All past and present Mathias Grant recipients and their projects are listed in the table below. By default, the table is organized by year, with the most recent projects listed first.
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| Awardee | Reserve Used | Research Title | Campus | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven R. Morey | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Developmental plasticity and life-history evolution in the spadefoot toad | UC Riverside | 1988-1989 |
| Gregory J. Lowenberg | Bodega Marine Reserve | UC Davis | 1988-1989 | |
| Pamela Celeste Muick | Hastings Natural History Reservation | UC Berkeley | 1988-1989 | |
| Gwendolyn Bachman | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | UC Los Angeles | 1988-1989 | |
| Kim W. Kratz | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Colonization dynamics: Resource levels intraspecific interactions and predator impacts on prey populations | UC Santa Barbara | 1988-1989 |
| Felisa A. Smith | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Fiber utilization by a small mammalian herbivore, Neotoma lepida lepida | UC Irvine | 1988-1989 |
| David O. Ribble | Hastings Natural History Reservation | UC Berkeley | 1988-1989 | |
| Amos Bouskila | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Effect of predation risk from a snake on the micro-habitat utilization of desert rodents | UC Davis | 1989-1990 |
| Craig L. Frank | Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve and the San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve | The relationship between diet, depot fat composition, and the evolution of hibernation in Sciuridae | UC Davis | 1989-1990 |
| Steven Pennings | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Salt marsh vegetation patterns | UC Santa Barbara | 1989-1990 |
| Steven R. Morey | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Developmental plasticity and life-history evolution in spadefoot toads | UC Riverside | 1989-1990 |
| Stephen M. Secor | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Foraging mode as a determinant of energy expenditure in desert snakes | UC Los Angeles | 1989-1990 |
| Gwendolyn Bachman | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | UC Los Angeles | 1989-1990 | |
| Gretchen Barrow North | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Patterns of water stress-induced embolism and recovery in three arid-land vines in the Cucurbitaceae | UC Los Angeles | 1989-1990 |
| Stephen R. Wing | Bodega Marine Reserve | Physical forcing in the intertidal zone; mechanisms for enhanced primary production | UC Davis | 1989-1990 |
| Jane Claire Marks | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Experimental studies of epiphytic algae in the Eel River | UC Berkeley | 1989-1990 |
| Kim William Kratz | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Colonization dynamics: Resource levels, intraspecific interactions and predator impacts on prey populations | UC Santa Barbara | 1989-1990 |
| Adrian Laurence O’Loghlen | Valentine Camp | Vocal ontogeny and the maintenance of dialects in the brown-headed cowbird | UC Santa Barbara | 1989-1990 |
| Amos Bouskila | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Effect of predation risk from a snake on the micro-habitat utilization of desert rodents | UC Davis | 1990-1991 |
| Nicholas Pinter | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | The Santa Cruz Island Fault: Recent fault motion and late-Quaternary strain | UC Santa Barbara | 1990-1991 |
| Peter Matti Kotanen | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Revegetation of meadows disturbed by feral pigs (Sus scrofa L.) in Mendocino County, CA | UC Berkeley | 1990-1991 |
| Philip N. Hooge | Hastings Natural History Reservation | A multi-level analysis of dispersal in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus | UC Berkeley | 1990-1991 |
| Michelle Geary-Mallett | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | I. The Structure and dynamics of an old growth mixed evergreen forest II. The ecophysiology of seedling establishment for two overstory dominants of mixed evergreen forest | UC Davis | 1990-1991 |
| John Charles Hunter | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | I. The Structure and dynamics of an old growth mixed evergreen forest II. The ecophysiology of seedling establishment for two overstory dominants of mixed evergreen forest | UC Davis | 1990-1991 |
| Rhoda M. Ascanio | Motte Rimrock Reserve | The influence of interspecific interactions on habitat use by two kangaroo rat species (Dipodomys stephensi and D. agilis) | UC Riverside | 1990-1991 |
| Cheryl J. Briggs | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | The effect of multiple parasitoid species on the population dynamics of gall-forming midge | UC Santa Barbara | 1990-1991 |
| Adrian Laurence O’Loghlen | Valentine Camp | Vocal ontogeny and the maintenance of dialects in the brown-headed cowbird | UC Santa Barbara | 1990-1991 |
| Andrew R. Dyer | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Revegetation of Stipa pulchra as a model for restoration of native California grasslands | UC Davis | 1990-1991 |
| Katherine Courtney | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Redwood monoterpenes: movement, heterotrophic metabolism and Influence on nitrification in an undisturbed redwood Eecosystem | UC Santa Cruz | 1990-1991 |
| Felisa A. Smith | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | The consequences of herbivory as a dietary strategy for Neotoma lepida lepida (desert woodrat) | UC Irvine | 1990-1991 |
| Luis M. Mota-Bravo | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Natural perturbations, plant chemistry and insect herbivory: Salty wind, leaf beetles and arroyo willow | UC Irvine | 1990-1991 |
| Swarup Wood | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Redwood monoterpenes: movement, heterotrophic metabolism and influence on nitrification in an undisturbed redwood ecosystem | UC Santa Cruz | 1990-1991 |
| Michele A. Seidl | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Incision of bedrock channels and their tributaries | UC Berkeley | 1990-1991 |
| Jamie Lynn King | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Population genetic structure and the effects of spatial and temporal variability in the California vernal pool tadpole shrimp, Lepidurus packardi: Application to conservation management | UC Davis | 1991-1992 |
| Katherine Lee Muller | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | The role of conspecifics in habitat selection and territory establishment in the desert clicker, Ligurotettix coquilletti | UC Davis | 1991-1992 |
| Elizabeth A. Ross | Hastings Natural History Reservation | The California scrub jay: Why float? | UC Berkeley | 1991-1992 |
| Jane Claire Marks | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Population genetic structure of Cladophora glomerata: A reductionist approach to understanding genetic diversity of a freshwater alga. | UC Berkeley | 1991-1992 |
| Laura Furlong | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | The biogeography and ecology of streams on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 1991-1992 |
| Cheryl J. Briggs | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | The effect of multiple parasitoid species on the gall-forming midge, Rhopalomyia californica | UC Santa Barbara | 1991-1992 |
| Victoria Seidman | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | High marsh and transition zone initial restoration at Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve: a senior thesis | UC San Diego | 1991-1992 |
| Andrew R. Dyer | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Age determination of Stipa pulchra using proton microprobes and tree-ring correlation | UC Davis | 1991-1992 |
| Ernest W. Taylor | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Interference competition in heteromyid rodents: effect of exclusion of a dominant species on the activity of a subordinate species | UC Riverside | 1991-1992 |
| Theresa Stevens | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve (CSMR) | Shedding Patterns of Trematode Cercariae: Ecological Significance in Transmission to second Intermediate Hosts | UC Santa Barbara | 1991-1992 |
| Pamela J. MacKay | Motte Rimrock Reserve | The influence of Introduced species on a native ephemeral in a coastal sage scrub community | UC Riverside | 1991-1992 |
| Gary Alan Krupnick | Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve | The effect of herbivorous insects on the reproductive success of Isomeris arborea | UC Irvine | 1991-1992 |
| Susanna K. Remold | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | The effect of introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) on selection on floral characters | UC Irvine | 1991-1992 |
| Jesus Pineda | Scripps Coastal Reserve | Coarse and meso-scale patterns of settlementin the barnacle Chtamalus spp | UC San Diego | 1991-1992 |
| Joan Leong | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Pollination of a vernal pool plant in natural and recreated vernal pool habitats | UC Davis | 1992-1993 |
| Jeanne M. Messier | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Parental provisioning rules and the role of energetic begging displays in altricial nestlings | UC Santa Barbara | 1992-1993 |
| Jeff Crooks | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | The biological invastion of an estuarine ecosystem by an exotic bivalve, Muculista senhousia | UC San Diego | 1992-1993 |
| Elizabeth J. Lawlor | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Archaeobotanical Site-formation Processes in the Mojave Desert | UC Riverside | 1992-1993 |
| Steven Jon Waldron | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Meristic Trait Variation and Asymmetry in Isolated Populations of the Side-Blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana) | UC Santa Cruz | 1992-1993 |
| Adam Rosenberg | Younger Lagoon Reserve | Mammalian species diversity patterns at Younger Lagoon Natural Reserve | UC Santa Cruz | 1992-1993 |
| David Bruce Greenberg | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Overwintering strategies and seasonal movements of speckled rattlesnakes, Crotalus mitchellii, and red diamond rattlesnakes, C. ruber, in a warm, low-altitude desert | UC Santa Barbara | 1992-1993 |
| Brian L. Fisher | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Ant specificity to unique isolated habitats: A comparison of ant assemblages on serpentine and non-serpentine soils in McLaughlin Natural Reserve | UC Davis | 1992-1993 |
| Adrian Sun | Northern California Coast Range Preserve (NCCRP) | Lepidostoma and Dicosmoecus (Trichoptera) habitat plasticity in a Northern California stream | UC Berkeley | 1992-1993 |
| Mary F. Poteet | Northern California Coast Range Reserve | The effect of a Eurytomid gall on reproductive aoolcation between cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers in the native bunchgrass Danthonia californica | UC Berkeley | 1992-1993 |
| Christina Kate Meier | Northern California Coast Range Preserve (NCCRP) | Ontogenetic diet shifts in a riverine population of the rough skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) | UC Berkeley | 1992-1993 |
| John Carlos Garza | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Genetic structure and spatial distribution of a subdivided population of California voles (Microtus californicus) | UC Berkeley | 1992-1993 |
| Kathryn Thomas | Sedgwick Reserve | Flora of Sedgwick Ranch: initial checklist | UC Santa Barbara | 1992-1993 |
| Donna M. Schroeder | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | An experimental field evaluation of density-dependent growth in a temperate reef fish | UC Santa Barbara | 1992-1993 |
| Jennifer Henry | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Physical and chemical characteristics and distribution of aquatic invertebrates in a select group of thermal streams in the vicinity of Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | UC Santa Barbara | 1992-1993 |
| Alice C. Gibb | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Functional morphology of flatfish feeding | UC Irvine | 1992-1993 |
| John Cloud | Sedgwick Reserve | As within, so without: an experiemental field maping and data registration system for the Sedgwick Ranch Reserve | UC Santa Barbara | 1992-1993 |
| John Chapman | Younger Lagoon Reserve | Eradication Trials on Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum | UC Santa Cruz | 1992-1993 |
| Katherine Lee Muller | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | The role of conspecifics in habitat selection and territory establishment in the desert clicker, Ligurotettix coquilletti | UC Davis | 1993-1994 |
| Gary W. Roemer | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Molecular Genetic Analysis of Social Organization in the island fox | UC Los Angeles | 1993-1994 |
| John Maron | Bodega Marine Reserve | Effects of herbivory on the demography and population dynamics of Bush Lupine (Lupinus arboreus) | UC Davis | 1993-1994 |
| Tamara Fraizer | Sweeney Granite Mountains Reserve | Sexual Size Dimorphism in a Solitary Sand Wasp (Microbembex argyropleura): The Effects of Size on Male-male copmetition and female fecundity, and the Mediating Influences of Temperature | UC Davis | 1993-1994 |
| Melissa Bennett | Scripps Coastal Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, and Elliot Chaparral Reserve | Phylogenetic analysis of the Nearctic species of the ant genus Messor and its application to various aspects of their biology | UC Davis | 1993-1994 |
| Morgan James Hannaford | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Effects of a large, mobile, grazing caddisfly on the sessile macroinvertebrate community in a northern California stream | UC Berkeley | 1993-1994 |
