Mewaldt-King Award Recipients
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 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 Foraging 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 NewApproach”
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 (SUNY). "Mercury Accumulation and Food Web
Biomagnification in Two Forest-Dwelling Songbirds of New York’s Upland
Forests"
Nicole Michel (Tulane University). "Mechanisms of
avian understory insectivore population decline in a tropical
rainforest reserve: evidence for trophic cascades?"
Heather Major
(Simon Fraser University). "Recovery of nocturnal
burrow-nesting seabirds after the eradication of introduced predators"
Honorable Mention: Bridget Sousa
(University of Kentucky).
"The Effects of Grassland Restoration on Avian Mating Patterns"
