Listed here are the people awarded the McGinnies Fellowship in past
years, along with the current position, contact
information, year awarded, their department,
and the title or subject of their thesis.
Adrian M. Vega
Ph.D. Student |
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
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Year Won: 2006
Department of Wildlife Conservation and Management |
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Dissertation:
(ongoing) |
Kimberly A. Franklin
Ph.D. Student |
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
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Year Won: 2005
Insect Science Interdisciplinary
Program |
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Dissertation: (ongoing) |
Charles A. Price
Ph.D. Student |
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
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Year Won: 2005
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: |
Jessica M. Cable
Postdoctoral Research Associate |
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY |
Phone: 307-766-3261
Email: jcable1@uwyo.edu
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Year Won: 2004
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation:
Discovering the Late Quaternary vegetation
and climatic history of the Southwestern
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands from fossil rodent
middens. |
Camille Holmgren
Ph.D. Student |
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ |
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Year Won: 2003
Department of Geosciences Desert Botanical Laboratory |
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Dissertation:
Precipitation Effects on Soil Carbon Cycling in the Sonoran Desert.
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Nathan B. English
Ph.D. Student |
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ |
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Year Won: 2003
Department of Geosciences |
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Dissertation:
Thysiological basis of isotopic variation
in Giant Saguaro: Are responses to climate
recorded in spines? |
David Patrick Brown
Assistant Professor
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University New Hampshire
Geography and New Hampshire State Climatology
James Hall Room 127
Durham, NH 03824 |
Phone: 603-862-7052
Fax: 603-862-2649
Email: david.brown@unh.edu |
Year Won: 2002
Geography and Regional Development |
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Dissertation: Analyzing the nature and causes
of winter season precipitation variability within the Southwest
United States.
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Erika Geiger
Ph.D. Student |
The University of Arizona
School of Natural Resources
Biological Sciences East Room 226C
Tucson, AZ USA
85721 |
Email: elg@ag.arizona.edu |
Year Won: 2002
School of Renewable Natural Resources |
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Dissertation: The influence of fire and nonnative grasses
on native grassland communities. |
Andrea Litt
Ph.D. Student |
The University of Arizona
School of Natural Resources
104 Biological Sciences East
Tucson, AZ USA 85721 |
Email: arlitt@ag.arizona.edu |
Year Won: 2001
School of Renewable
Natural Resources |
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Dissertation: Interactions of fire and lovegrass
invasion and the concomitant effects on small mammals and
invertebrates using a long-term manipulative field experiment
at Fort Huachuca Military Reservation |
Timothy Shanahan |
The University of Arizona
Department of Geosciences
Gould-Simpson Bldg. - GS 346
1040 E. 4th St.
Tucson, AZ USA 85721-0077 |
Email: tshanaha@geo.arizona.edu |
Year Won: 2001
Department of Geological Sciences |
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Dissertation: Reconstructing a long-term,
high-resolution record of aridity and dust production in the
West African Sahel and the Sahara from lacustrine sediments
from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana |
Kevin Hultine
Post Doctoral Research Associate |
The University of Utah
Department of Biology
257 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT USA 84112-0840 |
Phone: 801-581-3545
Fax: 801-581-4665
Email: hultine@biology.utah.edu |
Year Won: 2000
Renewable Natural
Resource Studies |
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Dissertation: The interaction between the hydrology
of riparian ecosystems and the distribution and function of
plant root systems |
Tamara Wilson
Ph.D. Student |
The University of Arizona
Department of Geography
Harvill Bldg. Box 2
PO Box 210076
Tucson, AZ USA 85721-0076 |
Phone: 520-621-1652
Email: tswilson@email.arizona.edu
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Year Won: 2000
Geography and Regional Development |
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Dissertation: The use of packrat midden analysis
in the reconstruction of vegetation history from central Baja,
California |
Juliann Eve Aukema |
David Smith Fellow for the Nature
Conservancy
International Institute of Tropical Forestry
Jardin Botanico Sur
1201 Calle Ceiba
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00926-1119 |
Email: jeaukema@ncsu.edu |
Year Won: 1999
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology |
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Dissertation: The dispersal and spatial patterns
of the parasitic desert mistletoe and their relationship with
their host trees and the birds that disperse their seeds. |
Donald A. Falk
Research Associate |
The University of Arizona
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
105 W. Stadium
Tucson, AZ USA 85721
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Phone: 520-626-7201
Fax: 520-621-8229
Email: dafalk@ltrr.arizona.edu
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Year Won: 1998