| Swarup Eugene Wood | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Influence of Monoterpenes from Umbellularia californica (California Bay) litter on Nitrifying and Heterotrophic Soil Bacteria at Big Creek Reserve | UC Santa Cruz | 1993-1994 |
| John L. Sanders | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Humoral and Cellular Immunity in Northern Elephant seal Mothers and their Pups | UC Santa Cruz | 1993-1994 |
| Ann M. Munns | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Prehistoric bead production at Orizaba and Cueva Valdaze, Santa Cruz Island: Local resource availability and exchange | UC Santa Barbara | 1993-1994 |
| Laura Furlong | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Biogeography and ecology of streams on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 1993-1994 |
| David B. Greenberg | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Overwintering strategies and seasonal movements of speckled rattlesnakes, Crotalus mitchellii, and red diamond rattlesnakes, C. ruber, in a warm, low-altitude desert | UC Santa Barbara | 1993-1994 |
| Katherine Lee Muller | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | The role of conspecifics in habitat selection and territory establishment in the desert clicker, Ligurotettix coquilletti | UC Davis | 1993-1994 |
| Jeannette Alexandra Reich | Bodega Marine Reserve | The effects of phosphorus limitation on the primary productivity of a coastal shrub: Lupinus arboreus | UC Los Angeles | 1994-1995 |
| K. Kelly Moran | Hastings Natural History Reservation | The relationship between physiological performance and genetic variation among populations of the pocket gopher, Thomomys bottae | UC Santa Cruz | 1994-1995 |
| Miyoko Coco Chu | Boyd Deep Canyon Research Center, Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Delayed Plumage Maturation and Sociality in the Phainopepla: Coincidence or Connection? | UC Berkeley | 1994-1995 |
| Claudio DiBacco | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | Larval Exchange between an exposed Rocky Shore and a Sheltered Mudflat Population of the Striped Shore Crab, Pachygrapsus crassipes (Randall 1839), in Southern California | UC San Diego | 1994-1995 |
| Gerard P. Zegers | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Genetic Variation and the diversity of MHC in the valley pocket gopher | UC Santa Cruz | 1994-1995 |
| Carmen Bailey | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Factors Effecting Phenotpyic Plasticity in the Tail Morphology of Larval Pseudacris regilla | UC Berkeley | 1994-1995 |
| Andrew J. Brooks | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | An investigation into the mechanisms limiting distribution in two co-occurring salt marsh fishes | UC Santa Barbara | 1994-1995 |
| Gary W. Roemer | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Molecular Genetic Analysis of Social Organization in the Island Fox | UC Los Angeles | 1994-1995 |
| Kenneth J. Halama | Motte Rimrock Reserve | The causes of intrapopulation variation in limb morphology and locomotor performance in the western fence lizard. | UC Riverside | 1994-1995 |
| Jeff Kennedy | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Plant-Climate Modelling of the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Vegetation at Landscape Scales in Mediterranean Coastal California | UC Davis | 1994-1995 |
| Jeannette Alexandra Reich | Bodega Marine Reserve | The effects of herbivory on the nutrient availability and ecophysiology of a dominant coastal shrub: Lupinus arboreus | UC Los Angeles | 1995-1996 |
| Lara Annette Ferry | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Feeding Kinematics of the Swellshark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum: A Challenge to the Ecomorphological Paradigm? | UC Irvine | 1995-1996 |
| Peter C. Trenham | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Investigating the Applicatbility of Metapopulation Theory for Pond-Breeding Amphibians | UC Davis | 1995-1996 |
| John Maron | Bodega Marine Reserve | Population consequences of heavy insect herbivory on bush lupine (Lupinus arboreus) | UC Davis | 1995-1996 |
| Jason G. Hamilton | Sedgwick Reserve | Interference between a native perennial grass and naturalized exotic annual grasses in a California grassland | UC Santa Barbara | 1995-1996 |
| Miyoko Coco Chu | Boyd Deep Canyon Research Center, Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | The dual breeding range of the phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens): Do vocalizations and timing of molt suggest different populations | UC Berkeley | 1995-1996 |
| Michael J. Wangler | Sweeney Granite Mountains Reserve | Exotic grass invasions: Implications for fire, succession, and ecosystem stability in the east Mojave Desert of California | UC Riverside | 1995-1996 |
| Suzanne Kohin | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | The development of the regulation of diving and aerobic capacity in northern elephant seal pups | UC Santa Cruz | 1995-1996 |
| Sanjayan Muttulingam | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Genetics, physiology, and fitness in natural populations of pocket gophers: Implications for conservation | UC Santa Cruz | 1995-1996 |
| Leonard S. Sklar | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Controls on channel gradient in mixed | UC Berkeley | 1995-1996 |
| Anne Elizabeth Fetscher | Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve | Functional ecology of the touch-sensitive stigma in the bush monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus (Scrophulariaceae) | UC San Diego | 1995-1996 |
| Dorian S. Houser | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Urea turnover during suckling and fasting bouts in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris) |
UC Santa Cruz | 1995-1996 |
| Kristina Gill | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Relative Importance of Plant Resources Through Time on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 1996-1997 |
| Lori Hargrove | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Avian response to ecological gradients: variation in bird-habitat relationships along an elevational gradient | UC Riverside | 1996-1997 |
| Katherine Pease | Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Evolution of anti-predator defenses in a native frog in response to an invasive crayfish | UC Los Angeles | 1996-1997 |
| Brittany Enzmann | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Resource investment, storage protein gene expression, and phenotypic plasticity in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants that vary in colony founding strategy | UC Los Angeles | 1996-1997 |
| Hilary M. Swarts | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Mechanism behind diurnal activity changes of Santa Cruz Island Foxes (Urocyon littoralis): A possible long-term anti-predator defense for a naive, endangered species or a density dependent behavioral shift? | UC Davis | 1996-1997 |
| Christopher Searcy | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Conservation of Terrestrial Habitat for California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma Californiense) | UC Davis | 1996-1997 |
| Barbara M. Going | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve McLaughlin Natural Reserve Sedgwick Reserve | The effects of climate, soil type, and competition on the success of serpentine endemics | UC Davis | 1996-1997 |
| William W. Dowd | Bodega Marine Laboratory / Reserve | Limits to Ecophysiological Plasticity in Dynamic Environments? Integrated Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Salinity Challenges in Estuarine Sharks | UC Davis | 1996-1997 |
| Adam B. Smith | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of the Species-Area Relationship from Serpentine Habitats | UC Berkeley | 1996-1997 |
| Amy Gusick | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Early Maritime Hunter-Gatherer Occupation and the Initial Human Migration into the New World, Santa Cruz Island, California | UC Santa Barbara | 1996-1997 |
| Matthew MacManes | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Interactions between infectious disease, genetic diversity, and mating systems | UC Berkeley | 1996-1997 |
| Michael C. Vasey | Fort Ord Natural Reserve | What is the relationship between coastal fog and maritime chaparral? | UC Santa Cruz | 1996-1997 |
| Kris Hulvey | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | The effect of native forb abundance on invasion resistance: Using a native tarweed (Hemizonia congesta spp. luzulifolia) to manage yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) in California grasslands | UC Santa Cruz | 1996-1997 |
| Holly Alpert | Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve SNARL | Snow depth and microhabitat effects on Pinus jeffreyi establishment at a conifer forest-sagebrush steppe ecotone | UC Santa Cruz | 1996-1997 |
| Jennifer Skene | Bodega Marine Laboratory / Reserve | The Ecology, Distribution and Morphology of the Intertidal Alga Pelvetiopsis Limitata | UC Berkeley | 1996-1997 |
| Ross D. Hartleb | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy as a Means for Correlating deformed Marine Terraces to Calculate Uplift Rates | UC Santa Barbara | 1997-1998 |
| Pamela Yeh | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | The Invasion of the Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, into an Urban Area: Adaptation and Differentiation in a Novel Habitat | UC San Diego | 1997-1998 |
| Robert Rhew | Scripps Coastal Reserve, Elliott Chaparral Reserve, Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | The production and consumption of methyl bromide and methyl chloride by the terrestrial biosphere | UC San Diego | 1997-1998 |
| Jana Davis | Scripps Coastal Reserve | Recruitment Pattern and Process: Mechanisms of Habitat Partitioning in Sympatric Intertidal fishes | UC San Diego | 1997-1998 |
| William B. Kristan | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Linking habitat choice to population dynamics in heterogeneous habitats: Sources, sinks, and ecological traps | UC Riverside | 1997-1998 |
| Kathleen Semple | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | An experimental investigation of factors affecting renesting in sage grouse | UC Los Angeles | 1997-1998 |
| Catherine Kleier | Bodega Marine Reserve | Evolution of the cushion morphology of plants in response to environmental stresses | UC Los Angeles | 1997-1998 |
| Tanya E. Finney | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Maintenance of genetic variation in populations of desert annual Phacelias; seed bank dynamics, temporal variation in selection and habitat choice | UC Irvine | 1997-1998 |
| Peter Trenham | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Inter-Pond Migration in Salamander Metapopulations: Characterization of Natural rates and Experimental Manipulations | UC Davis | 1997-1998 |
| Jennifer A. Rudgers | Bodega Marine Reserve and Landels-Hill Big Creek reserve | Parasitoids and plant architecture: Do natural enemies act as agents of selection on plant genotypes in Baccaris pilularis? | UC Davis | 1997-1998 |
| Adrianna P. Smyth | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | The role of spatial and temporal variability in aquatic insect production in determining the abundance and distribution of a terrestrial carnivore | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Marjorie Denise Matocq | Hastings Natural History Reservation and the Sweeney Granite Mountains Reserve | Molecular genetics of dusky-footed woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes): linking mating patterns and phylogeography | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Jonathan Levine | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | The interaction of competition and herbivory in a Northern California riparian plant community | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Miyoko Chu | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | The function of vocal imitation in distress calls: a test of the audience attraction hypothesis. | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Nicholas Brozovic | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Evaluation of airborne laser altimetry as a topographic, geomorphologic and ecological mapping tool. | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Paola Bernazzani | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Bat ecology and natural History on the UC Angelo Reserve | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Diane Thomson | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | The Impacts of Introduced Honey bees on native Bees and Pollination Systems | UC Santa Cruz | 1997-1998 |
| Molly A. Trecker | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy as a Means for Correlating deformed Marine Terraces to Calculate Uplift Rates | UC Santa Barbara | 1997-1998 |
| Todd C. Huspeni | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Using trematode communities to assess the broad scale, long term success of a wetland restoration proje | UC Santa Barbara | 1997-1998 |
| Faraneh Chamran | Sedgwick Reserve | An explicit treatment of Topography in Soil carbon Modeling | UC Santa Barbara | 1997-1998 |
| Larry D. Gurrola | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy as a Means for Correlating deformed Marine Terraces to Calculate Uplift Rates | UC Santa Barbara | 1997-1998 |
| Vance Vredenburg | Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab | An investigation into the role of olfaction as an antipredator defense by the mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa). | UC Berkeley | 1997-1998 |
| Ragan Callaway | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Salt marsh vegetation patterns | UC Santa Barbara | 1998-1999 |
| Gwendolyn Bachman | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Energetic cost of begging in house wrens (Troglodytes aedon). Animal Behaviour | UC Los Angeles | 1998-1999 |
