Joseph Grinnell Student Award Recipients
2009
Judit Ungvari-Martin, University of Florida, "Bird
communities along a tropical soil productivity gradient: bottom-up
effects examined by integrating ecology, behavior and genetics"
Matthew Wilkins, University of Colorado, "Multimodal
signaling and the evolution of reproductive isolation in two sympatric
subspecies of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica"
2008
Michael Butler, Arizona State University, "The effect of
early-life challenges and carotenoids intake on adult immune function and
coloration in mallards"
Nancy Chen, Cornell University, "MHC and Florida Scrub-jays:
mechanisms maintaining adaptive genetic variation in natural populations"
Christopher Tonra, University of Maine, "The physiological
underpinnings of seasonal interactions: does winter habitat limit breeding
readiness in a Neotropical migrant songbird?"
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 appropriate 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”
