Grants from the March 15, 2004 Deadline
Alphabetical by Subject

Anthropology	Paleontology/Sedimentation
Behavioral Ecology/Ethology	Petrology/Geochemistry
Cell Biology/Biochemistry	Physics/Astronomy
Chemistry	Physiology/Functional Morphology
Computer Science/Mathematics	Psychology
Ecology	Systematics/Evolutionary Biology
Engineering	Tectonics/Geophysics
Hydrology/Geomorphology

Subject	Student	College / University	Title	Mentor
Anthropology	Kimberly Oakberg Allegretto	Brandeis University	The Role of maize in the development of sociopolitical complexity in the Central Mississippi Valley, A.D. 800-1200	Robert Zeitlin
Anthropology	Karen Lynn Baab	The Graduate Center, The City University of New York	Cranial Variation in Homo erectus	Eric Delson
Anthropology	Sarah Barr Barber	University of Colorado, Boulder	Early State Organization on the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico	Arthur Joyce
Anthropology	Tracy Kay Betsinger	Ohio State University	Gender-Based Health Differences in Medieval Poland	Clark Larsen
Anthropology	Chelsea Blackmore	University of California, Riverside	Quantitative Phosphorous Testing of Exterior Living Spaces as an Index of Social Identity	Wendy Ashmore
Anthropology	John Andrew Bunce	University of California, Davis	Ecological Consequences of Trichromatic Color Vision for Callicebus brunneus, a New World Monkey	Lynne Isbell
Anthropology	Margaret Chatham Crofoot	Harvard University	Distribution and Movement Patterns of Capuchin Monkeys on Barro Colorado Island, Panama	Richard Wrangham
Anthropology	Seth David Dobson	Washington University in St. Louis	Comparative Study of Facial Mobility in Nonhuman Anthropoids	Richard Smith
Anthropology	Matthew Ronald Freeman	University of Southern Mississippi	Social and Political Complexity at Deathly Silent Mound	Homer Jackson
Anthropology	Evan Stuart Grant	University of Arizona	Investigating human diet in northern Mongolia during the Pleistocene	John Olsen
Anthropology	Jandy Barbara Hanna	Duke University	Vertical climbing efficiency in primates	Daniel Schmitt
Anthropology	Andrea Laneece Hatch	University of Puget Sound	Musculoskeltal stress markers (MSM) as indicators of kneeling behavior in a Byzantine Jerusalem monastery	Susan Sheridan
Anthropology	Katherine Jane Hinde	University	Maternal Condition and Lactational Investment: Milk Composition in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	Joan Silk
Anthropology	Timothy Donovan Hollis	University of Massachusetts	An Elite Maya Residence in at Dos Hombres, Belize	Lauren Sullivan
Anthropology	James Andrew Kenworthy	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Enhancing the Digital Representation of Archaeological Landscapes:Microtopography & GIS	Clara Scarry
Anthropology	Susan Elizabeth Lofthouse	McGill University	Foxe Basin Archaeology Project	James Savelle
Anthropology	Heidi M. Luchsinger	Texas A&M University	Dating the Late Pleistocene Climate Reversal in Central Argentina	Michael Waters
Anthropology	Julie Gayle Markin	University of Georgia	Woodstock: Understanding Settlement, Subsistence and Political Change in the Late Woodland Southeast	David Hally
Anthropology	Kathleen Marie Muldoon	Washington University in St. Louis	Paleoecology of Ankilitelo: Implications for Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinctions	David Rasmussen
Anthropology	Eric Shane Nocerino	University of California, Santa Barbara	Functional Differences Between Upland and Lowland Neolithic Sites in Southern Germany	Michael Jochim
Anthropology	Colleen Hillary Nyberg	University of Missouri, Columbia	Social Support Networks and Child Morbidity in a Dominican Village	Mark Flinn
Anthropology	Jonathan Marcus Perry	Duke University	Investigation of the Anatomy of the Muscles of Mastication in Extant Strepsirhines and Reconstruction of these Muscles in Extinct Strepsirhines	Christine Wall
Anthropology	Christine Ann Phillips-Krawczak	University of Kansas	Population History of the Garifuna of Saint Vincent Island and Central America	Michael Crawford
Anthropology	Stanley Serafin	Tulane University	Violence and Site Abandonment: Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Collapse of Mayapan	John Verano
Anthropology	Nicole Regan Shelnut	University of South Florida	Isotopic Analysis of Mummies from Northwestern Argentina	Robert Tykot
Anthropology	Sara Kathryn Simon	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Effect of Socio-political Changes on Human Skeletal Remains from the Transitional Period (AD 800-950) in the Jequetepeque-Chaman region, Peru	Dale Hutchinson
Anthropology	Dustin Blake Stephens	University of California, Berkeley	Evolutionary Origins of Human Ethanol Intake in Primate Frugivory?	Robert Dudley