| Gretchen Barrow North | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Patterns of water stress-induced embolism and recovery in three arid-land vines in the Cucurbitaceae | UC Los Angeles | 1998-1999 |
| Craig L. Frank | Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve and the San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve | The relationship between diet, depot fat composition, and the evolution of hibernation in Sciuridae | UC Irvine | 1998-1999 |
| Stephen R. Wing | Bodega Marine Reserve | Physical forcing in the intertidal zone; mechanisms for enhanced primary production | UC Berkeley | 1998-1999 |
| Amos Bouskila | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Effect of Predation Risk from a Snake on the Micro-Habitat Utilization of Desert Rodents | UC Berkeley | 1998-1999 |
| Kim William Kratz | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Colonization dynamics: Resource levels, intraspecific interactions and predator impacts on prey populations | UC Santa Barbara | 1998-1999 |
| Adrian Laurence O’Loghlen | Valentine Camp | Vocal Ontogeny and the Maintenance of Dialects in the Brown-headed Cowbird | UC Santa Barbara | 1998-1999 |
| Jane Claire Marks | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Experimental studies of epiphytic algae in the Eel River | UC Berkeley | 1998-1999 |
| Steven Pennings | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Salt Marsh vegetation patterns | UC Santa Barbara | 1998-1999 |
| Stephen M. Secor | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Foraging mode as a determinant of energy expenditure in desert snakes | UC Los Angeles | 1998-1999 |
| Steven R. Morey | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) | Developmental Plasticity and Life-history Evolution in Spadefoot Toads | UC Riverside | 1998-1999 |
| Ragan Callaway | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Salt Marsh vegetation patterns | UC Santa Barbara | 1998-1999 |
| Peter F. Paige | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | The Development of Middle Period Fishing Practices of the Island Chumash | UC Santa Barbara | 1999-2000 |
| Emmanuel J. Gabet | Sedgwick Reserve | Sediment Transport Processes in a Semi-Arid Landscape | UC Santa Barbara | 1999-2000 |
| Noah G. Fierer | Sedgwick Reserve | The effects of periodic rainfall events on soil microbial processes and microbial community structure at the Sedgwick Reserve | UC San Diego | 1999-2000 |
| Matthew A. Streisfeld | Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Elliott Chaparral Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Bodega Marine Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, and Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Maintenance of floral variation in the Mimulus aurantiacus species complex | UC San Diego | 1999-2000 |
| Yvonne C. Moore | Motte Rimrock Reserve | The Relationship Between Food Availability and Population Abundance of Kangaroo Rats, Diposomys spp. | UC Riverside | 1999-2000 |
| Dawn Page Noren | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Body Reserve Utilization Strategies During the Postweaning Fast of Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostis): Implications for Survivorship at the Año Nuevo Natural Reserve | UC Santa Cruz | 1999-2000 |
| Aviva Liebert | Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Division of labor and reproduction in Polistes wasps | UC Los Angeles | 1999-2000 |
| Lisa Ann DiGirolamo | Fort Ord Natural Reserve | The effects of Argentine ant invasions on plant community composition. | UC Santa Cruz | 1999-2000 |
| Jason Hoeksema | Bodega Marine Reserve | Interactions among above- and below-ground herbivores: Impact on Fitness of an Annual Plant, Lupinus nanus | UC Davis | 1999-2000 |
| James Andrew Fordyce | Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve | Mortality, growth, and behavioral consequences of gregarious feeding in the California pipevine swallowtail | UC Davis | 1999-2000 |
| April M. Boulton | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Ants as allochthonous vehicles for aboveground transport: Impacts on belowground foodwebs | UC Davis | 1999-2000 |
| Meredith Thomsen | Bodega Marine Reserve | Influence of arbuscular mccorrhizal fungi on invasion of north coast prairie by the exotic perennial grass Holcus lanatus | UC Berkeley | 1999-2000 |
| Paul A. Aigner | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Geographic variation in pollinator-mediated selection within the Dudleya caespitosa species complex: evidence for the role of pollinators in floral divergence and plant speciation | UC Riverside | 1999-2000 |
| Thomas S. Hofstra | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, Valentine Camp, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, and Hastings Natural History Reservation | Molecular ecology of wetwood: relationships between host variables and prokaryote community composition | UC Santa Cruz | 1999-2000 |
| Todd A. Haney | Quail Ridge Reserve | The Leptostraca of coastal California: a survey based on morphologial and molecular evidence. | UC Los Angeles | 1999-2000 |
| Joy Anna Hagen | Younger Lagoon Reserve | The role of insects in regulating invasive weeds: Populations of Brassica weeds on the Central Coast | UC Santa Cruz | 2000-2001 |
| Lisa A. DiGirolamo | Fort Ord Natural Reserve | Effects of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) on grassland community structure | UC Santa Cruz | 2000-2001 |
| Sean Mark Watts | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | The evolutionary response of plants to root herbivory | UC Santa Barbara | 2000-2001 |
| Stephanie Romanach | Sedgwick Reserve | The influence of body size, resource abundance, and social interactions on movement patterns | UC Santa Barbara | 2000-2001 |
| John P. LaBonte | Sedgwick Reserve | Ontogeny of Foraging Behavior in the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis helleri) | UC Santa Barbara | 2000-2001 |
| Abby Glenn Sirulnik | Motte Rimrock Reserve, Box Springs Reserve, and Emerson Oaks Reserve | Effects of Nitrogen Deposition on Nutrient Cycling in Exotic Annual Grasslands and Chaparral Communities in Southern California | UC Riverside | 2000-2001 |
| Amy E. Lindahl | Emerson Oaks Reserve | Seasonal and spatial shifts in patterns of ecto- and arbuscular mycorrhizae associated with coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) and grasslands in a southern California ecosystem | UC Riverside | 2000-2001 |
| Sharon J. Coe | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | How does water availability affect reproductive success in desert birds? A test using water supplementation in the Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza billineata deserticola) | UC Riverside | 2000-2001 |
| Kristina D. Louie | Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | The effect of different reproductive strategies on the gentic variation of eastern Pacific eelgrass taxa: a focus on the bay pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) | UC Los Angeles | 2000-2001 |
| Aviva Liebert | Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Reproductive Flexibility in the paper wasp Polistes aurifer | UC Los Angeles | 2000-2001 |
| Teresa Jolene Brennan | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | Post-Fire Succession and Persistence of Chaparral Forest Ecotone in the San Jacinto Mountains of California | UC Los Angeles | 2000-2001 |
| Evan Preisser | Bodega Marine Reserve | Moisture-mediated interactions in a two-predator trophic cascade | UC Davis | 2000-2001 |
| Brooke Weaver | Fort Ord Natural Reserve | Demographic change s of Coast horned lizards, Phrynosoma coronatum, in response to a biological invader, the Argentine ant, Linepitherma humile | UC Santa Cruz | 2000-2001 |
| Michael A. Kennedy | Bodega Marine Reserve | Invertebrate Remains from Bodega Bay, California: Implications for the Evolution of Marine Subsistence Intesification | UC Davis | 2000-2001 |
| Amy L. Freestone | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Serpentine seep plant communities: A definition, delineation, and use in testing local, regional, and differential diversity patterns | UC Davis | 2000-2001 |
| Collin A. Eagles-Smith | Eagle Lake Biological Field Station | Effects of Food Web Complexity on the Biomagnification of Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems | UC Davis | 2000-2001 |
| Maria M. Soares | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Social organization of California voles (Microtus californicus): its implications for the evolution of mammalian sociality | UC Berkeley | 2000-2001 |
| Lisa Grubisha | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Analysis of gene flow in mainland and island populations of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Rhizopogon rubescens | UC Berkeley | 2000-2001 |
| Kenwyn Blakeslee Suttle | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Consequences of altered hydrologic regimes for a North Coast California Grassland Community | UC Berkeley | 2000-2001 |
| Mary Brooke McEachern | Eagle Lake Biological Field Station | The Genetic Consequences of Mating System Variation in the Dusky-footed Woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) | UC Davis | 2000-2001 |
| Yuri Springer | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Causes and Consequences of Spatial Variation in a Plant-parasite Interaction | UC Santa Cruz | 2001-2002 |
| Kathleen L. Whitney | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Endoparasite Infection in Wetland-Associated Birds: Ecological Aspects and Fitness Consequences | UC Santa Barbara | 2001-2002 |
| Sophie Parker | Sedgwick Reserve | Nitrogen losses from native perennial and exotic annual grasslands in California | UC Santa Barbara | 2001-2002 |
| William Kuhn | Sedgwick Reserve | Declining populations of valley oak: relationship of falling density and fruit production | UC Santa Barbara | 2001-2002 |
| Christopher N. Janousek | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | Spatial patterns and functional impacts of benthic algal diversity in a southern California wetland system | UC San Diego | 2001-2002 |
| Matthew T. Craig | Scripps Coastal Reserve | The near-shore marine fish assemblage of the Scripps Coastal Reserve | UC San Diego | 2001-2002 |
| Thomas M. Unfried | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Effects of different land-use types on coastal sage scrub breeding birds | UC Riverside | 2001-2002 |
| Ammon Corl | Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, and Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | The Evolution of Uta stansburiana’s Behavioral Diversity; a Phylogeographic Study | UC Santa Cruz | 2001-2002 |
| Norah Haldeman | San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve | Migration Song: An Artistic Exploration of the San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh and its Place on the Pacific Flyway | UC Los Angeles | 2001-2002 |
| Ashleigh B. Smythe | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Species delimitation and population genetic structure among sympatric species of Acrobeles (Nematoda) | UC Davis | 2001-2002 |
| Amber J. Mace | Bodega Marine Reserve | Characterizing nearshore habitats based on ocean circulation, larval retention, and benthic community structure: implications for designing marine reserves | UC Davis | 2001-2002 |
| Michael F. Benard | Quail Ridge Reserve | Natural selection, dispersal, and local adaptation in Pacific treefrogs (Hyla regilla) | UC Davis | 2001-2002 |
| Elowyn Yager | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Flow and sediment transport in steep, rough streams | UC Berkeley | 2001-2002 |
| Wyatt Korff | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Comparative biomechanics of sand locomotion in lizards | UC Berkeley | 2001-2002 |
| Sarah Elizabeth May | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | The Importance of Drifting Meiofauna to Net-Spinning Filter-Feeding Caddisfly Larvae | UC Los Angeles | 2001-2002 |
| Cynthia G. Hays | Bodega Marine Reserve | The roles of dispersal, gene flow and local adaptation in determining the distribution of Silvetia copmressa (rockweed) at different spatial scales | UC Santa Cruz | 2001-2002 |
| Aaron P. Gabbe | Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve and Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) | Why do hummingbird-pollinated plants produce dilute nectar ? Plant fitness tradeoffs between nectar concentration and pollination | UC Santa Cruz | 2002-2003 |
| Sarah Cunningham | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Natal dispersal and female reproductive tactics in the dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) | UC Berkeley | 2002-2003 |
| Jenny C. Shaw | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve and Coal Oil Point Reserve | Neurobiological Mechanisms of Host Behavior Modification in the California Killifish | UC Santa Barbara | 2002-2003 |
| Debra Klepeis | Sedgwick Reserve | Historical cultivation and its effects on soil properties and present plant communities in California grasslands | UC Santa Barbara | 2002-2003 |
| Terry L. Joslin | Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve | Evaluating Prehistoric Land and Resource use along the Cambria Coastline | UC Santa Barbara | 2002-2003 |
| Yiping Cao | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Connecting the significance of biofilm as a growth mode for esturarine bacteria with excess nutrient loading | UC Santa Barbara | 2002-2003 |
| Boris Igic | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Gender dimorphism on the background of self-incompatibility in Lycium californicum (Solanaceae) | UC San Diego | 2002-2003 |
| James Russell | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Wolbachia frequency and distribution within and among Trichogramma wasp species | UC Los Angeles | 2002-2003 |
