Congratulations to the following 2005/2006 grant and fellowship recipients

Monica Araya has received the John F. Enders Fellowship from Yale University. Her doctoral dissertation analyzes drivers for corporate environmental disclosure in Latin America--with a focus on large corporations from Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. She also received the Summer Language Institute Fellowship from the Yale Graduate School as well as a summer scholarship from the Yale Portuguese Department to support her language training in Brazil. Her major advisor is Professor Daniel Esty.

Rebecca Ashley received the P.E.O. Scholar Award. P.E.O. International, founded in 1869, provides loans, scholarships, and grants to international and U.S. women pursuing graduate degrees. She has also received funding from the World Cocoa Foundation and from the U.S. Agency for International Development's International Agricultural Research Center Technical Services Program. These awards will fund her research on cocoa farmers and forest degradation in Ghana. Her major advisor is Professor William Burch.

Weslynne Ashton received a Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale award for her summer research and travel to Sweden and Denmark. Weslynne is exploring how an ecological framework can be applied to regional industrial systems, with particular attention to community composition. Her major advisor is Professor Thomas Graedel.

Nicole Ardoin has received a grant from the Project AWARE Foundation, a non-profit organization representing the SCUBA diving industry. She also received a John F. Enders Fellowship from Yale University and a Summer Academic Funding Award from the Yale Professional and Graduate Student Senate (GPSS). Her doctoral work examines the efficacy of using a larger scale to involve local communities in conservation efforts, particularly through environmental education strategies. Her research uses three ecologically, geographically, socially, and culturally diverse case studies--the Galapagos Islands, the Klamath-Siskiyou, and the Chesapeake Bay--to examine the scale at which residents of high-priority ecoregions perceive of and care about their places. Her major advisor is Professor Stephen Kellert.

Graeme Auld has received a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada to conduct doctoral research on market-driven certification programs. He proposes to analyze both market power and the health benefits of certified products to understand how and whether certification programs can gain lasting support. His major advisor is Professor Benjamin Cashore.

Jennifer Balch has been awarded a Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research Fellowship. Jennifer is also a National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow. Her doctoral research focuses on how fire influences the transition from forest to savanna in the Brazilian Amazon. Her major advisors are Professors Lisa Curran and Dan Nepstad.

Rebecca Barnes received the EPA STAR Fellowship. Her doctoral research is looking at the feasibility of using stable isotopes (nitrogen & oxygen) to trace point and non-point sources of nitrogen to estuaries. Her major advisor is Professor Peter Raymond.

Cristina Balboa received a fellowship from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Environmental Leadership Program. Her dissertation research examines the new governance roles played by transnational conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in developing country conservation, and the accountability mechanisms that tie them to resource-dependent communities. This research aims to bring science to an otherwise normative topic and improve the likelihood of long-term conservation success. Her major advisor is Professor Benjamin Cashore.

Maura Bozeman has been awarded a Yale Center for Biospheric Studies Center for Field Ecology Fellowship, which will help her pursue her research on autotrophic respiration on an ecosystem scale. Her major advisor is Professor Peter Raymond.

Janette Bulkan has received a Coca Cola World Fund at Yale Grant to pursue summer research in Guyana and Surinam. Her major advisor is Professor Michael Dove.

Marina Campos has received a John Perry Miller Fund Grant for her summer research. She has also received funding from the Yale Agrarian Studies Program. Her major advisor is Professor Michael
Dove.

David Ellum has received a Graduate Student Research Grant from the New England Botanical Society. Dave investigates the effects of timber management on understory floristic patterns at the landscape-, patch-, and plant-levels. His major advisor is Professor Mark Ashton.

Alissa Hamilton has received the Annie's Homegrown Environmental Studies Scholarship. Her major advisor is Professor John Wargo.

Iona Hawken is a Cullman Fellow. She has also received summer funding from the Yale Agrarian Studies Program and the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology. She has also been awarded the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Fellowship this year.

Manja Holland has been awarded the EPA STAR Fellowship starting in 2005. She has also been awarded a http://www.yale.edu/hixon/" target="_blank">Hixon Fellowship from Yale’s Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, two grants from the http://www.yale.edu/yibs/" target="_blank">Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and a grant from the Declining Amphibian Population Task Force. Manja is investigating the effects of urbanization on macroparasite life cycles and amphibian disease. Her major advisor is Professor David Skelly.