Anthropology	Laura Kathryn Stroik	Arizona State University	Patterns of dimorphism and allometry of the hominoid forelimb and the relationship of phylogeny, allometry, and function with interspecific pattern similarity	Kaye Reed
Anthropology	James Michael VanderVeen	Indiana University	Subsistence Patterns as Markers of Cultural Exchange: Spanish and Taíno Interactions at La Isabela	Geoffrey Conrad
Anthropology	John D. Wagner	University of New Mexico	Essential fatty acids and development in Ecuadorian children	Jane Lancaster
Anthropology	Tammy Yvonne Watkins	University of Georgia	The Agricultural Landscapes of the Maya in Northwestern Belize	Elois Ann Berlin
Anthropology	Vicki Lynn Wedel	University of California, Santa Cruz	Biological Effects of Slavery and Emancipation on Historical African Americans	Alison Galloway
Anthropology	Kimberly Denise Williams	Ohio State University	A Geospatial Bioarchaeological Perspective on Behavior, Activity Patterns, and Lifestyle in the Eastern Woodlands of North America	Clark Larsen
Anthropology	Alyson Gail Young	Ohio State University	Rethinking the role of infant development in health outcomes among the Datoga of Tanzania	Ivy Pike
Behavioral Ecology	Nicole Renee Abel	Gannon University	The influence of condition factor and body size on the vocalizations of male round gobies (Neogobius melanostomus)	Greg Andraso
Behavioral Ecology	Rachelle Martha Marie Adams	University of Texas	The Evolution of Social Parasitism in Megalomyrmex Ants	Ulrich Mueller
Behavioral Ecology	Rindy Christine Anderson	University of Miami	The cardiac response as a measure of song perception in the song sparrow Melospiza melodia	William Searcy
Behavioral Ecology	Susan L. Balenger	Towson University	Does extra-marital mating make bluebirds blue? Color and paternity in Mountain Bluebirds	L. Johnson
Behavioral Ecology	Oliver Mathias Beckers	University of Missouri, Columbia	Phenotypic plasticity of mate choice	Johannes Schul
Behavioral Ecology	Peter Edward Bouwma	Florida State University	The aposematic function of sound production in spiny lobsters	William Herrnkind
Behavioral Ecology	Jason Louis Cashmore	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Factors affecting site fidelity of a burrowing crayfish	Carla Caceres
Behavioral Ecology	Jennifer Louise Ciaccio	University of Miami	The ontogeny of feeding behavior in the lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris: the roles of experience and maturation in foraging skill acquisition of a generalist predator	Steven Green
Behavioral Ecology	Miranda Michelle Cooley	Oregon State University	Feather Choice In Tachycineta Swallows	Tara Robinson
Behavioral Ecology	Idelle Alvaree Cooper	Indiana University	Maintenance of the female color polymorphism in damselflies by negative frequency-dependent selection	Curtis Lively
Behavioral Ecology	Ana Paula Cutrera	National University of Mar del Plata	Intraspecific comparative study of the dispersal patterns in two populations of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum	Eileen Lacey
Behavioral Ecology	Paul Anthony De Luca	University of Missouri, Columbia	Patterns of mating and dispersal behavior in a treehopper	Reginald Cocroft
Behavioral Ecology	Verity Lynn Mathis	New Mexico State University	Conservation genetics of banner-tailed kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis): a molecular ecology perspective	Gary Roemer
Behavioral Ecology	Joel William McGlothlin	Indiana University	Static and dynamic sexual traits in dark-eyed juncos: evolutionary integration or alternative mating strategies?	Ellen Ketterson
Behavioral Ecology	Bridgette Faye Nace	California State University Northridge	Reproductive Behavior of Black Perch (Embiotoca jacksoni)	Larry Allen
Behavioral Ecology	Erin Amelia Olson	Idaho State University	Mating Strategies in the Female Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus investigator : a case of Intraspecific Brood Parasitism	Rosemary Smith
Behavioral Ecology	Michal Segoli	Ben Gurion University of the Negev	A risky mating: constraints on male reproductive success in a widow spider	Yael Lubin
Behavioral Ecology	Laura Rose Sharkey	University of Hawaii at Manoa	The Role of the Auditory System in the Recruitment of Larval Reef Fish	Timothy Tricas
Behavioral Ecology	Katherine Aina Shaw	Clark University	The evolution of phenotypically-plastic behavioral syndromes in the threespine stickleback adaptive radiation	Susan Foster
Behavioral Ecology	Christian Paul Soucier	Brooklyn College of the City University of New York	A potential mechanism for detecting water-born vibrations in the Chambered Nautilus	Jennifer Basil
