The eighth annual Joseph Grinnell Student Research Awards will be presented by the Cooper Ornithological Society at the 2007 annual meeting to support beginning research efforts of new Ph.D. graduate students. Up to two $1000 awards are designated, in the memory of Joseph Grinnell, to support basic research in any aspect of avian biology. Projects that deal with conservation issues in avian biology should be directed to the Mewaldt-King Research Awards Committee of the Cooper Ornithological Society. Students may not submit a proposal to both award committees in the same year):

• 2007:
  • Dana L. Moseley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Sexual selection and signal function in the song of the Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)".
  • Corey E. Tarwater, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, “How do life history traits of Neotropical birds influence patterns of parental defense?”
  
  
• 2006:
  • Sanja Hinic-Frlog, University of California-Davis, "Foot-propelled underwater locomotion in swimming birds".
  • Jennifer A. Hancock, Ohio University, "Head-bobbing, foraging behavior and retinal morphology in charadriiform birds".
  • Judith Toms, University of Missouri, "Does competition structure the winter bird community in the dry scrub forest of Guanica, Puerto Rico"?
  
  
• 2005:
  • Frank Rheindt, University of Melbourne, "Systematics and character evolution in the Elaenia albiceps complex".
  • Daniel A. Levitis, UC Berkeley, "Chemical defense in birds: Linking diet, toxicity and defense".
  
  
• 2004:
  • Johel Chaves-Campos, Purdue University, "Factors promoting philopatry in ocellated antbirds".
  • Melissa Bowlin, Princeton University, Wing shape and energy efficiency in the migratory Swainson's thrush".
  
  
• 2003:
  • Sarah Huber, “Performance tradeoffs in the flight song displays of Melospiza melodia”
  • Beth Gulas, “A phylogenetic review of the Pelecaniformes”
  • Jennifer Long, “Hormonal and cellular mechanisms of increased lipid synthesis during migratory fattening in the Dark-eyed Junco”
    
    
• 2002:
  • Mark Haussman, Iowa State University, “How do long-lived birds delay senescence – development of appropraite models and techniques”
  • James Rivers, University of California-Santa Barbara, “An investigation of the proximate factors that influence begging behavior in the Brown-headed cowbird”
    
    
• 2001:
  • David Logue, Colorado State University, “A new approach to determine the function of duetting in a tropical wren”
  • Keneth Feeley, Duke University, “Factors influencing the diversity and abundance of breeding birds in isolated habitat fragments”
  • Andrea Smith, Queens University, “Evolutionary history of the band-rumped storm petrel: a test of sympatric speciation in sea birds”
    
    
• 2000:
  • Kazuya Naoki, Louisiana State University, “Community Evolution of Tangara Tanagers in the Neotropics”
  • Alexis Blackmer, UC Davis, “An Energetic Explanation for Differences in Individual Quality in Leach’s Storm-Petrels”
    
    

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