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Forest ecology |
Keirith Snyder
Plant Physiologist |
USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental
Range
Box 30003, MSC 3JER, NMSU
Las Cruces, NM USA 88003-0003 |
Phone: 505-646-3584
Fax: 505-646-5889
Email: kasnyder@nmsu.edu |
Year Won: 1997
Renewable Natural
Resource Studies |
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Dissertation: Mechanisms that determine woody
species distribution in semi-arid riparian areas and root allocation
patterns of different functional types |
Elise Pendall |
The University of Wyoming
Department of Botany, 3165
Aven Nelson 110A
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY USA 82071 |
Phone: 307-766-6293
Email: pendall@uwyo.edu
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Year Won: 1996
Geosciences |
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Dissertation: Effects of climatic seasonality
on the stable isotopic composition of plant cellulose and potential
for paleoclimatic reconstruction |
Maria J. Clauss |
Department of Genetics
and Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Hans-Knoll-Straße 8
D-07745
Jena, Germany |
Email: clauss@ice.mpg.de |
Year Won: 1995
Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Evolution of life
history strategies of plants |
Jake F. Weltzen
Assistant Professor |
The University of
Tennessee
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
569 Dabney Hall
1416 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN USA 37996-1610 |
Phone: 865-974-3065
Fax: 865-974-3067
Email: jweltzin@utk.edu |
Year Won: 1994
Renewable Natural Resources |
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Dissertation: Ecology of semi-desert
grasslands and savannahs |
Sharon Helen Blendenbender
Rangeland Management Specialist |
USDA Forest Service
Coronado National Forest Sierra vista Ranger District
5990 S. Hwy. 92
Hereford, AZ USA 85615 |
Phone: 520-378-0311
ext. 2837
Email: sbiedenbender@fs.fed.us
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Year Won: 1993
Renewable
Natural Resources |
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Dissertation: Germination requirements
of Arizona native perennial grasses and their establishment
in existing stands of Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees |
Franco Biondi
Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Geography |
University of Nevada,
Reno
Department of Geography
Mail Stop 154
Reno, NV USA 89557-0048 |
Phone: 775-784-6921
Fax: 775-784-1058
Email: fbiondi@unr.edu |
Year Won: 1992
Renewable
Natural Resources |
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Dissertation: Spatial and temporal
reconstruction of twentieth century growth trends in a naturally
seeded pine forest |
Peter K. Van de Water |
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. EPA, Room 100
200 S.W. 35th St. Room 100
Corvallis, OR USA 97333 |
Phone: 520-621-1608
Fax: 520-621-8229
Email: pvandewater@usgs.gov |
Year Won: 1991
Geosciences |
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Dissertation: Morphological changes
in Pinus flexilis needles across the Pleistocene-Holocene
boundary due to atmospheric carbon dioxide increases |
Catherine E. Pake
Biology Instructor |
Portland Community
College
Biology and Environmental Science
Rock Creek Campus, Room 7-202
PO Box 1
Portland, OR USA 97280-0990 |
Phone: 503-614-7416
Email: cpake@pcc.edu
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Year Won: 1990
Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Sonoran Desert annual
plants: Empirical tests of models of coexistence and persistence
in a temporally variable environment |
Marissa Pantastico
Biology and Microbiology Faculty |
Los Angeles Trade
Technical College
Science and Math Department
400 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA USA 90015 |
Email: pantasmc@trade.laccd.edu |
Year Won: 1989
Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Competition in desert
winter annuals: Effects of spatial and temporal variation |
Gordon A. Fox
Assistant Professor |
The Universoty of
South Florida
Department of Biology & Department of Environmental
Science & Policy
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL USA 33620-5200 |
Phone: 813-974-7352
Fax: 813-974-3263
Email: gfox@cas.usf.edu |
Year Won: 1988
Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Adaptation, history,
and development in the evolution of a desert annual life history |
Michael J. Sanderson
Professor |
University of California
at Davis
Section of Evolution & Ecology
Division of Biological Sciences
5348 Storer Hall
Davis, CA USA 95616 |
Phone: 530-754-9229
Email: mjsanderson@ucdavis.edu
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Year Won: 1988
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Patterns of homoplasy
in North American Astragalus |
Judith Xiutzal Becerra
Assistant Professor |
The University of Arizona
Department of Entomology
Forbes Bldg., Room 410
PO Box 210036
Tucson, AZ USA 85721-0036 |
Phone: 520-621-9397
Email: becerra@ag.arizona.edu
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Year Won: 1987
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: Adaptations to ecological
interaction |
James R. Malusa |
Contract Ecology
Organ
Pipe Cactus National Monument
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Year Won: 1986
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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Dissertation: The phylogeny and
water relations of pinyon in relation to the vicariance biogeography
of the Southwest |
Julio L. Betancourt
Adjunct Associate Professor |
The University of Arizona
Desert Laboratory
U.S. Geological Survey
1675 W. Anklam Rd. |
Phone: 520-670-6821
ext. 107
Fax: 520-670-6806
Email: jlbetanc@usgs.gov |
Year Won: 1985
Geosciences |
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Dissertation: Tucson's
Santa Cruz River and the arroyo legacy |
