July 1997 - June 1999:	Joseph Kiesecker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology Nature Conservancy	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.
July 1999 - June 2001:	Douglas Gollin, Ph.D. Associate 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.
July 1999 - June 2001:	Ofer Ovadia, Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Life Sciences 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.
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.
September 2000 - August 2002:	Campbell Webb, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Arnold Arboretum Harvard University Cambridge, MA	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 2001- June 2003:	Luciano Beheregaray, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Macquaire University Sydney, Australia Head of MELMU and MEGMAR Associate Editor, Conservation Genetics	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
July 2001- June 2003:	Jeremy Redman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering CA State University at Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach, California 90840	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:  Bacterial Transport in Aquatic Systems; Interpreting Microbial Deposition Patterns
August 2002 - July 2004:	Jenney Hall, Ph.D. Instructor of Oceanography Glendale Community College 1500 North Verdugo Road Glendale, California  91208	Sponsor: Professor Karl K. Turekian, Geology & Geophysics Research:  Paleoceanographic and climate change reconstruction over various time scales.
January 2003 - December 2004:	Klaus Meiners, Ph.D. Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center Private Bag 80 Hobart, Tas 7001 Australia	Sponsor: Professor John Wettlaufer, Geology & Geophysics Research:  The ecology of frozen oceans -  controls on primary production in sympagic communities
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.
August 2003 - July 2005:	Amy Russell, Ph.D. Research Associate 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.
August 2003 - July 2005:	Benjamin Twining, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208	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.
October 2003 - September 2005:	Stephen Meyers, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Paleoclimatology, Sedimentary Geochemistry, Stratigraphy and Geostatistics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina	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 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.
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.
June 2005 - May 2007:	Helen Nguyen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 205 North Mathews Ave Urbana, IL 61801-2352	Sponsor: Professor Menachem Elimelech, Environmental Engineering Research:  Adsorption of genetic materials to soil minerals:  implications for horizontal gene transfer in the environment.
September 2005 - July 2006; July 2007 - August 2008:	Margaret Evans, Ph.D.	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.
September 2005 - August 2007:	Tracy Langkilde, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology Pennsylvania State University 417 Mueller Laboratory University University Park, PA	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?
September 2006 - August 2008:	Barry Alto, Ph.D.	Sponsor: Paul Turner, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research:  Biostatistics and the ecology and evolution of arthropod-borne RNA viruses.
January 2007 - December 2008:	Dror Hawlena, Ph.D.	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.
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.
October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2009	Katy Prudic, Ph.D.	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 know 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.
October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2009	Austin Hendy, Ph.D.	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.
September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2010	Matthew Brandley, Ph.D.	Sponsor:  Tom Near, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research:  Developmental Processes of morphological diversity and their evolutionary response to climate change
October 1, 2008 - September 30, 2010	Michael Dodd, Ph.D.	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
August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010	Christopher Gilbert, Ph.D.	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