Gaylord Donnelley Environmental
Postdoctoral Fellows
and Postdoctoral Associates
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015 |
Giovanna Carpi, PhD |
Sponsor: Maria Diuk-Wasser, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health
Research: Linking vertebrate diversity with tick-borne pathogen species and genome-wide diversity. |
August 1, 2013 to July 31, 2015 |
Jesse Berman, PhD |
Sponsor: Michelle Bell, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: Reseach to examine how drought in the United States affects levels of airborne particles and thereby impacts the risk of mortality and illness for respiratory diseases.
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July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2014 |
Susanna Messinger, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: David Vasseur, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Understanding the mechinisms governing the distribution and abundance of the more than 8. million species that inhabit earth.
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| September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014 |
Arthur Middleton, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: David Skelly, Professor of Ecology and Associate Dean of Research, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: Linking prey behavior to population and ecosystem-level pattern: What drives variation in the strength of risk effects among temperate ungulates?
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| August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2014 |
Bridget Nugent, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Suzanne Alonzo, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Understanding the proximate mechanisms that give rise to variation within and across species and thereby provide a sbstrate for selection and diversification that is critical to understanding the origins of biodiversity in wild species that may help to explain phenotypic variation in other organisms through comparative studies.
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| September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014 |
Matthew Ogburn, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Michael Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Community assembly, niche evolution, and the future of alpine plant communities.
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| August 25, 2011 - August 24, 2013 |
Isabelle Kruta, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology & Geophyics; Director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Research: Role of ammonites in the Mesozoic food web.
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| September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013 |
Matthew Niemiller, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Thomas Near, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Crypic diversity and speciation in cave organisms: delimiting species and evolutionary history in the southern cavefist (Typhlichthys subterraneus).
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| October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2013 |
Jay Zarnetske, Ph.D. |
Sponsors: James Saiers and Peter Raymond, Professors at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: Watershed hydrology, aquatic ecology, ecosystem informatics, hydrogeology, stable isotope biogeochemistry and global water resource issues.
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| September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013 |
Adrian Ghilardi, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Robert Bailis, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: Charcoal-driven degradation in secondary forests: Conserving biodiversity while maintaining production levels using opportuniti4es under REDD+.
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| August 15, 2010 - June 30, 2012 |
Daniel Rosauer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, working with Craig Moritz, principally on spatial modeling related to the phylogeography and conservation of lizards in northern Australia. |
Sponsor: Walter Jetz, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Biodiversity informatics, macroevolution and conservation science.
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| May 17, 2010 - May 16, 2012 |
Nina Lehr, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Jeffrey Townsend, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: The evolution of gene expression underlying sexual development in fungi.
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| August 16, 2010 - August 15, 2011 |
Valerie Fuchs, Ph.D. Water Resources Engineer, MWH, Sacremento, CA |
Sponsor: Julie Zimmerman, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Research: Optimizing ecosystem benefits through water systems infrastructure location.
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| July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011 |
Matthew Walsh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate,Post Lab, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
Sponsor: David Post, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: The link between environmental heterogeneity and evolutionary change in coastal lake ecosystems.
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| August 1, 2009 - July 31, 2011 |
Gloria-Soria, Andrea, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate,Buss Lab, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
Sponsor: Leo Buss, Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Characterization of the allelic variation on the allorecognition complex of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus.
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| July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011 |
Christopher Clark, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Prum Lab, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
Sponsor: Rick Prum, William Coe Robinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), Chair of EEB; Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History; Professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: The mechanics and diversity of feather-generated sounds in birds.
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| September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2011- March 31, 2012 |
Nicholas Longrich, Ph.D.
YIBS Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics |
Sponsor: Jacques Gauthier, Professor in the Department of Geology & Geophysics
Research:
Dinosaur diversity trends in the late Cretaceous of Western North America: Understanding the influence of global climate change and sea levels.