| Kenneth C. Welch Jr. | Valentine Camp | The Effects of Ambient Temperature and Altitude on the Hovering Metabolic Rate and Territorial Aggression in Rufous Hummingbirds (Selaphorus rufus) | UC Santa Barbara | 2002-2003 |
| Andrew C. McCall | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | The effects of induced resistance on floral damage and reproduction in Nicotiana attenuata | UC Davis | 2002-2003 |
| Karen E. Mabry | Quail Ridge Reserve | Dispersal and habitat selection by deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus: Does early expoerience affect habitat selection by dispersers ? | UC Davis | 2002-2003 |
| Kit Batten | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | The role of soil microorganisms in invasion of California serpentine grasslands | UC Davis | 2002-2003 |
| Justin Bastow | Bodega Marine Reserve | Processing Chain Dynamics in a Grassland Detrital Food Web | UC Davis | 2002-2003 |
| Bryce Wolcott | Bodega Marine Reserve | Metabolic scaling and fluid transport in a marine sponge | UC Berkeley | 2002-2003 |
| Alden Griffith | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Effects of climate change and grazing on the invasive grass Bromus tectorum | UC Santa Cruz | 2002-2003 |
| Stephanie Yelenik | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Priority Effects in Native Plant Reinvasion of California Alien Annual Grasslands | UC Los Angeles | 2002-2003 |
| Sarah Elmendorf and Amy Freestone | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Interactions between a hemiparasitic invader and recipient grassland communities | UC Davis | 2003-2004 |
| Kara Moore | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Interacting effects of propagule limitation, habitat restriction, competition, and the spatial distribution of Lupinus nanus | UC Davis | 2003-2004 |
| Leo Szumel | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Investigation of soil moisture and surface temperature effects on erodium species invasion in serpentine outcrop-to-valley-bottom slopes using wireless sensor networks | UC Davis | 2003-2004 |
| Yuan Yao | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation | Vocalization and social behavior of the acorn woodpecker based on a remote sensor network | UC Los Angeles | 2003-2004 |
| Shannon Kirshtner | Motte Rimrock Reserve | The influence of urban land use on edge effects in California coastal sage scrub | UC Riverside | 2003-2004 |
| Leslie Turner | Hastings Natural History Reservation | The genetics of speciation: evolution of reproductive proteins in monogamous and promiscuous species of Peromyscus | UC San Diego | 2003-2004 |
| Jessica Dutton | Bodega Marine Reserve | Interspecific seasonal and microhabitat expression of biochemical stress indicators: relative patterns in the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and its native cognener Mytilus trossulus | UC Santa Barbara | 2003-2004 |
| Julie Simpson | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve | Effects of nutrient enrichment on the relationship between a parasitic plant and its hosts | UC Santa Barbara | 2003-2004 |
| Lee R. Harrison | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Influence of large boulder constriction of two-dimensional flow structure along an experimental semi-natural pool | UC Santa Barbara | 2003-2004 |
| Sarah K. Henkel | Bodega Marine Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | Morphological and ecological divergence of the intertidal kelp, Egregia menziesii (Tuner) Areschoug | UC Santa Barbara | 2003-2004 |
| Kenneth C. Welch, Jr. | Valentine Camp, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Maximizing weight gain in migrating rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)- costs of hovering flight as a function of altitude and temperature And Influences On Decisions To Use Torpor. | UC Santa Barbara | 2003-2004 |
| Elise D. Ferree | Sagehen Creek Field Station | The influence of mate attractiveness on maternal investment in two populations of Oregon juncos | UC Santa Cruz | 2003-2004 |
| Katherine A. Horjus | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Structure of multispecific coevolution: interaction of related pairs of Lithophragma and Greya in California | UC Santa Cruz | 2003-2004 |
| Carey E. Kuhn | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Feeding events revealed to understand the foraging ecology of the Northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) | UC Santa Cruz | 2003-2004 |
| Jennifer Skene | Bodega Marine Reserve | Intertidal algae in a changing climate: the physiological effects of photosynthetically active radiation, ultraviolet-B radiation, and intraspecific facilitation | UC Berkeley | 2003-2004 |
| Sandra Roll | Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | The effect of boundary layer mixing on phytoplankton and bacterial productivity in Mono Lake, California | UC Santa Cruz | 2004-2005 |
| Elise Ferree | Sagehen Creek Field Station | The influence of mate attractiveness on maternal investment in Oregon juncos | UC Santa Cruz | 2004-2005 |
| Robin Pelc | Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Bodega Marine Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | The influence of dispersal regime on larval export of intertidal spcies in California | UC San Diego | 2004-2005 |
| Jeff Howarth | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Modeling the human use of space: historical ranching on the Santa Cruz Island Reserve | UC San Diego | 2004-2005 |
| Donald Burnette | Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve | Frederic E. Clements: The Evolution of American Ecology | UC San Diego | 2004-2005 |
| Serena Moseman | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | A new perspective of Kendall-Frost: Wetland plants engage nitrogen-fixing microbes | UC San Diego | 2004-2005 |
| Susana Peluc | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | The role of nest predation in shaping nest site selection and clutch size in songbirds | UC Riverside | 2004-2005 |
| Lori Hargrove | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Avian response to ecological gradients: variation in bird-habitat relationships along an elevational gradient | UC Riverside | 2004-2005 |
| Benjamin Rossi | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Male sexual coercion and female resistance in a haplodiploid bee | UC Irvine | 2004-2005 |
| Mackenzie Zippay | Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve | A latitudinal comparison of thermal tolerance and gene expression patterns in Nucella larvae. | UC San Diego | 2004-2005 |
| Adrian Rocha | San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve | Understanding Annual Variability in CO2 Exchange in a Freshwater Marsh: a Bottom-up and Top-down Approach | UC Irvine | 2004-2005 |
| Louie Yang | Sagehen Creek Field Station | How do below ground herbivores and rainfall pulses affect Sierra Nevada meadow plant communities and above ground herbivores? | UC Davis | 2004-2005 |
| Adrianna Muir | Bodega Marine Reserve | Holcus lanatus invasion mechanisms: investigation of enemy-release and allelopathy at Bodega Marine Reserve | UC Davis | 2004-2005 |
| Brooke Jacobs | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Investigation of the role of local genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity in the invasion of serpentine soil habitats by the exotic species, Erodium cicutarium. | UC Davis | 2004-2005 |
| Erin Espeland | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Environmental effects on effective population size of plantago erecta. | UC Davis | 2004-2005 |
| Maria Goodrich | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Spatial and temporal shifts in the nature of the relationship between algae and heterotrophic bacteria in stream biofilms | UC Berkeley | 2004-2005 |
| Theresa Chuang | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Integrating experimental and gradient methods with land use history to predict shifts in species ranges: A case study in the western Sierra Nevada | UC Berkeley | 2004-2005 |
| Rebecca Anderson | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | A high resolution reconstruction of late Pleistocene climate change at Santa Cruz Island, California | UC Berkeley | 2004-2005 |
| Krikor Andonian | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Mycorrhizal networks and the maintenace of a threatened ecological community: California’s Oak Woodlands. | UC Santa Cruz | 2004-2005 |
| Rachel Kennison | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Factors controlling macroalgal blooms in Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara, California | UC Irvine | 2004-2005 |
| Grant Yip | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Geological mapping and thermal history of high-grade metamorphic clasts in Miocene strata on Santa Cruz Island. | UC San Diego | 2004-2005 |
| Alden Griffith | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Impacts of snow depth and microhabitat on Bromus tectorum growth and demography | UC Santa Cruz | 2005-2006 |
| Thomas J. Devitt | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | The Ensatina eschscholtzii Complex Revisited: Understanding the Origin, Development, and Maintenance of Isolating Barriers in a Ring Species | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Holly Alpert | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Shifting ecotones and implications for natural areas and water use in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California | UC Santa Cruz | 2005-2006 |
| Mackenzie Zippay | Bodega Marine Reserve, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve | A latitudinal comparison of thermal tolerance and gene expression patterns in Nucella larvae. | UC Santa Barbara | 2005-2006 |
| George P. Thomson | Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve | A description of seed bed and seed rain in two coastal California grasslands and implications for native grassland restoration and removal of the invasive, exotic Harding grass (Phalaris aquatica L.) | UC Santa Barbara | 2005-2006 |
| Elizabeth A. Sutton | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Shifting interior settlement strategies and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity on Santa Cruz Island, California | UC Santa Barbara | 2005-2006 |
| Lee Harrison | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Three-dimensional hydraulics and sediment transport patterns along pool-riffle sequences | UC Santa Barbara | 2005-2006 |
| Heather Coleman | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve | Development of diagnostic indicators for organic enrichment and toxic contamination in temperate estuaries | UC Santa Barbara | 2005-2006 |
| Timothy Paape | Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Population genetics and molecular evolution of self-incompatibility in the Papaveraceae family | UC San Diego | 2005-2006 |
| Rodrigo Vargas | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | Estimation of root turnover using minirhizotrons, 14C and soil sensor arrays. | UC Riverside | 2005-2006 |
| Kimberly Pollard | Sedgwick Reserve | The coevolution of group size and individual distinctiveness in sciurid alarm calls | UC Los Angeles | 2005-2006 |
| Thomas R. Huggins | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Gall morphology and distribution in the Asphondylia auripila group (Cecidomiidae) on creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) | UC Los Angeles | 2005-2006 |
| Melissa M. Gray | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Dwarfism in the Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis) | UC Los Angeles | 2005-2006 |
| Brittany Enzmann | Motte Rimrock Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Queen investment and implications for colony founding in harvester ants | UC Los Angeles | 2005-2006 |
| Sarah Bryson | Bodega Marine Laboratory/Reserve | The effect of an epiphytic bryozoan on kelp herbivores | UC Los Angeles | 2005-2006 |
| David LeBauer | Sedgwick Reserve | Decomposition responses to nitrogen in a California grassland | UC Irvine | 2005-2006 |
| Leah Goldstein | San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve | Invasion into coastal sage scrub: the role of resource use traits of the invader and the invaded community | UC Irvine | 2005-2006 |
| Hilary M. Swarts | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Circadian temporal activity of the Santa Cruz Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis): A possible newfound anti-predator defense for a naive, endangered species | UC Davis | 2005-2006 |
| Jenna Shinen | Bodega Marine Reserve | Exotic species invasion and parasitism: quantifying the community level effects of multiple stressors on foundation species in the rocky intertidal. | UC Davis | 2005-2006 |
| Karthik Ram | Bodega Marine Laboratory/Reserve | How does rhizosphere type, seasonal moisture and site variation affect survival of Heterohabditis marelatus | UC Davis | 2005-2006 |
| Julie Baker | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Fog contributions of pedogenesis and hydrology in Pinus muricata ecosystems of Santa Cruz Island | UC Davis | 2005-2006 |
| Jennifer Zipser Adjemian | Sagehen Creek Field Station | The maintenance and ecology of enzootic plague, Yersinia pestis, in California | UC Davis | 2005-2006 |
