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Graduate Student Awards
2008 Awards
- Shannon Savage was one of 6 students in the U.S. that received a fellowship to participate in the Vespucci Summer Institute in Fiesole, Italy this summer. The funding is through the Buffalo IGERT program in Geographic Information Science.
- Tyler Smith was awarded a Montana Water Center Student Research Fellowship in 2008.
- Jerome Schleier won first place in the Student Paper Competition at the Annual Meeting of the American Mosquito Control Association held in Reno, Nevada in March. His paper was titled, "Mosquito Management and Risk: Environmental Concentrations of Insecticides and thier Meaning."
- Kelsey Jencso was awarded a Student Paper Award for his contributions to the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. His paper was entitled, "Topographic Controls on Hillslope-Riparian Water Table Continuity in a Set of Nested Catchments, Northern Rocky Mountains, Montana."
- Tyler Smith was awarded a Student Paper Award for his contributions to the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco as well. He wrote, "A Bayesian Uncertainty Framework for Conceptual Snowmelt and Hydrologic Models Applied to the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest."
- Markus Dieser was selected to attend a symposium for the Next Generation of Polar Researchers in May of 2008 in Colorado Springs, CO. There were over 100 international applicants and only 36 were chosen.
2007 Awards
- Markus Dieser received an award for the best poster presentation at the 30th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL) in Montreal, Canada. His poster was entitled, "Microbial diversity and the role of bacterial pigments as cryo- or UV protectants in Pony Lake, Antarctica."
- Diego Riveros was awarded the prestigious AGU Horton Research Award for 2007. This award is granted by the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section which draws from graduate students worldwide and chooses 2 graduate students annually based on their Ph.D. research. Diego's NSF sponsored research focused on watershed hydrologic-carbon cycle linkages. He is the first MSU student to receive this grant of $10,000.
2006 Awards
- Markus Dieser received a Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research which partially provided support for him to travel to Dave Kirchman's lab at the Universiy of Delaware to receive training in the Micro-FISH technique.
- Marjolein Schat, an LRES Ph.D. student, was awarded first place for her student scientific paper presentation in the Ecology and Behavior: Subsection Biological Control session at the 2006 Entomological Society of America meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- LRES Ph.D. student Mica Buteler was awarded second place for her student scientific paper presentation in the Crop Protection session at the 2006 Entomological Society of America meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Jill Mikucki, a past LRES doctoral student, was awarded the MSU Foundation Graduate Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Doctoral Program.
- Tim Covino, an advisee of Brian McGlynn, received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2005 AGU meeting in San Francisco. His paper was entitled, "Groundwater-Stream Interactions in a Mountain-Valley Transition: Impacts on Catchment Hydrologic Response and Stream Water Chemistry."
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