Student projects supported by the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research ("old CIFAR") through the Global Change Student Research Grant Competition

2008:

• Grant Shimer, Geology & Geophysics,
  “A paleoenvironmental analysis of lake sediments from Canyon Lake, Copper River basin, Alaska.”
• Matthew Klick, Resource Economics,
  “Corporate social responsibility and community resilience: A case study of Norway's Snohvit gas complex.”

2007:

• Jason Amundson, Geology & Geophysics,
  “Investigating the climatic parameters influencing calving rates of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland.”
• Stefanie Bourne, Atmospheric Science Program,
  “Dynamical downscaling over Alaska and its applications.”
• Cody Strathe, Anthropology,
  “Variability in marine ecosystem productivity and effects on seal abundance, morphology, and subsistence hunting throughout the Holocene in the Shelikof Strait, Alaska.”

2006:

• Jason Addison, Geology & Geophysics,
  “Late Quaternary environmental change in the Gulf of Alaska.”
• Nathan Coutsoubos, Biology & Wildlife,
  “Tundra-nesting shorebirds in relation to landscape transformation and climate change.”
• Dawn Magness, Biology & Wildlife,
  “A survey of management strategies linking global change to decision-making in the National Wildlife Refuge System.”
• Shannon McNeeley, Anthropology,
  “Climate change and variability in interior Alaska: an interdisciplinary approach to data integration and synthesis for establishing regional patterns relevant to stakeholders.”
• Katie Villano, Biology & Wildlife,
  “Assessing wildfire burn susceptibility to invasive plant colonization in black spruce forests of interior Alaska.”
• Blaine Spellman, Forest Sciences,
  “White sweetclover in Alaska: can this invasive affect the floodplain vegetative community?”

2005:

• Carrin Halffman, Anthropology,
  “Tracking mercury levels in the arctic through time using archaeological bone: initial method validation.”
• Hannah Clilverd, Institute of Arctic Biology,
  “Surface-subsurface hydrologic exchange and nitrogen transformations in the hyporheic zone of the Tanana River in Interior Alaska.”
• Emily Molhoek, Geology & Geophysics,
  “An 8 ky record of vegetation cover, fire history, and moisture availability in north-central Mongolia: impacts of global warming and aridification.”
• Holly McKinney, Anthropology,
  “Temporal variability of archaeologically deposited fish remains in the Gulf of Alaska: an assessment of human and natural impacts.”

2004:

• Cory Williams, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences,
  "Tufted puffins as biological indicators of forage fish availability in the western Gulf of Alaska"
• Pieter A.P. de Hart, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences,
  "Stable isotope analysis of Bowhead whale baleen as a biochemical recorder of shifts in migratory patterns during recent arctic environmental change"
• Susan B. Vanek, Anthropology,
  "The regulation of time, space and classification"