| Nicole VanderSal | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Effects of substrate heterogeneity on jumping spider learning of multimodal prey cues | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Nicole Vaillant | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Fire History of Sagehen Creek Basin, Truckee, California | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Adam B. Smith | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of the Species-Area Relationship from Serpentine Habitats | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Kevin Simonin | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | The influence of tree size and atmospheric drought on the water use of Sequoia sempervirens | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Shannon M. Peters | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Examining the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in plant adaptation to serpentine soil | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Michael Limm | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Role of Pacific Lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) in a River Ecosystem | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Emily Limm | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | An Investigation of the Foliar Fungal Community in the Canopies of Sequoia sempervirens | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Chad Hanson | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Steelhead Life History Strategies and Early Habitat Use | UC Santa Cruz | 2005-2006 |
| Christopher James Clark | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Display dives of the Santa Cruz Island hummingbirds | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Theresa Chuang | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Understanding shifts of species ranges in response to climate change: A case study in the Sierra Nevada mountains | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Lauryn Benedict | Hastings Natural History Reservation | Partner communication via duets in California Towhees | UC Berkeley | 2005-2006 |
| Kendra Karr | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve | Determining the importance of the kelp forest canopy for nursery habitats and marine biodiversity | UC Santa Cruz | 2005-2006 |
| Melissa M. Foley | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Effects of terrestrial inputs on nearshore Macrocystis communities | UC Santa Cruz | 2005-2006 |
| Christopher Searcy | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Conservation of terrestrial habitat for California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma californiense) | UC Davis | 2006-2007 |
| Michael C. Vasey | Fort Ord Natural Reserve | What is the relationship between coastal fog and maritime chaparral? | UC Santa Cruz | 2006-2007 |
| Hilary M. Swarts | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Mechanism behind diurnal activity changes of Santa Cruz Island Foxes (Urocyon littoralis): A possible long-term anti-predator defense for a naive, endangered species or a density dependent behavioral shift? | UC Berkeley | 2006-2007 |
| Lori Hargrove | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Avian response to ecological gradients: variation in bird-habitat relationships along an elevational gradient | UC Riverside | 2006-2007 |
| Katherine Pease | Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Evolution of anti-predator defenses in a native frog in response to an invasive crayfish | UC Los Angeles | 2006-2007 |
| Brittany Enzmann | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Resource investment, storage protein gene expression, and phenotypic plasticity in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants that vary in colony founding strategy | UC Los Angeles | 2006-2007 |
| Kris Hulvey | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | The effect of native forb abundance on invasion resistance: Using a native tarweed (Hemizonia congesta spp. luzulifolia) to manage yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) in California grasslands | UC Santa Cruz | 2006-2007 |
| Amy Gusick | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Early Maritime Hunter-Gatherer Occupation and the Initial Human Migration into the New World, Santa Cruz Island, California | UC Santa Barbara | 2006-2007 |
| William W. Dowd | Bodega Marine Reserve | Limits to Ecophysiological Plasticity in Dynamic Environments? Integrated Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Salinity Challenges in Estuarine Sharks | UC Berkeley | 2006-2007 |
| Adam B. Smith | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of the Species-Area Relationship from Serpentine Habitats | UC Berkeley | 2006-2007 |
| Jennifer Skene | Bodega Marine Reserve | The Ecology, Distribution and Morphology of the Intertidal Alga Pelvetiopsis Limitata | UC Berkeley | 2006-2007 |
| Matthew MacManes | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Interactions between infectious disease, genetic diversity, and mating systems | UC Berkeley | 2006-2007 |
| Holly Alpert | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Snow depth and microhabitat effects on Pinus jeffreyi establishment at a conifer forest-sagebrush steppe ecotone | UC Santa Cruz | 2006-2007 |
| Barbara M. Going | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | The effects of climate, soil type, and competition on the success of serpentine endemics | UC Berkeley | 2006-2007 |
| Kristina Gill | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Relative Importance of Plant Resources Through Time on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 2006-2007 |
| Kris Hulvey | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Do losses of native competitors make California grasslands more vulnerable to yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) invasion? | UC Santa Cruz | 2007-2008 |
| Christopher Searcy | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Trophic cascades and the diversity-stability debate: insights from the California tiger salamander | UC Davis | 2007-2008 |
| Karen Stahlheber | Sedgwick Reserve | Natural heterogeneity and invasion reservoirs: the role of oak trees in Califorina grasslands | UC Santa Barbara | 2007-2008 |
| Thomas Smith | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Effects of Disease Induced Amphibian Declines on Alpine Lake Algal and Macroinvertebrate Communities | UC Santa Barbara | 2007-2008 |
| Nicole Molinari | Sedgwick Reserve | Native vs. non-native grassland species: Who will win under future global change scenarios? | UC Santa Barbara | 2007-2008 |
| Martin Turcotte | Motte Reserve | The Intra- and Interspecific Impact of Evolutionary-Feedback in the Wild: A Theoretical and Experimental Assessment | UC Riverside | 2007-2008 |
| Christopher Briggs | Box Springs Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve | Seed Preferences of the Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus | UC Riverside | 2007-2008 |
| Megan Burke | Sagehen Creek Field Station | The effects of prescribed burn treatments on metal and contaminant mobilization and transport in the Sagehen Creek watershed. | UC Los Angeles | 2007-2008 |
| Blair Mclaughlin | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | A History of Salmon in Ancient Tree Cores | UC Santa Cruz | 2007-2008 |
| Stephanie Porter | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Patterns of partnership and local adaptation in a native and invasive legume-rhizobia symbiosis on and off serpentine soil | UC Davis | 2007-2008 |
| Morgan Kelly | Bodega Marine Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | Evolutionary response to climate change? Factors controlling among and within pool genetic variance for thermal tolerance in the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus | UC Davis | 2007-2008 |
| Joseph Sapp | Sagehen Creek Field Station | The behavioral ecology of slavemaking ants | UC Santa Cruz | 2007-2008 |
| Heather Thakar Hucks | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | An Analysis of Seasons of Occupation for Selected Prehistoric Chumash Settlement Sites on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 2007-2008 |
| Adrienne B. Mora | Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | Can parasites enhance components of host fitness? Host manipulation of a sexual signal in the California fiddler crab, Uca crenulata | UC Riverside | 2008-2009 |
| Emily Rivest | Bodega Marine Reserve | The effect of pH stress during upwelling events on Strongylocentrotus purpuratus gene expression | UC Santa Barbara | 2008-2009 |
| Melinda Fowler | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Lipid mobilization in simultaneously fasting and lactating northern elephant seals | UC Santa Cruz | 2008-2009 |
| Erin Mordecai | Sedgwick Reserve | Do exotic grasses mediate plant-pathogen dynamics in California grasslands? | UC Santa Barbara | 2008-2009 |
| Nicole Molinari | Sedgwick Reserve | Dominant Species Replacement and the effect on Resource Heterogeneity and Biodiversity | UC Santa Barbara | 2008-2009 |
| Tal Ben-Horin | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Developing translocation as a species conservation tool with an empirical understanding of the way organisms perceive their environment | UC Santa Barbara | 2008-2009 |
| Sara A. Baguskas | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Ecological interactions between epiphytic macrolichen (Ramalina menziesii) and fog on Santa Cruz Island, California | UC Santa Barbara | 2008-2009 |
| Kristin A. Weathers | Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve and Motte Rimrock Reserve | Restoration of Coastal Sage Scrub — testing modifications of agricultural solarization | UC Riverside | 2008-2009 |
| Amy Concilio | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Effects of changing climatic and edaphic conditions on Bromus tectorum invasion in the eastern Sierra Nevada | UC Santa Cruz | 2008-2009 |
| Elizabeth A. Sutton | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Household and Community Organization at Nimatlala, a Historic Period Chumash Village on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 2008-2009 |
| Irina Catherine Irvine | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | The influence of nitrogen enrichment on the composition and functioning of microbial communities in California salt marshes | UC Irvine | 2008-2009 |
| Stephanie Porter | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Local adaptation of cryptic seed coloration: a novel defense mechanism? | UC Davis | 2008-2009 |
| Sarah Dalrymple | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | A newly-described ant behavior and its effect on tree fitness and fire severity in the eastern Sierra Nevada | UC Davis | 2008-2009 |
| Christy Bowles, Heidi Weiskel | Bodega Marine Reserve | Demographics and eradication of a new invasive population of Batillaria attramentaria in Bodega Harbor | UC Davis | 2008-2009 |
| Elizabeth Wommack | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | Examination of Sexually Dimorphic Fitness Signals in the Plumage of the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) | UC Berkeley | 2008-2009 |
| Erin Elaine Nuccio | Sedgwick Reserve | Rhizosphere bacterial and archaeal biogeography in a California annual grassland | UC Berkeley | 2008-2009 |
| Joseph Sapp | Sagehen Creek Field Station | The behavioral ecology of slavemaking ants | UC Santa Cruz | 2008-2009 |
| Rachel Clausing | Bodega Marine Reserve | Anthropogenic nutrient loading on rocky intertidal biodiversity: context-dependent effects? | UC Los Angeles | 2008-2009 |
| Andrea Grunst | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Reproduction in variable environments: Plasticity and alternative strategies in sexual reproduction | UC Riverside | 2009-2010 |
| Stephanie Diaz | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Investigation of 35S Method in Long-Term Monitoring of Groundwater Recharge in the Mountains of California | UC Santa Barbara | 2009-2010 |
| Lindsey Albertson | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Impacts of biological diversity on sediment transport in streams | UC Santa Barbara | 2009-2010 |
| Claire Wainwright | Scripps Coastal Reserve | Summer Irrigation Pulses: An Investigation of Restoration Methods for Invaded Coastal Sage Scrub Communities | UC Diego | 2009-2010 |
| Brad Lipovsky | Box Springs Reserve | Continuous GPS observation of the San Jacinto fault at the Box Springs Reserve: Implications for seismic hazard assessment | UC Riverside | 2009-2010 |
| Melissa Grunst | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Coping with shifting life-history optimums: stress response modulation and life-history plasticity | UC Riverside | 2009-2010 |
| Jennifer Yost | Dawson Los Monos Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, Quail Ridge Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | Ecological adaptations and the evolution of reproductive barriers in the Lasthenia californica complex | UC Santa Cruz | 2009-2010 |
| Carla Essenberg | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | How do responses to flower density vary with spatial scale and between pollinator taxa? | UC Riverside | 2009-2010 |
| Chelsea Arnold | Yosemite Field Station | Effects of summer convective precipitation pulses on soil moisture and carbon dynamics in a high elevation ecosystem | UC Merced | 2009-2010 |
| Gilene Young | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Alternative reproductive strategies, intersexual conflict, and female choice in the sand wasp | UC Los Angeles | 2009-2010 |
| Jonathan Drury | Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Causes and consequences of mate choice in house wrens | UC Los Angeles | 2009-2010 |
| Rachel Clausing | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Cascading effects of nutrient enrichment on rocky intertidal assemblages | UC Los Angeles | 2009-2010 |
| Stephanie Kivlin | Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Box Springs Reserve, Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Emerson Oaks Reserve, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | How well can fungi migrate under a changing climate? | UC Irvine | 2009-2010 |
| Irina Irvine | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | The influence of nitrogen enrichment on the composition and functioning of microbial communities in California salt marshes | UC Irvine | 2009-2010 |
