The fifteenth annual Mewaldt-King Student Research Awards will be presented by the Cooper Ornithological Society at the 2007 annual meeting. These $1,000 awards are designated in the memory of L. Richard Mewaldt and James R. King to support research that relates to the conservation of birds. Research may be in any area of ornithology, but studies that involve demographics, breeding biology, or dispersal biology may be particularly relevant, especially if the species is endangered, threatened, or otherwise "sensitive." Studies of species from threatened ecosystems (e.g. old growth forest, wetlands) are also of particular interest:

• 1993:
  • Troy I. Wellicome – “The Effects of Prey Supply on the Reproduction of Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia)”
    
    
• 1994:
  • Angela Hodgson – “Juvenile Dispersal and Habitat Use in the Mexican Spotted Owl”
  • Jennifer Delisle – “Avian Densities and Grasshopper Sparrow Paring on Conservation Reserve Land”
    
    
• 1995:
  • Juan Esteban Martinez Gomez – “Demography and Breeding Ecology of the Socorro Mockingbird”
  • Todd J. Underwood – “Methods of Estimating and Indexing Productivity: A Test with a Local Wood Thrush Population”
  • James Berkelman – “Habitat Requirements of the Madagascar Fish Eagle”
    
    
• 1996:
  • Mitschka J. Hartley – “Effects of Forest Management on Songbird Site Fidelity: An Experimental Study”
  • William R. McClain – “Effects of Alternate Gypsy Moth Treatments on the Diet, Foraging Behavior, and Nest Provisioning of Two Species of Vireo in Central Appalachia”
    
    
• 1997:
  • James R. Miller – “Avian Diversity and Predator Assemblages Along a Gradient of Urbanization”
  • David P. Arsenault – “Effective Dispersal and Conservation of Fragmented Populations of the Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) in New Mexico”
    
    
• 1998:
  • Paul G. Rodewald – “Habitat Use and Selection by Neotropical Migratory Songbirds during Migration”
  • Daniel A. Kluza – “Effect of Anthropogenic Landscape Disturbances on Bird Assemblages in Mexican Dry Forests”
    
    
• 1999:
  • Heather Hinam – “The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation and Slope on the Spatial Distribution of Owls in the Western Upland Region of Manitoba, Canada”
  • Barbara M. Pezzanite – “Coastal Tundra and Lesser Snow Geese Habitat Recovery and Foragaing Behavior”
  • Benjamin H. Becker – “Assessing Seasonal, Annual, and Centurial Dietary Patterns of the Marbled Murrelet (Alcidae: Brachyramphus marmoratus) Using Stable Isotope Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen”
  • Brian Linkhart – “Source/sink Habitats of Flammulated Owls: Inferring Territory Quality from Long-Term Demographics”
  • Laura Stenzler – “Dispersal Distance and Genetics in Two Passerines”
    
    
• 2000:
  • William A. Mackin – “The Population Biology and Ecology of Audubon’s Shearwaters at Long Cay, Exumas, Bahamas”
  • Lesley J. Evans Ogden – “Habitat Selection Within an Agricultural Matrix by Shorebirds Wintering on the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia”
    
    
• 2001:
  • Jill L. Deppe – “Selection of Stopover Habitat by Trans-Gulf Nearctic-Neotropical Migrant Landbirds in Yucatan, Mexico”
  • Amanda M. Hale – “Metapopulation Approach to Understanding the Effect of Sociality, Population Dynamics, and Persistence”
  • Kristen Ruegg – “Using Molecular Markers to Link Breeding and Wintering Populations of Swainson’s Thrush, a Neotropical Migrant”
    
    
• 2002:
  • Ginia Zimmerman – “Cuba’s Role as a Stopover Site During the Fall Migration of Swallow-tailed Kites (Elanoides forficatus)”
  • David Des Rochers – “Avian Responses to Created Tidal Wetlands”
  • Scott Schlossberg – “Effects of Livestock Grazing on Birds: A New Approach”
    
    
• 2003:
  • David Cerasale – “Physiological Assessment of Avian Refueling Rates During Stopover”
  • Ryan Norris – “Linking Summer and Winter Events in a Long Distance Migratory Landbird”
    
    
• 2004:
  • Victoria Garcia – “Effects of food and ectoparasites on age of natal dispersal in burrowing owls”
  • Shannon Bouton – “The Effect of Multiple Environmental Stressors on the Physiology, Behavior and Development of Nestling Cliff Swallows”
    
    
• 2005:
  • Lori Hargrove – "Avian demographics at a chaparral-desert scrub ecotone undergoing rapid climate change"
  • Nathan Gregory – "The Role of Anthropogenic Fire and Livestock Grazing in Sustaining Avian Diversity in East African Savannas"
  • Jherime L. Kellermann – "Resident and migratory Neotropical bird abundance, distribution, and predation of an economic insect pest on Jamaican coffee farms"
    
    
• 2006:
  • Andrea Townsend – "Effects of West Nile Virus on the mating strategies of American Crows: a behavioral modification of infection risk?"
  • Stefan Woltmann – “Dispersal of Myrmeciza exsul in a fragmented tropical landscape”
  • Kathi L. Borgmann – “Seasonal variation in avian nesting success”
    
    
• 2007:
  • Jennifer Mortensen – "Conservation ecology and social organization of the endangered White-breasted Thrasher on St. Lucia, West Indies"
  • Trina Schneider Bayard – "Testing the role of social cues in habitat selection behavior"
  • Erica N. Spotswood – "The impact of an invasive plant on the population biology of the Gray-Green Fruit-Dove in Moorea, Polynesia"
    
    
• 2008:
  • Jason Townsend – "Mercury accumulation and food web biomagnification in two forest-dwelling songbirds of New York’s upland forests"
  • Nicole Michel – "Mechanisms of avian understory insectivore population decline in a tropical rainforest reserve: evidence for trophic cascades?"
  • Heather Major – "Recovery of nocturnal burrow-nesting seabirds after the eradication of introduced predators"
    

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