Joseph Grinnell Student Award Recipients
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”