| Christopher Woodcock | All reserves in the system | A Visual Survey; photographic study of the University of California Natural Reserve System. | UC Davis | 2009-2010 |
| William Wetzel | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Valentine Camp | Spatial abundance structures in an intraguild-predation foodweb | UC Davis | 2009-2010 |
| Kelly Smith | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve | How does California killifish behavior and hormone profile influence encounter and infection rates with the trematode parasite Euhaplorchis californiensis? | UC Davis | 2009-2010 |
| Clarissa Sabella | Bodega Marine Reserve | Effect of Algal Symbionts on Local Adaptation in Anthopleura elegantissima | UC Davis | 2009-2010 |
| Sarah Gravem | Bodega Marine Reserve | Predator effects on communities: indirect interactions and alternate community states | UC Davis | 2009-2010 |
| Michelle Afkhami | Hastings Natural History Reservation, Quail Ridge Reserve | Mutualism-mediated niche expansion and partitioning in California native bunchgrass, Bromus laevipes | UC Davis | 2009-2010 |
| Adam Roddy | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | The Hydraulic Costs of Reproduction in California Oaks | UC Berkeley | 2009-2010 |
| Yonatan Munk | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Aerodynamic stability and control in the wingless relict silverfish Tricholepidion gertschi | UC Berkeley | 2009-2010 |
| Nicole Migliarese | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Children’s Everyday Experiences with the Natural World | UC Berkeley | 2009-2010 |
| Kirsten Hill | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | The spatio-temporal impacts of invasive grasses on spiders and their herbivore prey in California’s grasslands. | UC Berkeley | 2009-2010 |
| Abraham Borker | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | A test of Acoustic Sensors for Monitoring the Relative Abundance of a Rare Seabird Species, the Ashy Storm-Petrel | UC Santa Cruz | 2010-2011 |
| Christian Balzer-Rogers | Sedgwick Reserve | Does interannual variation in rainfall stabilize species coexistence in California grasslands? | UC Santa Barbara | 2010-2011 |
| Melissa Grunst | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Adaptive plasticity in reproductive behavior and mediation by the adrenocortical stress response | UC Riverside | 2010-2011 |
| Andrea Grunst | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Does phenotypic plasticity underlie inter-male diversity in sexual ornamentation and reproductive behavior? | UC Riverside | 2010-2011 |
| Emily Wilson | Yosemite Field Station | Diversity of Conifer Endophytes in Tuolumne Meadows | UC Merced | 2010-2011 |
| Keith Gaddis | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | A multi-level approach to describing connectivity in Acacia greggii | UC Los Angeles | 2010-2011 |
| William Wetzel | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Valentine Camp | The spatial distribution patterns of an insect herbivore: bottom-up vs. top-down | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Bruce Hammock | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | A test of the green world hypothesis in Convict Creek | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Taraneh Emam | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | The role of mycorrhizal symbioses over a soil stress gradient at a Northern California mercury mine and effects on native and invasive plants | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Regina Dingler | Quail Ridge Reserve | Surveillance of Quail Ridge Reserve’s Avifauna for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Joy Cookingham | Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve | Constraints on biological nitrogen fixation across geological time | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Eve Robinson | Bodega Marine Reserve | The effect of turbulence on swimming behavior of zooplankton and their capture by benthic suspension feeders | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Jeremy Crawford | Landels Hill Big Creek Reserve | Integrative analyses of mammalian mate choice in a natural and comparative context. | UC Berkeley | 2010-2011 |
| Katherine LeVan | Dawson Los Monos Reserve | Homogenizing a mutualism: Does the invasive Argentine ant reduce species diversity in ant-aphid mutualism? | UC Diego | 2010-2011 |
| Christopher Kopp | White Mountain Research Station | The Role of Facilitation by Artemisia arbuscula in Alpine Communities | UC Diego | 2010-2011 |
| Sarah Peterson | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Ecotoxicology of northern elephant seals from the Año Nuevo Reserve colony: sentinels of North Pacific meso-pelagic contamination | UC Santa Cruz | 2011-2012 |
| Emily Curd | Sedgwick Reserve | A metagenomic study of the effects of vegetation on soil microbial community carbon cycling and sequestration | UC Los Angeles | 2011-2012 |
| Samuel Prentice | Sedgwick Reserve | Quantifying soil natural capital using enhancing predictive soil mapping | UC Santa Barbara | 2011-2012 |
| Kristin Hoppa | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Reconstructing Prehistoric Plant Use on Santa Cruz Island | UC Santa Barbara | 2011-2012 |
| John Regus | Bodega Marine Reserve, Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, and Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition destabilizes symbiosis in legume-rhizobia | UC Riverside | 2011-2012 |
| Ashkaan Fahimipour | San Joaquin Marsh Reserve | Trophic Cascades in Space | UC Riverside | 2011-2012 |
| Chandra Goetsch | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Effects of Changing Climate on the Foraging Ecology and Diet of Northern Elephant Seals using Quantitative Fatty Acid Analysis (QFASA) | UC Santa Cruz | 2011-2012 |
| Jonathan Perkins | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Thermochronologic constraints on the temporal evolution of the Hilton Creek fault, Long Valley caldera, CA | UC Santa Cruz | 2011-2012 |
| Jens Stevens | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Regeneration niches for elevation-limited shrubs: The importance of precipitation and water availability | UC Davis | 2011-2012 |
| Bree Putman | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | Testing the Function of Antipredator Signals Using Ground Squirrel-Rattlesnake Interactions as a Model System | UC Davis | 2011-2012 |
| Jennifer Balachowski | Bodega Marine Reserve | Restoring for the future: Intraspecific functional variation as a tool for grassland restoration | UC Davis | 2011-2012 |
| Talisin Hammond | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Valentine Camp | Climate change physiology in two species of California chipmunks | UC Berkeley | 2011-2012 |
| Kaitlin Lubetkin | Yosemite Field Station | Extent, Causes, and Ecohydrologic Consequences of Conifer Encroachment into Subalpine Meadows in the Central Sierra Nevada, California | UC Merced | 2011-2012 |
| Rachel Brown | Fort Ord Natural Reserve, Younger Lagoon Reserve | Dietary ecology of coastal coyotes (Canis latrans): Marine-terrestrial linkages from the Holocene to present | UC Santa Cruz | 2011-2012 |
| Priya Ganguli | Younger Lagoon Reserve | Are Coastal Lagoons an Important Source of Mercury to Nearshore Marine Habitats? | UC Santa Cruz | 2012-2013 |
| Andrew MacDonald | Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | Lyme disease risk and the ecology of tick-borne disease in southern California | UC Santa Barbara | 2012-2013 |
| Nathan Emery | Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve | Spatial dynamics of fog deposition | UC Santa Barbara | 2012-2013 |
| Celia Symons | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab | Ecological and Evolutionary Effects of Climate Change in Mountain Lakes | UC San Diego | 2012-2013 |
| Keng-Lou James Hung | Elliott Chaparral Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | Are Pollination Services Compromised by Reduced Native Bee Species Diversity? | UC San Diego | 2012-2013 |
| Ellen Esch | Elliott Chaparral Reserve | Soil microbial changes associated with invasive species and altered precipitation regimes | UC San Diego | 2012-2013 |
| Lauren Schiebelhut | Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | The role of long-distance dispersal via kelp rafting in establishing marine phylogeographic patterns | UC Merced | 2012-2013 |
| Gary Bucciarelli | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Phenotypic variation through space and time of tetrodotoxin levels in Taricha torosa within and between watersheds throughout California | UC Los Angeles | 2012-2013 |
| Catherine Wade | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Valentine Camp | Impacts of Climate Change on Native and Invasive Sagebrush Steppe Fire Fuel Properties | UC Santa Cruz | 2012-2013 |
| Billy Krimmel | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Herbivore farming by an omnivorous plant bug | UC Davis | 2012-2013 |
| Patrick Grof-Tisza | Bodega Marine Reserve | Spatiotemporal influence of trophic control on the abundance and distribution of an insect herbivore | UC Davis | 2012-2013 |
| Kelly Gravuer | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Impacts of nutrient addition and climate change on soil microbial communities: Linkages with plant communities and ecosystem function across a soil fertility gradient | UC Davis | 2012-2013 |
| Chloe Lewis | Jepson Prairie Reserve | Measuring NDVI in Mima-type mounds: Mima mounds arise from small interactions, continued. | UC Berkeley | 2012-2013 |
| Sydney Glassman | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Cascading effects of the invasive pathogen Phytophthora ramorum on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities | UC Berkeley | 2012-2013 |
| Keith Bouma-Gregson | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Microbial and invertebrate grazer controls on the ecosystem fate of riverine algal production | UC Berkeley | 2012-2013 |
| Mia Maltz | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | Fungal carbon stabilization of conifer debris in Southern California’s San Jacinto Mountains | UC Irvine | 2012-2013 |
| Catherine Wade | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Impacts of Climate Change on Native and Invasive Sagebrush Steppe Fire Fuel Properties | UC Santa Cruz | 2013-2014 |
| Joseph Stewart | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Investigating Mechanisms of Decline for a Climate Sensitive Species, the American Pika | UC Santa Cruz | 2013-2014 |
| Chandra Goetsch | Ano Nuevo Island Reserve | What’s on the menu? Determining diet of northern elephant seals using stable isotope analysis | UC Santa Cruz | 2013-2014 |
| Caroline Casey | Ano Nuevo Island Reserve | The voice of the northern elephant seal: Documenting changes in acoustic behavior over time | UC Santa Cruz | 2013-2014 |
| Mary Toothman | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Genetic and Environmental Drivers for Host Population Persistence vs. Extirpation in the Face of Pathogen Invasion | UC Santa Barbara | 2013-2014 |
| Laura Reynolds | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Holocene evolution of southern Californian estuaries: sedimentological evidence for tsunamis, subsidence, and sea level changes. | UC Santa Barbara | 2013-2014 |
| Andrew MacDonald | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Coal Oil Point Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Reserve, Emerson Oaks Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve ,Kenneth S Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Quail Ridge Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Stunt Ranch | The California tick transect: Assessing regional differences in community composition, infection prevalence, and human risk of tick-borne disease | UC Santa Barbara | 2013-2014 |
| Sarah Peterson | Ano Nuevo Island Reserve | What’s on the menu? Determining diet of northern elephant seals using stable isotope analysis | UC Santa Cruz | 2013-2014 |
| Akana Noto | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve | Interactions between marsh plants across a latitudinal gradient: the effect of environmental conditions and local adaptation | UC San Diego | 2013-2014 |
| Jeffrey Lee | Motte Rimrock Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Comparative study of artificial light pollution, noise pollution, and other novel sources of anthropogenic stress on urban-dwelling bird communities | UC Irvine | 2013-2014 |
| Daniel Winkler | Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center | Drought stress tolerance and community invasions at the Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center | UC Irvine | 2013-2014 |
| Kyle Christie | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Speciation Mechanisms in Streptanthus: a flagship neo-endemic of the California flora | UC Davis | 2013-2014 |
| Maria Tonione | Quail Ridge Reserve | Thermal adaptation in the Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) | UC Berkeley | 2013-2014 |
| Jesyka Melendez | Hastings Natural History Reservation | MHC-mediated mate choice in two behaviorally distinct Peromyscus rodent species | UC Berkeley | 2013-2014 |
| Mathhew O’Neill | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Interacting effects of mutualist community composition and phenological variation on the invasive habit of an annual grass | UC Riverside | 2013-2014 |
| Sarah Skikne | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Patterns and mechanisms of climate-induced range shifts in the Deep Canyon Transect. | UC Santa Cruz | 2014-2015 |
| Philip Georgakakos | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Cascading Effects of an Introduced Predator | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 |