Shafqat Hussain has been awarded a Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research Fellowship, for his research, "Landscapes of Ideology: Colonial and Post-colonial Roots of National Parks". His major advisors are Professors Michael Dove and Carol Carpenter.

Holly Jones has received a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention for 2005 and 2006, and a Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Center for Field Ecology Pilot Study Grant for her summer research. Her research asks how invasive mammal invasions affect ecosystem dynamics on offshore New Zealand islands. She will investigate the role of seabird social attraction as a means to restore previously invaded island communities. Her major advisor is Professor Oswald Schmitz.

Diana Karwan has been granted funding from the Graduate Student Assembly Conference Travel Fund. She will be attending the Symposium on Science and Management of Headwater Streams in the Pacific Northwest, November 17-18, in Corvallis, Oregon. Her major advisors are Professors Chadwick Oliver and James Saiers.

Kelly Levin received a MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale pre-dissertation grant for summer travel to Eastern Europe to study certification of protected areas. Her major advisor is Professor Benjamin Cashore.

Helen Mills part of a research team that received a grant from the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) of the US Department of Agriculture and the US Forest Service for a project which will investigate top down (climate) and bottom up (species composition, topography, environment, and human activity) controls on fire regimes in Big Bend National Park, the Davis Mountains, and the Maderas del Carmens Protected Area. Local-, landscape-, and regional-scale fire and vegetation dynamics will be derived from data on historical climates, fire regimes, forest structure, and species composition. This information will be used to implement fire and vegetation management practices and to predict effects of recent changes in climate and fire on ecosystem structure and function. Her major advisor is Professor Ann Camp. More information about the JFSP program can be found at http://jfsp.nifc.gov/index.html. Her major advisor is Professor Ann Camp.

Nicholas Muller has received a grant from the Glaser Foundation. His doctoral research investigates the damages of air pollution in the United States. His major advisor is Professor Robert Mendelsohn.

Anastasia O'Rourke has received a John F. Enders Fellowship from Yale University. Her doctoral research investigates private equity financing of CleanTech high growth ventures in North America. Her major advisor is Professor Daniel Esty.

Jonathan Padwe has received the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, and a research fellowship from the Center for Khmer Studies in Cambodia. His doctoral research examines changes to the agricultural and cultural practices of highland minorities in Cambodia following the Cambodian genocide. His major advisor is Professor Michael Dove.

Catherine Picard has been awarded a Dreyfus Memorial Scholarship, which is administered by the DACOR Bacon House Foundation. Catherine's research interests are biodiversity conservation, transboundary protected areas and the intersection of human rights and natural resource use. She also received support from Yale’s Program on Agrarian Studies and from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale to travel to Tanzania to study protected areas. Her major advisors are Professors William Burch and Timothy Clark.

Alexandra Ponette received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and a Compton Fellowship. Her doctoral research examines cloud forest fragmentation, agroecosystems, and plant diversity in central Veracruz, Mexico. Her major advisors are Professors Lisa Curran and Kathleen Weathers.

Steve Rhee has been awarded an EPA STAR Fellowship for his research addressing the ways in which forestry institutions in Indonesia (government, international donors, NGOs, communities) articulate and justify priorities and practices related to forest dependent communities’ rights and access to forest resources, which have historically been the domain of the state. His major advisor is Professor Michael Dove.

A World Bank Research Grant for Climate Change Impact Studies in Latin America is funding Niggol Seo's research on the economics of climate change in Latin America. He has also received a United Nations Global Environment Facility Project Travel Grant to present animal husbandry studies in eleven countries in Africa. His major advisor is Professor Robert Mendelsohn.

Shaila Seshia recieved a summer research grant from Yale’s Program on Agrarian Studies and a MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale pre-dissertation grant. Her major advisors are Professors Michael Dove and Helen Sui.

Jeff Sigler has received a John F. Enders Fellowship from Yale University. His research investigates anthropogenic and natural emissions of mercury in the northeastern United States. His major advisor is Professor Xuhui Lee.

Mark Urban received a John Perry Miller Grant.
His major advisor is Professor David Skelly.