Students
ESP-GSA Travel Grant Award Recipients
The following is a list of ESP-GSA Travel Grant Award Winners by semester. To view the abstracts of any of the work below, please download the full document (PDF).
Fall 2016
Lisa LaCivita
Conference: 2016 ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services Linking Science, Practice and Decision Making)
Title: County-Wide Amphibian Monitoring for Watershed Condition & Public Engagement
Spring 2016
Kate Malpelli
Conference: Association of American Geographers
Title: A spatial and temporal analysis of human-black bear conflict in Virginia
Fall 2015
Elly Roland
Conference: Society for Marine Mammalogy
Why not whaling data: Using energetics models to address population consequences of behavioral disturbance
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Michelle Ryan
Conference: Water Resources Conference of the Virginias
Title: Geospatial analysis of the mystery snail Bellamya spp. (Gastropoda; Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae) in the Potomac River Watershed
Spring 2015
Manuela Dal Forno
Conference: Botany 2015 – Science and Plants for People
Photobiont versus mycobiont diversity: A case study of the lichen symbiosis in the Dictyonema clade
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High levels of endemism in Galapagos Islands basidiolichens of the Dictyonema clade: An updated assessment including molecular data and taxonomic novelties
Manuela Dal Forno, Robert Lücking, Frank Bungartz, and James D. Lawrey
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Rachel Golden
Conference: 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology
Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in the United States, 1900 – 2014
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Dana McCoskey
Conference: 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology
Molecular identification of the wood thrush diet and validation of a protocol for studies of avian diets
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Amanda Sills
Conference: American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting 2015
Trends in Ichthyoplankton Assemblage Structures in a Recovering Freshwater Tidal Embayment
Fall 2014
Tunde Adebola
Conference: Ecopath 30 years
Reducing Anthropogenic Impacts on Nigerian Costal Fisheries Resources
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Peter Jacobs
Conference: AGU Fall Meeting
1) It Ain’t (Just) the Heat, It’s the Humanity: Increasing Public Understanding of Scientific Consensus and Its Role in Climate Literacy
2) Putting the Past to Work: Driving Ecosystem Models with Mid-Pliocene Patterns of Warming
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Jenell Walsh-Thomas
Conference: AGU Fall Meeting
Assessing the Use of Metaphors to Facilitate and Improve the Effectiveness of Climate Change Communication
Spring 2014
Amy Johnson
Conference: North America Congress for Conservation Biology
Grassland and shrubland bird associations with native grasses in Virginia
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Samantha Oester
Conference: International Marine Conservation Congress
1) Using Social Media to Make Your Marine Science Matter
2) Talking the Talk: Giving Effective and Engaging Presentations
3) The Science of Conservation Communication: Effective Outreach through the Media and Collaborating with Communication Professionals
Fall 2013
Katheryn Patterson
Conference: 20th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Orca survivorship in captivity: Where are we now?
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Loren Petruny
Conference: North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium 2013 Annual Meeting
Getting it right for the right whale: a last opportunity for effective marine spatial planning along the US Atlantic coastline
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Chelsie Romulo
Conference: 2013 Conference of the Raptor Research Foundation/ I World Wide Raptor Research Conference
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Karin Schwartz
Conference: Conservation Breeding Specialist Group 2013
Integrated Data Management for Reintroductions and Conservation Translocations: Linking In Situ and Ex Situ Data Management for Conservation
Spring 2013
Lauren Augustine
Conference: 26th International Congress for Conservation Biology
Nutritional comparison of larval Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (hellbender) diets in captivity and in the wild
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Adrian Dahood
Workshop: Programming with EWE
[Attended as a participant to learn skills needed to conduct dissertation research]
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Mirian Tsuchiya
Conference: 93rd Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists
Phylogeography, demographic history and molecular diversity of two Neotropical species of family Procyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora): Nasua nasua and Procyon cancrivorus.
Fall 2012
Jessica Kordell
Conference: Red Panda SSP and Husbandry Course
Red Panda Research Past, Present and Future