Student Grants Program
Student Grants-in-Aid are awarded annually on a competitive basis to graduate or undergraduate students in support of research on wetlands.
Forms and General Information for the 2009 Competition
SWS 2007 Student Awardees
Congratulations to all our Awardees for submitting excellent proposals!Medora Burke-Scoll
Department of Biology, Villanova University
"Can nitrogen fixation explain occult N accumulation in ombrotrophic boreal bogs?"
Julie DeMeester
Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
"Do human-induced nitrogen inputs enhance invasion of wetland ecosystems by nitrogen-responsive non-native plants?"
Molly Conlin
Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
"Enhanced ultraviolet-b radiation and carbon cycling in northern peatlands."
Stephen Hovick
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
"Enemy release and nutrient enrichment: Population- and community-level effects in experimental wetland plant communities"
Demetra Kandalepas
Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
"Effects of hurricanes on endophytic fungal diversity in saltmarsh plants"
Daehyun Kim
Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
"Linking micro-scale spatial zonation of vegetation across tidal creeks with fluvial-geomorphic processes on a coastal salt marsh"
Jason Martina
Dept. Plant Biology, Michigan State University
"Effects of plant diversity and functional identity on ecosystem nitrogen retention and removal in great lakes wetlands"
Monica Palta
Department of Ecology & Evolution, Rutgers University
"Management of nitrate removal in an urban setting: Examining hydrologic, geomorphic, and biogeochemical controls on denitrification over multiple spatiotemporal scales in urban wetland"
Ivan Phillipsen
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University
"The influence of mountain landscapes on genetic diversity and gene flow in amphibians: the cascades frog (Rana cascadae) as a model for the pacific northwest"
Mirela Tulbure
Dept. of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University
"Comparative convective ventilation of native and non-native genotypes of Phragmites australis (common reed)"
Si-Yi (Jenny) Wang
Department of Biology, Duke University
"Water quality consequences of microbial diversity in wetland soils."
James L. Zier
Dept. Botany, University of Wyoming,
"Modeling the effects of climate change on amphibian breeding habitat in a kettle pond ecosystem, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming."
Abstracts from previously funded studies: 2004, 2005, 2006
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