Student projects supported by the Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research through the Global Change Student Research Grant Competition

2009:

• Christopher Barger, Biology & Wildlife, UAF
  “Mechanisms determining resilience of common murre (Uria aalge) populations to climate variability in the Bering Sea.”
• Robert Burgess, Biology & Wildlife, UAF
  “Climate change impacts on microbial lignocellulose decomposers in Alaskan boreal forest soil.”
• Katrina Knott, Biology & Wildlife, UAF
  “Eco-physical biomarkers and contaminants in a changing environment: Using stable isotope analysis to assess the biological significance of maternal transfer of contaminants in polar bears.”
• Robert McNabb, Geology & Geophysics, UAF
  “Monitoring and analysis of calving events at Franklinbreen, Vestfonna, Svalbard and Columbia Glacier, Alaska.”
• Marc Mueller-Stoffels, Physics, UAF
  “The ice-albedo feedback from a complex systems point of view.”
• Barbara Truessel, Geology & Geophysics, UAF
  “Seasonality of snow line retreat on a lake calving glacier”

2010:

• Timothy Bartholomaus, Geology & Geophysics, UAF
  “Physical oceanography and tidewater glacier dynamics at Yahtse Glacier, Alaska.”
• Daniella Della-Giustina, Physics, UAF
  “Regional modeling of Greenland outlet glaciers with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model.”
• Michael Garvin, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, UAF
  “Whole mitochondrial genome analysis to uncover detailed genetic structure of chum salmon populations and possible historical refugia.”
• Samuel Herreid, Geology & Geophysics, UAF
  “Effects of debris cover on glaciers in Alaska.”
• Joshua Holbrook, Mechanical Engineering, UAF
  “Determining anisotropic thermal conductivity of snow with needle probe measurements.”
• Eunkyoung Hong, College of Engineering & Mines (Interdisciplinary), UAF
  “Estimating damages costs for Alaska infrastructure at risk from climate change.”
• Santosh Panda, Geology & Geophysics, UAF
  “Modeling permafrost dynamics along the Alaska Highway corridor, Interior Alaska.”
• Jill-Marie Seymour, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, UAF
  “Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) feeding ecology and possible links to Trichinellosis.”
• Kyle Wendler, Mechanical Engineering, UAF
  “Preservation of traditional ice cellars in permafrost.”