| Katharine Cary | Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve | Plant Physiological Response to Edaphic Stress | UC Santa Cruz | 2014-2015 |
| Kristen Peach | Box Springs Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Quail Ridge Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, SNRS-Yosemite Field Station, and Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Predicting the effects of climate change on floral traits and reproductive success in Clarkia: using geographic variation in climate as a proxy for temporal change | UC Santa Barbara | 2014-2015 |
| Annika Nabors | Elliott Chaparral Reserve | To what extent do introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) contribute to the pollination and reproductive success of native California plants? | UC San Diego | 2014-2015 |
| William Petry | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Chickering American River Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Scaling up demography How climate and species interactions shape the population dynamics and management of the invasive herb Plantago lanceolata | UC Irvine | 2014-2015 |
| Laura Elsberry | Bodega Marine Reserve, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | Do species co-occurrence and environmental filtering determine community composition? | UC Irvine | 2014-2015 |
| Nameer Baker | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center and James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | Microbial community constraints on the response of decomposer communities to climate change in southern California | UC Irvine | 2014-2015 |
| Allison Simler | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Disturbance legacies: The impacts of post-fire bay laurel resprouting on microclimate, microbial assemblages, and forest disease dynamics | UC Davis | 2014-2015 |
| Marshall McMunn | Sagehen Creek Field Station | Investigating the role of temperature as a driver of ant community structure in time | UC Davis | 2014-2015 |
| Connor Dibble | Bodega Marine Reserve | Ocean processes determining the bottom-up regulation of rocky shore communities along an upwelling coast | UC Davis | 2014-2015 |
| Tyler Bourret | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Disturbance legacies: The impacts of post-fire bay laurel resprouting on microclimate, microbial assemblages, and forest disease dynamics | UC Davis | 2014-2015 |
| Rachael Olliff | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Restoring phenology? An assessment of phenology dynamics in two native lupines used commonly in restoration | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 |
| Meagan Oldfather | White Mountain Research Center | Demographic Responses and Range Shifts in an Arid Alpine System | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 |
| Suzanne Kelson | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Ecological consequences of partial migration in a salmonid fish | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 |
| Kelly Easterday | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Understanding landscape resilience over time: reconstructing and resurveying history | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 |
| Allison Pfeiffer | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | What’s on the menu? Determining diet of northern elephant seals using stable isotope analysis | UC Santa Cruz | 2014-2015 |
| Katherine Ross | Valentine Camp Reserve | Population structure, water use efficiency, and the potential for upslope migration in eastern Sierra Nevada pine species | UC Santa Cruz | 2015-2016 |
| Ting Ting Lin | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Coal Oil Point Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation San Joaquin Marsh Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Hybridization dynamics of two Microtus californicus lineages | UC Berkeley | 2015-2016 |
| Benjamin Plourde | Quail Ridge Reserve, Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve | Response of dusky-footed woodrats and ticks to the Wragg Fire, July 2015 | UC Davis | 2015-2016 |
| Jason Rothman | Box Springs Reserve, Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center, Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Emerson Oaks Reserve, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | Assaying the Effects of Metal Contamination on Microbial Communities | UC Riverside | 2015-2016 |
| Gabriel Rossi | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Response of over-summering salmonids to foodweb structure and hydraulics in a changing river ecosystem | UC Berkeley | 2015-2016 |
| John Mola | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Building a coherent picture of bumblebee movement through determining settlement cues, dispersal, and gene flow. | UC Davis | 2015-2016 |
| Eric LoPresti | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Indirect herbivore defense in sticky plants: convergence, optimal strategies and induction | UC Davis | 2015-2016 |
| William Jesse Hahm | Angelo Coast Range Reserve | Lithology, forest resilience, and shrinking water supplies in the California Coast Ranges | UC Berkeley | 2015-2016 |
| Seira Adams | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Bodega Marine Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | The evolution of chemical recognition cues in Californian Tetragnatha spiders | UC Berkeley | 2015-2016 |
| Natalya Gallo | Scripps Coastal Reserve | Understanding the presence and influence of hypoxic waters on demersal fish communities in the Scripps Coastal Reserve | UC San Diego | 2015-2016 |
| Micah Freedman | Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Stunt Ranch Reserve | Comparative ecology and evolution of plant defenses against herbivores in the California Channel Islands | UC Davis | 2015-2016 |
| Eric Slessarev | Hastings Natural History Reservation, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | Using Microbial Water Response to Understand Deep Soil Carbon | UC Santa Barbara | 2015-2016 |
| Sarah Kienle | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Effects of the current El Niño Southern Oscillation on the foraging behavior and habitat use of a large marine predator, the northern elephant seal | UC Santa Cruz | 2015-2016 |
| Rachel Zuercher | Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Social-ecological coupling in the central California commercial live-fish fishery | UC Santa Cruz | 2015-2016 |
| Kelsey Lyberger | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in Daphnia life history: how can “superfleas” be explained? | UC Davis | 2017-2018 |
| Logan Kozal | Coal Oil Point Reserve | Investigating the Capacity of Surfgrass to Serve as an Ocean Acidification Refuge | UC Santa Barbara | 2017-2018 |
| Nicole Kollars | Bodega Marine Reserve | The consequences of grazing by Brant geese on the genetic diversity of seagrass | UC Davis | 2017-2018 |
| Julia Sizek | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Reclaiming the Desert: Cultural Revitalization and Biological Conservation at an Ecological Limit | UC Berkeley | 2017-2018 |
| Amanda Robin | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | The economics of personality: how context and personality influence foraging decisions | UC Los Angeles | 2017-2018 |
| Felisha Wong | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | Understanding how Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) differentiate between local and foreign song | UC Los Angeles | 2017-2018 |
| Ida Naughton | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Sagehen Creek Field Station, Sedgwick Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Phylogeography of Carpenter ants from the California Channel Islands: an evolutionary reconstruction based on phylogenomics | UC San Diego | 2017-2018 |
| Theresa Keates | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Northern elephant seal foraging behavior and open ocean productivity | UC Santa Cruz | 2017-2018 |
| Elizabeth Ryan | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Bodega Marine Reserve, Coal Oil Point Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Reserve, Fort Ord Natural Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino | The role of local adaptation in predicting the response of E. californica to climate change | UC San Diego | 2017-2018 |
| Piper Wallingford | Scripps Coastal Reserve | Community effects of a climate-induced range expansion of the predatory whelk Mexacanthina lugubris | UC Irvine | 2017-2018 |
| Natalie Fischer | Yosemite Field Station | Buzz pollination in bees: nutritional effects on energetic mechanisms underlying behavior | UC Riverside | 2017-2018 |
| Lauren Pandori | Coal Oil Point Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | Learning from the past: a life cycle approach to understanding California mussel declines | UC Irvine | 2017-2018 |
| Morgan Barnes | White Mountain Research Center | Climatic controls on the biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus in the critical zone | UC Merced | 2017-2018 |
| Madeline Nolan | Sedgwick Reserve | The Effect of Functional Diversity and Top Soil Removal on Reinvasion of Grassland Communities after Restoration in California Old Fields | UC Santa Barbara | 2017-2018 |
| Amanda Hale | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Harvester Ant Gut Microbiome | UC Riverside | 2017-2018 |
| Ana Valenzuela | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | From the living to the death: A taphonomic analysis of pinnipeds in Año Nuevo Island Reserve | UC Santa Cruz | 2017-2018 |
| Helen Killeen | Bodega Marine Reserve | Interspecific variation and biophysical transport of coastal fish larvae in an upwelling region with low recruitment predictability | UC Davis | 2017-2018 |
| Ben Wasserman | Younger Lagoon Reserve | Can fluctuations in natural selection promote maintenance of genetic diversity? | UC Santa Cruz | 2017-2018 |
| Tatum Katz | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Where did you find that?: Environmental reservoirs of a lethal fungal pathogen | UC Santa Barbara | 2018-2019 |
| Samuel Bedgood | Bodega Marine Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve | Sea anemone holobionts as allochthonous inputs and invertebrate microhabitat | UC Irvine | 2018-2019 |
| Justin Luong | Younger Lagoon Reserve | Do plant functional traits explain drought impacts on restoration success? | UC Santa Cruz | 2018-2019 |
| Jenna Baughman | Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | The effects of UV radiation on Mojave Desert biological soil crust mosses | UC Berkeley | 2018-2019 |
| Arina Favilla | Año Nuevo Island Reserve | Paradoxical adaptations in the physiology of diving marine mammals | UC Santa Cruz | 2018-2019 |
| Amanda Donaldson | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | Linking Critical Zone Subsurface Structure to Runoff Generation: Characterization of hydrologic responses to aspect-driven regolith asymmetry at Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | UC Santa Cruz | 2018-2019 |
| Veronica Vriesman | Bodega Marine Reserve | A high-resolution, multi-millennial record of Holocene environmental variability at human-occupied sites in Bodega Bay, California | UC Davis | 2018-2019 |
| Amanda Robin | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | The economics of personality: how context and personality influence foraging decisions | UC Los Angeles | 2018-2019 |
| Tesa Madsen-McQueen | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Do microhabitat and biotic interactions mediate range shifts along an elevational gradient? | UC Riverside | 2018-2019 |
| Regina Spranger | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Chickering American River Reserve Sagehen Creek Field Station | Thermal Acclimation Potential of Northern California Salamanders: An Extinction Risk Assessment under Climate Change | UC Santa Cruz | 2018-2019 |
| Molly Hardesty-Moore | Coal Oil Point Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | Temporal, spatial, and dietary niche partitioning of three synanthropic mesopredators (raccoon, striped skunk, and Virginia opossum) along a gradient of human use | UC Santa Barbara | 2018-2019 |
| Henry Baker | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | How Does Basal Resource Composition Regulate the Structure of Higher Trophic Levels in Lakes? | UC San Diego | 2018-2019 |
| Adam Pepi | Bodega Marine Reserve | Effects of interacting climate & biotic drivers on the population dynamics of the Ranchman’s tiger moth (Arctia virginalis) across a gradient of precipitation: an experimental test | UC Davis | 2018-2019 |
| Juan de Jesus Escalante | Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve Coal Oil Point Reserve Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve Sedgwick Reserve | Ecosystem Sonography | UC Santa Barbara | 2018-2019 |
| Collin Gross | Bodega Marine Reserve | Interactive effects of predator and prey functional traits and phylogenetic structure on assembly of faunal communities associated with Central California eelgrass beds | UC Davis | 2018-2019 |
| Eric Tymstra | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | From Chemistry to Community: Conserving Greater sage-grouse in the Eastern Sierra | UC Davis | 2018-2019 |
| Kaleigh Fisher | Fort Ord Natural Reserve Younger Lagoon Reserve | The effects of foraging environment on the gustatory abilities of wild caught bumble bees | UC Riverside | 2018-2019 |
| Ryan Conway | James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve | If you build it will they reach it? Incorporating functional dispersal distances and pathways in models selecting optimal sites for river restoration. | UC Riverside | 2018-2019 |
| Caroline Owens | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Effect of climate change on the fate of phosphorus in alpine lake systems | UC Santa Barbara | 2018-2019 |