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August 1, 2008 -
July 31, 2010 |
Christopher Gilbert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hunter College SUNY, Department of Anthropology |
Sponsors: Andrew Hill,
Clayton Stephenson Class of 1954
Professor of Anthropology; Curator
and Head of Anthropology Division,
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural
History, and Eric Sargis, Associate
Professor of Anthropology
Research: Paleoenvironments and the
biodiversity, biogeography and
phylogenetic history of African
cercopithecoid monkeys.
|
October 1, 2008 -
September 30, 2009 |
Michael Dodd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington |
Sponsor: William
Mitch, Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental
Engineering
Research: The influence of
solar irradiation-generated halogen
radicals on processing of marine
dissolved organic matter:
implications for oceanic photic zone
depth and organic carbon
bioavailability.
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| October 1, 2007 - September 30,
2009 |
Austin Hendy, Ph.D.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
Sponsor: Derek E.G. Briggs, Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology &
Geophysics
Research: Dr.
Hendy's doctoral research has sought
to investigate consequences of
variations in large-scale
environmental transitions (e.g.
tectonic, climatic and sea level
change) on the structure and
diversity of past marine ecosystems.
Detecting such patterns in the
fossil record, and accurately
determining the processes
responsible for them, is not only
significant to evolutionary biology,
but also of potential importance to
the wider community.
Fundamental to the correct
interpretation of paleobiological
patterns is the quality of taxonomic
information derived from the fossil
record. Evolutionary
biologists should be concerned about
how faithfully the fossil record
represents the original
biodiversity, including the nature
of species and genera identified by
paleontologists, and how fossil
preservation (taphonomy) influences
taxonomic procedures.
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September 1, 2008 -
August 31, 2010 |
Matthew Brandley, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences |
Sponsor: Tom
Near, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology
Research: Developmental
Processes of morphological diversity
and their evolutionary response to
climate change.
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| October 1, 2007 - August 31, 2010 |
Katy L.Prudic, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Department of Zoology,
Oregon State University |
Sponsor:
Antonia Monteiro,
Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology
Research:
Butterfly wing patterns are
wonderfully diverse. How and
why did this group of insects
acquire such a spectacular array of
designs? What is the utility
of such designs? A common wing
pattern in butterflies have these
eyespots by examining their signal
efficacy in the field and the
laboratory. Much is know about
how these eyespots are
produced on the developing wings;
however, very little is known
regarding why butterflies
have eyespots and how they function
in nature. Understanding the
signal function of eyespots will
give us a deeper understanding of
wing coloration, signaling and
biodiversity in butterflies.
Dr. Prudic will test two hypotheses
explaining the function of border
eyespots in butterflies: 1) eyespots
function as an anti-predator
defense, or 2) eyespots function in
butterfly mate recognition and
choice.
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September 2006
- August 2008: |
David Zinniker, Ph.D. |
Sponsor:
Mark Pagani, Associate Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Research:
Research interests lie at the broad
intersection of the earth and life
sciences, and have included work in
organic geochemistry,
micropaleontology, sedimentary
geology, basin analysis, and
petroleum systems. A growing
focus of his research is molecular
organic proxies that address past
and present plant, algal, and
microbial physiology and ecology;
chemical and physical
oceanography/limnology; hydrology;
and climate.
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January 2007
- December
2008: |
Dror Hawlena
Academic Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians -
The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Sponsors:Oswald
Schmitz, Oastler Professor of
Population & Community Ecology and
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies; Professor,
Ecology/Evolutionary Biology
Research: The
way disease agents and predators
interact to alter the behavior of
the species of host/prey that they
share.
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September 2006
- August 2008: |
Barry Alto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
University of Florida - Entomology Laboratory |
Sponsor:
Paul Turner, Associate Professor of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research:
Biostatistics and the ecology and
evolution of arthropod-borne RNA
viruses.
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September 2005
- August
2007: |
Tracy Langkilde, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Pennsylvania State University
|
Sponsor:
Professor David Skelly, School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies
and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research:
Incorporating evolutionary theory
into biodiversity conservation: how
rapidly and effectively can native
communities evolve to minimize the
impact of invasive species?
