YIBS Small Pilot Grant and Dissertation Improvement Grant Recipients for 2012

Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Director, Os Schmitz, is pleased to announce the recipients of the YIBS Small Pilot Grant Awards and Dissertation Improvement Grants for 2012. 

Director of the YIBS Small Pilot Grant Awards David Post, Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, chose the following students to receive awards:

Meredith Atwood

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Award:  $3,000
Research topic:  Food Webs in Temporary Ponds

Karin Burghardt

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Award:  $3,000

Research topic:  Impact of plasticity in plant-herbivore interactions on ecosystems processes

Jessamy Doman

Department of Anthropology

Award:   $3,000

Research topic:  Paleoecology at the Origin of Hhominins:  the Faunal evidence, 5.7-7 Ma

Anobha Gurung

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Award:  $1,750
Research Topic: Understanding Exposure to Traffic Related Air Pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal

Kathryn Hacker

School of Public Health

Award:  $3,000
Research Topic:  Eco-epidemiology of Leptospirosis in the Urban Slum Communities

Nikki Springer

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Award: $2500

Research Topic: Wild Energy: Renewable Energy Generation in Wilderness Lands

Dissertation Improvement Awards for 2012:

Akram Agha Ali

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Award:  $4,000

Research Topic:  “Water Use in Pakistan’s Agriculture:  “Efficient Water Allocation in Pakastani Agricultural Production”

Luisa Cortesi

Department of Anthropology

$5,000

Research Topic:  “Living in Floods:  Knowledge(s) and Technologies of Disastrous Water in North Bihar, India”

Andrew Jones

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Award:  $5,000

Research Topic:  “Adaptation in alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) via RAD sequencing”

Kimberly LaPierre

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Award:  $5,000

Research topic:  “Drivers of Grassland Invertebrate Community Structure:  Effects of Soil Nutrient Availability and Vertebrate Herbivores on Invertebrate Resource Limitation”

Mary Rogalski

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Award:  $5,000

Research Topic:  “Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Historic Lake Pollution”

Zaarur Shikma

Department of Geology & Geophysics

Award:  $2,700

Research Topic:  “U- and Th-bearing phases in aquifer host rock-source for high radium activity in the Nubian Sandstone aquifer”