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NWSA 2014 Student Grant Award RecipientsAuthor(s):Source: Northwest Science, 88(2):III-IV. 2014.Published By: Northwest Scientific AssociationDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3955/046.088.0203URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3955/046.088.0203

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

NWSA 2014 Student Grant Award Recipients

Each year the Northwest Scientific Association solicits research grant proposals from graduate and under-graduate students conducting research in northwestern North America. Supporting young scientists in their research endeavors is an important function of the NWSA. This year we received a record 78 student proposals representing 25 universities and colleges in a wide variety of disciplines. Roughly fifty percent of the proposals were from PhD candidates, forty percent from MS/MA can-didates, and ten percent from BS/BA candidates. The Student Grant Committee [Connie Harrington, Gary Kleinknecht, Regina Rochefort, Andrea Woodward, and Bax R. Barton (Chair), augmented with the following present and past members of the NWSA Board of Directors: Robyn Darbyshire, Janelle Downs, Katherine Glew, Mark Harmon, Trudy Kavanagh, George Last, Elizabeth Nesbitt, Patrick Pringle, Gregg Riegel] ranked these proposals based on the research question, study design, quality of the science and potential contribution, and quality of the presentation. The NWSA is pleased to announce the eleven 2014 Student Grant Award recipients.

PhD candidate awards:

Richard E.W. Berl, Washington State University—School of Biological Sciences. Grant Award: $1,490.00. “A comparative study of social behavior in Gray wolves (Canis lupus).”

Jonathan J. Calede, University of Washington—Department of Biology. Grant Award: $1,499.00. “Contrasting faunas across the northwestern United States 30 to 20 million years ago: the role of environmental change in the emergence of modern mammalian communities.”

Benjamin J. Dittbrenner, University of Washington—-School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences. Grant Award: $1,488.08. “Use of unmanned aerial vehicles to measure how beaver reintroductions mitigate effects of climate change on the Skykomish River watershed, Washington.”

Halley E. Froehlich, University of Washington —School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Grant Award: $1,296.00. “Evaluation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α gene expression in Pacific herring Clupea pallasii as a biomarker for hypoxia exposure in the field.”

Aija White, University of Northern British Columbia—Natural Resources and Environmental Studies. Grant Award: $1,500.00. “Interactions between parental quality and food abundance: Resource acquisition and allocation in Mountain Bluebirds (Sialia currucoides).”

MS/MA candidate awards:

Natalie Hollis, Idaho State University—Department of Geology. Grant Award: $1,500.00. “Tracing the Stansbury Uplift with detrital zircon signatures.”

Kurt S. Imhoff, University of Montana—Geosciences Department. Grant Award: $1,500.00. “Sedi-ment routing through headwater confluences in a gravel-bed river system.”

Johanna Claire Thalman, Idaho State University—Department of Biological Science. Grant Award: $1,500.00. “Reproduction and growth of American bison: the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in a varying environment.”

Taylor Wilcox, University of Montana—Department of Wildlife Biology. Grant Award: $1,266.90. “A novel application of environmental DNA to estimate spawning date of trout in streams.”

BS/BA candidate awards:

Paige Alexandra Byerly, University of Idaho—College of Natural Resources. Grant Award: $1,500.00. “Using noninvasive genetic sampling techniques to estimate population size in greater sage-grouse.”

Adam L. Keener, Boise State University—Department of Biological Sciences. Grant Award: $1,500.00. “Can bats tell footstep sounds apart?: A test of a novel form of prey discrimination in the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus.”