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September 2005
- July
2006;
July 2007 - August 2008: |
Margaret Evans,
Ph.D.Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Museum National D’Histiore Naturelle, Paris, France. |
Sponsors: Michael Donoghue,
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and
Stephen Stearns, Edward P. Bass
Professor of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research:
Research in basic and applied plant
evolutionary ecology, particularly
in the fields of life history
evolution, demography and population
modeling.
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June 2005 - May 2007: |
Helen Nguyen,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
|
Sponsor:
Professor Menachem Elimelech,
Environmental Engineering
Research:
Adsorption of genetic materials to
soil minerals: implications for
horizontal gene transfer in the
environment.
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July 2004
- June
2006: |
Craig Layman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Marine Science Program
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida International University |
Sponsor:
Professor David Post, Department of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research:
To address (1) does ecosystem size
affect food chain length in
Caribbean estuaries, and if so (2)
which measure(s) of ecosystem size
(e.g. water volume of estuaries,
catchment surface area, amount of
tidal flow, or “resource “shed” –
the total area from which an
ecosystem derives resources) is most
useful in accounting for differences
in FCL.
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August 2004 - July 2006: |
Gregory Dietl,
Ph.D.
Director
of Collections at the Paleontological Research Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca,
NY
|
Sponsor:
Professor Derek Briggs, Department
of Geology & Geophysics
Research:
Circumstances under which evolution
occurs with particular interest in
arms races between species in
evolution.
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October 2003 - September 2005: |
Stephen Meyers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Geoscience
at
University of Wisconsin, Madison
|
Sponsor:
Professor Mark Pagani, Geology &
Geophysics
Research:
Quantifying Holocene climate
response to the North Atlantic
oscillation; the origin and
stability of centennial-millennial
scale cyclicity in quaternary.
|
August
2003
- July
2005: |
Benjamin Twining, Ph.D.
University Affiliate
University of South Carolina
|
Sponsor:
Professor Gaboury Benoit, School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research:
Use of a combination of
synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence
microscopy, AAS/and/or ICP-MS, and
voltammetric techniques to study the
factors controlling the accumulation
of metals by estuarine biota.
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August 2003 - July 2005: |
Amy Russell, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Arizona
Arizona Research Laboratory
Division of Biotechnology
|
Sponsor:
Professor Anne Yoder, Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology
Research: Evolutionary history and
biogeography of chameleons in a megadiversity hotspot.
|
October 2002 - September 2004: |
Susanna Remold, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
|
Sponsor:
Professor Paul Turner, Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology
Research:
Environmental heterogeneity and the
evolutions of genetic architecture
in viruses; career consequences of
expertise with mammalian pathogens.
|
January 2003 - December 2004: |
Klaus Meiners, Ph.D.
Sea Ice Ecologist
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems
Cooperative Research Center
|
Sponsor:
Professor John Wettlaufer, Geology &
Geophysics
Research:
The ecology of frozen oceans -
controls on primary production in
sympagic communities
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August 2002 - July 2004: |
Jenney Hall, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Professor Karl K. Turekian, Sterling Professor of Geology
& Geophysics
Research:
Paleoceanographic and climate change
reconstruction over various time
scales.
|
July
2001- June 2003: |
Jeremy
Redman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental
Engineering at
CA
State University at Long Beach
1250
Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, California 90840
|
Sponsor: Menachem
Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Prof of Chemical
Engineering; Chairman, Chemical Engineering &
Director of the Environmental Engineering
Program; Professor, School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies
Research:
Bacterial Transport in Aquatic
Systems; Interpreting Microbial
Deposition Patterns
|
July
2001- June 2003: |
Luciano Beheregaray, Ph.D.
Professor,
Flinders University
|
Sponsor: Dr. Gisella Caccone, Director, ECOSAVE
Conservation Genetics Laboratory;
Lecturer, Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology
Research:
Evolution and Conservation of Giant
Galápagos Tortoises; Patterns of
Diversification in Amazonian Fishes
|
September
2000 - August 2002: |
Campbell
Webb, Ph.D.