| Erica Sarro | Yosemite Field Station | Bumble bee queen plasticity and sensitivity to floral resource quality | UC Riverside | 2018-2019 |
| Amy Geffre | Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Elliot Chaparral Reserve | The “Understudied” Honey Bee: Exploring the role of feral honey bees in pathogen dynamics of southern California pollinator communities. | UC San Diego | 2019-2020 |
| Leila Wahab | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve | The Role of Organic Nitrogen Compounds in Soil Organic Matter Stability: Changes in Distribution, Composition, and Mineral Associations Under Altered Precipitation Regimes in California Grasslands | UC Merced | 2019-2020 |
| Henry Baker | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Natural Selection in the Wild: Identifying Environmental Drivers of Phenotypic Divergence in a Native Minnow | UC San Diego | 2019-2020 |
| Tim Brown | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Valentine Camp White Mountain Research Center | Assessing Climate Variability in the Highest-Elevation Breeding Bird on the Continent: Sierra Nevada Gray-Crowned Rosy-finches | UC Santa Cruz | 2019-2020 |
| Jon Detka | Fort Ord Natural Reserve | Interactions between native fungal pathogens and environment shape maritime chaparral community structure during long fire-free periods | UC Santa Cruz | 2019-2020 |
| Imani Russell | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Boyd Deep Canyon DRC McLaughlin Natural Reserve Merced Vernal Pools & Grasslands Reserve Quail Ridge Reserve Sedgwick Reserve Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve Younger Lagoon Reserve | Genetic drivers of host susceptibility and pathogen virulence in the chytrid-frog system across California | UC Santa Barbara | 2019-2020 |
| Elaine Young | Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center | Testing mechanisms for subsidence and uplift in the the fish Creek Vallecito Basin | UC Davis | 2019-2020 |
| Isaac Marck | Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center | Investigating speciation in the Perityle emoryi species complex in the desert and channel islands of California | UC Berkeley | 2019-2020 |
| Matthew Green | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Landscape Biodiversity in Alpine Lake-Stream Networks | UC Riverside | 2019-2020 |
| Elijah Hall | White Mountain Research Center | Phenology and community composition determine reproductive success through the lens of pollination services | UC Riverside | 2019-2020 |
| Lillie Pennington | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Yosemite Field Station | Selecting to Fail: Does Drought Reduce Adaptive Variation in Natural Populations? | UC Merced | 2019-2020 |
| Daniel Hastings | Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve | Water Storage in Joshua trees | UC Santa Cruz | 2019-2020 |
| Christopher Cosma | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | Linking plant-plant and plant-pollinator interactions along an elevational gradient | UC Riverside | 2019-2020 |
| Kathy Pham | White Mountain Research Center | Effects of high-altitude exposure on inflammation and immune phenotypes | UC Riverside | 2019-2020 |
| Alisha Saley | Bodega Marine Reserve | Impaired anti-predator responses of coastal gastropods under ocean acidification | UC Davis | 2019-2020 |
| Samuel Bogan | Bodega Marine Reserve Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve | Ecological and evolutionary underpinnings of plasticity in thermal tolerance among natural populations of Tigriopus californicus | UC Santa Barbara | 2019-2020 |
| Robert Fitch | Sedgwick Reserve | Legacy effects of long term fertilization on nutrient cycling and mycorrhizae in a California grassland | UC Santa Barbara | 2019-2020 |
| Ashley Grupenhoff | Valentine Camp | Initial changes in forest stand structure and plant communities following fuels treatment at Valentine Reserve. | UC Davis | 2019-2020 |
| Dillon Travis | Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Elliot Chaparral Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Determining the Impact of super abundant, non-native honey bees (Apis mellifera) on native bee populations in Southern California | UC San Diego | 2020-2021 |
| Henry Baker | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Prey naivete, predator avoidance, and top-down control: lessons from a native minnow | UC San Diego | 2020-2021 |
| Samantha Sambado | Coal Oil Point Reserve, Fort Ord Natural Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Transmission dynamics of tick-borne pathogens across a latitudinal gradient | UC Santa Barbara | 2020-2021 |
| Kenji Hayashi | Sedgwick Reserve | Quantifying the effect of competitive Interactions on the landscape-scale distributions of annual plant species in a California grassland | UC Los Angeles | 2020-2021 |
| Christopher Cosma | Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center | The relative contribution of nocturnal and diurnal pollination to native plant seed set across diverse habitats in Southern California | UC Riverside | 2020-2021 |
| Madeleine Zuercher | Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | Investigating interspecific interference on mesocarnivore behavior and ecology in the Santa Monica Mountains | UC Los Angeles | 2020-2021 |
| Michelle Herrera | Bodega Marine Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Testing phylosymbiosis in prickleback fishes across different geographical locations | UC Irvine | 2020-2021 |
| Rebecca Keim | Motte Rimrock Reserve | Native ant interactions with invasive species, stink-net and Sahara mustard, in coastal sage scrub | UC Riverside | 2020-2021 |
| Maggie Grundler | Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Point Reyes Field Station, Sagehen Creek Field Station | How special are specialists? Building a framework for dietary genomics in the genus Thamnophis | UC Berkeley | 2020-2021 |
| Christine Bonadonna | Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory | Elevational patterns in taxonomic and functional diversity in mountain ponds | UC Irvine | 2020-2021 |
| Chris Allen | Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve | How do hummingbirds and yellowjackets mediate parasite prevalence for bee communities? | UC Riverside | 2020-2021 |
| Emily Longman | Bodega Marine Reserve | Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a rocky intertidal ecosystem | UC Davis | 2020-2021 |
| Basem Al-Shayeb | Lassen Field Station | Metagenomic survey of microbial communities in Lassen Volcanic National Park | UC Berkeley | 2020-2021 |
| Eva Horna Lowell | Sedgwick Reserve | Examining interactions between animals, their microbial communities, and the built environment | UC Los Angeles | 2020-2021 |
| Natasha Vokhshoori | Santa Cruz Island Reserve | Isotopic proxies coupled to archaeological archives for investigating ocean climate regime shift impacts on Native American populations and marine ecosystems on the California Channel Islands | UC Santa Cruz | 2020-2021 |
| Samuel Fellows | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center, Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Reserve, Elliot Chaparral Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Polymorphism maintains diversity in side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) | UC Merced | 2020-2021 |
| Nerissa Barling | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | Linking Deep Fault Zone Processes to Shallow Critical Zone Development and Plant Available Water: Characterization of subsurface water storage capacity and retention at Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | UC Santa Cruz | 2021-2022 |
| Alberto Barron Sandoval | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Año Nuevo Island Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Bodega Marine Reserve Coal Oil Point Reserve Elliot Chaparral Reserve Emerson Oaks Reserve Fort Ord Natural Reserve Hastings Natural History Reservation James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve Jepson Prairie Reserve Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve Lassen Field Station McLaughlin Natural Reserve Merced Vernal Pools & Grasslands Reserve Motte Rimrock Reserve Quail Ridge Reserve Sagehen Creek Field Station Scripps Coastal Reserve Sedgwick Reserve Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego DRC Sweeney Granite Mountains DRC Valentine Camp White Mountain Research Center Yosemite Field Station | Microbial traits and the functioning of soil ecosystems in response to climate change | UC Irvine | 2021-2022 |
| Joshua Dominguez | Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab | Effects of environment on the composition, diversity, and interpopulation variation of gut microbiomes in wild Brook Char (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the Sierra Nevada | UC San Diego | 2021-2022 |
| Devin Gamble | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Bodega Marine Reserve Hastings Natural History Reservation | Dealing with drought: measuring phenotypic plasticity and its capacity to evolve across a broad geographic gradient in an iconic California wildflower | UC Santa Barbara | 2021-2022 |
| Lauren Giggy | Blue Oak Ranch Reserve | Investigating lithologic controls on the export of water, nitrogen, and carbon in fire-affected headwater streams | UC Santa Cruz | 2021-2022 |
| Maggie Grundler | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Hastings Natural History Reservation Pt. Reyes Field Station Sagehen Creek Field Station | How special are specialists? Building a framework for dietary genomics in the genus Thamnophis | UC Berkeley | 2021-2022 |
| Diler Haji | McLaughlin Natural Reserve Quail Ridge Reserve | Genomic footprints of forest fires in California death camas (Toxicoscordion) | UC Berkeley | 2021-2022 |
| Tracie Hayes | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Bodega Marine Reserve Hastings Natural History Reservation | Ephemeral resource patches, environmental context, and reproductive output | UC Davis | 2021-2022 |
| Lisa Kim | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Bodega Marine Reserve Hastings Natural History Reservation | Does seed size evolve? A quantitative genetic analysis of the heritability of seed mass and selection in a California-native annual (Previously: Evolutionary adaptation of seed mass across a geographic gradient) | UC Santa Barbara | 2021-2022 |
| Lily McIntire | Bodega Marine Reserve | The effects of locomotive speed on the thermoregulatory behavior of intertidal ectotherms | UC Davis | 2021-2022 |
| Maxi Navarrette | Sedgwick Reserve | Exoenzyme Synthesis, a Spatial Approach | UC Santa Barbara | 2021-2022 |
| Rebecca Nelson | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | The Effects of Invasion on California Grassland Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms | UC Davis | 2021-2022 |
| Samantha Sambado | Hastings Natural History Reservation Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve McLaughlin Natural Reserve | Direct and indirect impacts on tick-borne disease risk from historic fire events | UC Santa Barbara | 2021-2022 |
| Heidi Waite | Bodega Marine Reserve Coal Oil Point Reserve Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve Pt. Reyes Field Station Scripps Coastal Reserve | A blast from the past: carry-over effects from early life stage experiences on juveniles and beyond | UC Irvine | 2021-2022 |
| Emily Dewald-Wang | Angelo Coast Range Reserve Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve | Coast redwood-associated fungal and bacterial communities along gradients in fog and fire | UC Berkeley | 2022-2023 |
| Joshua Dominguez | Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab | How does host community diversity affect host-associated and free-living microbial communities? | UC San Diego | 2022-2023 |
| Alexia Fabiani | Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab | The influence of heterotrophic bacteria on phytoplankton temperature tolerance across an elevation gradient in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA | UC San Diego | 2022-2023 |
| Tracie Hayes | Boyd Deep Canyon DRC | Precipitation Legacy Effects on Gross Nitrogen Transformation Rates in Dryland Ecosystems | UC Davis | 2022-2023 |
| Jamie Irby | Boyd Deep Canyon DRC | Precipitation Legacy Effects on Gross Nitrogen Transformation Rates in Dryland Ecosystems | UC Riverside | 2022-2023 |
| Sean O’Fallon | Sedgwick Reserve | Assessing the determinants of collective behavior in Veromessor harvester ants at the UC Sedgwick natural reserve | UC Los Angeles | 2022-2023 |
| Julianne Pekny | Lassen Field Station Quail Ridge Reserve | Understanding the processes behind observed phenological patterns: physiological and behavioral constraints of water temperature on Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla) reproduction | UC Davis | 2022-2023 |
| Sydney Salley | Coal Oil Point Reserve | Metagenomic survey of methane oxidizing microbial mats of Coal Oil Point Gas Seeps | UC Davis | 2022-2023 |
| Jennifer Schlauch | Bodega Marine Reserve Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve Dawson Los Monos Reserve Younger Lagoon Reserve Kendall-Frost Mission Bary Marsh Reserve San Joaquin Marsh Reserve | Solitary Bee Diversity and Microbiomes in California’s Coastal Wetlands | UC Irvine | 2022-2023 |
| Paul Seibert | Pt. Reyes Field Station | Investigating Grassland Water Partitioning Response to Climate Change | UC Berkeley | 2022-2023 |
| Nidhi Vinod | Sedgwick Reserve | Water status and ecosystem function of California native oaks vary with topography and microclimate | UC Los Angeles | 2022-2023 |
| Broooke Wainwright | McLaughlin Natural Reserve | The role of fire and functional frameworks in restoring oak savanna understory | UC Davis | 2022-2023 |
| Jacob Weverka | Sedgwick Reserve | Investigating how grassland plant communities mediate grazing effects on soil carbon | UC Santa Barbara | 2022-2023 |