Tech University

Study of the effects of habitat fragmentation on small marsupials (Didelphidae) in Paraguay

Dominy, Nathaniel, University of California, Santa Cruz

Characterization of the stable isotopes and mechanical properties of putative hominin foods through a sampling of a variety of plant underground storage organs, such as tubers, roots, rhizomes, and corms

Endonino, John, University of Florida and SEARCH, Inc.

Reconnaissance survey and test excavations within the Lake Monroe Conservation Area, St. Johns River, FL, to understand the relationship between, and integration of, what might be the earliest burial mounds in the Southeastern U.S. and the places of everyday habitation of the hunter-gatherers who built them between 4000-2000 B.C.

Fichtner, Elizabeth, University of California, Davis

Investigation of ecophysiological factors mediating pathogen survival in forests infested with Sudden Oak Death in Sonoma County, California

Fisher, Carolyn, City University of New York

Growers' Views of the Fair Trade Coffee Commodity Chain

Glaser, Amelia, University of Pennsylvania

Study of rural markets in the Ukraine and interviews about changes in the markets during the Soviet period as part of a study of the cultural significance of local marketplaces to historical relations between Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles

Grace, Tony, Kansas State University

A worldwide study of the population genetics and breeding structure of the Indian meal moth to provide information on genetic variability, gene flow, and migration patterns within the United States and across continents

Guo, Zibin, University of Tennessee

Interviews with local historians, Asian American scholars, and community leaders in selected cities to gain an in-depth understanding of the social and cultural development of six Asian American populations and their contributions to the social, economic, cultural, and political landscapes of the American West

Hale Gallardo, Jennifer, University of Florida

Exploration of transformations in indigenous healing modalities and the emergence of new forms of expertise at an intercultural hospital in Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexico

Hock, Andrew N., University of California, Los Angeles

The Physical and Chemical Nature of Three Lakes in Bolivia as a Proxy for Ancient Mars

Janz, Lisa, University of Arizona

Initial archaeological survey of sub-sites at Bayan Dzak in the Gobi Desert-one of the most significant sites in Mongolia, containing artifacts from occupations ranging from 5 to 15,000 years ago-using a GPS and a topographic base map

Mahdi, Leena, University of Hawaii, Manoa

First Fungi and Yeast Samples from Several Hawaiian Islands

Miles, William, Northeastern University

Gathering of oral testimony from elderly informants and community leaders in Southeast Asia along the Upper Mekong River dividing Laos from Burma to study the contemporary implications of French versus British colonialism for partitioned peoples

Nelson, Stewart, Project Nautilus

Documentation of the world's first Arctic submarine, the Nautilus, scuttled in 1,100 feet of water near Bergen, Norway, using a manned submersible

Riihimaki, Catherine, Bryn Mawr College

Pilot study in Glacier National Park to look at environmental change near Grinnell Glacier by collecting and analyzing several lake sediment cores, which record changes in ecology and climate over hundreds to thousands of years

Russello, Michael, Yale University

Exploratory study to examine ecological, behavioral, and genetic mechanisms underlying the successful invasion of North America by the Monk Parakeet; observational and non-invasive genetic data will be collected to study breeding biology, behavior, an social structure within and among colony nests

Tamir, Orit, New Mexico Highlands University

Study of the rise and spread of the Navajo Sun Dance, in the context of social-cultural changes

Vanden Brooks, John, Yale University

Collection of 500 alligator eggs from Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana for an examination of the effects of varying the partial pressure of oxygen on their development

Watson, Adam, University of Virginia

Analysis of faunal remains and a pilot study of Outram's fracture freshness index at the Neolithic village site of Catalhoyuk, Turkey

Zaspel, Jennifer, University of Florida

Investigation of the evolution of blood feeding and disease transmission potential in the vampire moths of Nepal(Lepidoptera: Catocalidae)