Senior
Research Scientist
Arnold Arboretum at
Harvard University and
Smithsonian Center for Tropical Forest Science
|
Sponsors: Mark Ashton, Professor of
Silviculture and Forest Ecology,
Director of School Forests; and Michael Donoghue,
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology
& Evolutionary Biology
Research:
Comparative Phylogenetic Structure
of Rain Forest Tree Communities |
July
2000 - June 2002: |
Claudio
Ciofi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal Biology &
Genetics
University of Florence
Via Romana 17, 50125
Florence, Italy
|
Sponsors: Dr. Gisella Caccone,
ECOSAVE Conservation Genetics
Laboratory and Lecturer, Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology; and Jeffrey
Powell, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology
Research: Developed a number
of research projects on the genetics
and ecology of island reptiles, and
established long-term collaboration
with both US and foreign
Institutions aimed at the management
and conservation of endangered
species. |
July 1999 - June 2001: |
Ofer
Ovadia, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel
|
Sponsor: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of
Population & Community Ecology and
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies; Professor,
Ecology/Evolutionary Biology
Research: Testing the effect
of state dependent decision making
of individual herbivores on food web
dynamics.
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July 1999 - June 2001: |
Douglas
Gollin, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Williams College
Economics Department
Williamstown, MA 01267 |
Sponsor: Professor Robert
Evenson, Economic Growth Center
Research: Examined the impact
of international agricultural
research on the sustainable
production of crops; studied
management of materials in
agricultural gene banks.
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July 1997 - June 1999: |
Joseph Kiesecker, Ph.D.
|
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly,
School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies
Research: Disease Ecology –
investigating the influence of
fungal pathogens on the distribution
of larval amphibians and dynamics of
their communities.
|
YIBS Postdoctoral Associates
| July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012 |
Federico Spada, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Sabatino Sofia, Professor, Astronomy
Research: Solar Structural Variability and Its Influence on Earth Climate
|
| May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2012 |
Berat Haznedaroglu, Ph.D. |
Sponsor: Jordan Peccia, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering
Research: Microalgae lipd analysis and bioinformatics
|
| March 2010 - February 2011 |
Li-Qing, Jiang, Ph.D.
Oceanographer/Physical Scientist
Earth Resources Technology, Inc.
|
Sponsor: Peter Raymond, Associate Professor in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: The impact of seasonal hypoxia on carbon dioxide in large estuarine systems – a case study of the Long Island Sound.
|
| August 10, 2009 - August 9, 2010 |
Larese-Casanova, Philip, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Northeastern University in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Sponsor: Ruth Blake, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics
Research: Improving bioremediation of groundwater contamination using
δ 18O stable Isotope signatures |
| July 20, 2009 - July 19, 2011 |
Wilson, Henry, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon Research Centre |
Sponsor: James Saiers, Professor of Hydrology and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Research: Determining the role played by hydrological events in mediating dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics and related in-stream processes
|
March 16,
2009 -
March 15, 2011 |
Chad Vecitis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciencs |
Sponsor: Menachem
Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Prof of Chem
Engr; Chairman, Chemical Engineering &
Director of the Environmental Engineering
Program; Professor, School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies
Research: anti-microbial
activity of single-walled carbon nanotubes,
with investigations into membrane stress
mediated toxicity
|
August 1,
2008 -
July 31, 2010 |
Alexander Jih-Pai Lin, Ph.D. Professor
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy at the
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
Chinese Academy of Science
|
Sponsor:
Derek Briggs, William Beinecke Professor of
Geology & Geophysics
Research: The uniqueness of
Cambrian paleoecology and closure of the
Cambrian taphonomic window |
August 2002 -
July 2004 |
Linda Puth, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist , Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
|
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly
School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies
Research: Putting the parts together: A
holistic treatment of invasion |
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