CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowship Recipients, 2012-2013
Gaddy Bergmann
CIRES Ph.D. student: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Advisor: Noah Fierer
Bergmann is studying the community of bacteria that inhabit the bison digestive tract and how it varies among different herds across the Great Plains.
Sean Haney
CIRES Ph.D. student: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Advisor: Baylor Fox-Kemper
Haney's research focuses on improving global climate models by better accounting for the ocean mixed layer and its interactions with the atmosphere.
Brett Palm
CIRES Ph.D. student: Analytical/Atmospheric Chemistry
Advisor: Jose-Luis Jimenez
Palm's research focuses on the application of a Rapid Secondary Aerosol Formation Measurement Tool for laboratory and field studies.
Adriana Raudzens Bailey
CIRES Ph.D. student: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Advisor: David Noone
Raudzens Bailey is studying the vertical moisture exchange through the convective boundary layer in the atmosphere.
Joe Rokicki
CIRES Ph.D. student: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Advisor: Shelley Copley
Rokicki is investigating the Sphingobium chlorophenolicum bacterium and the genetic regulation of enzymes that degrade the environmental toxin pentachlorophenol.
Jessica Weinkle
CIRES Ph.D. student: Environmental Studies
Advisor: Roger Pielke Jr.
Weinkle's research involves a policy evaluation of Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corporation with the goal of informing the process of forecasting, negotiating understanding, and democratically governing hurricane risk.