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"
2009
Sarah Rockwell (University of Maryland). "Carry-over effects of the
non-breeding season on spring arrival, reproductive success, and annual
survival in the endangered Kirtland’s warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)"
Leah Culp (University of Maine). "Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed
Sparrow (Ammodramus caudacutus)
Habitat Selection and Habitat Quality in Tidally Restricted Marshes"
Nick Van Lanen (Colorado State University). "Out With the Old
and In With the New? Investigating Competition Between Barred Owls (Strix
varia) and Northern Spotted Owls (Strix
occidentaliscaurina) Using a Playback Experiment"
Honorable Mention: Cecilia Leumas (Louisiana State University).
"Understanding colony formation of terns and skimmers on Gulf Coast barrier
islands: an experimental approach"