Behavioral Ecology	Ellen K. Ter Haar	Central Michigan University	Predation and Nesting Activity of the Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) on Beaver Island, Michigan	James Gillingham
Behavioral Ecology	Javier delBarco Trillo	University of Memphis	Male meadow voles adjust their sperm investment in response to a risk of sperm competition	Matthew Parris
Behavioral Ecology	Paula Alejandra Trillo	University of Montana	Longterm Consequences of Brood Amalgamation in the Tortoise Beetle Acromis sparsa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)	Douglas Emlen
Behavioral Ecology	Michael Donald Wall	University of Sydney	The effect of foraging mode on snake ecology and evolution: evidence from an Australian legless lizard (Lialis burtonis)	Richard Shine
Behavioral Ecology	Jennifer Man-Ling Wang	University of California, Berkeley	Does Microbial Penetration Affect Hatching Success in Temperate Passerine Birds?	Steven Beissinger
Behavioral Ecology	Mark Andrew Westbrock	Wake Forest University	Adaptive sex allocation in the Nazca booby (Sula granti)	David Anderson
Behavioral Ecology	Elsa Kristen Youngsteadt	North Carolina State University	Behavioral and chemical ecology of Neotropical ant-gardens	Coby Schal
Behavioral Ecology	Dale Allyn Zaborowski	State University of West Georgia	Training Bobwhite to Increase Predator Recognition and Reaction Time	Carl Quertermus
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Thomas M Barry	University of New Hampshire	Molecular Investigations of Photobiology in the Green Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis	Charles Walker
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Cynthia Frances Chi	University of Massachusetts Amherst	An in vitro model to determine the mechanism by which statins and ubiquinone affect C2C12 myotubes	Priscilla Clarkson
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Elizabeth Marie Chislock	Pennsylvania State University	Regulation of Osteoblast Alkaline Phosphatase Activity by Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells	Andrea Mastro
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Vlad Alexandru Codrea	University of Texas at Austin	Computationally-Guided Approach to Augmenting the Genetic Code	Andrew Ellington
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Patrick David Curtis	University of Georgia	Biological Cyanide Production in Myxococcus xanthus	Lawrence Shimkets
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Hung Quoc Doan	University of Texas at Austin	Determining Reptilian Sex-Specific Markers Using AFLP	David Crews
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Janet Renee Donaldson	Mississippi State University	Involvement of RuvAB and RecG in the Recovery of Replication following UV-induced DNA Damage in Escherichia coli	Justin Courcelle
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Dragos Mihael Galusca	Emporia State University	Interaction between Hyperinsulinemia and Depressed Levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 on Neuronal Cell Survival in Alzheimer's Disease	Leland Sudlow
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Laura Judith Geffner	University of Buenos Aires	Direct PCR detection of Cryptosporidium parvum in human feces and environmental waters	Graciela Garbossa
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Andrea Marie Hanson	University of Colorado, Boulder	Investigating the effect of simulated microgravity and radiation on osteoblasts for the ultimate prediction of changes in long duration space flight	Virginia Ferguson
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Bo Jason Hayes	Middle Tennessee State University	The isolation and characterization of a novel Legionella-like amoeba pathogen from a cooling tower	Mary Farone
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Katherine Ann Heminger	Wright State University	MdmX Affects on Tumor Cell Gene Expression	Steven Berberich
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Basarab Gabriel Hosu	University of Missouri, Columbia	The Role of the cytoskeleton mechanotransduction: a study using magnetic tweezers	Gabor Forgacs
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Gera Marie Jochum	West Virginia University	Variations in Root Ginsenosides from Panax quinquefolius (American ginseng) Grown under Increased Temperature	Richard Thomas
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Jeremy Clinton Jones	University of Wisconsin - Madison	The Importance of TGF-B; in the Host Immune Response to Lethal H5N1 Influenza Infection	Stacey Schultz-Cherry
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Molishree Umesh Joshi	East Carolina University	The Use of E-selectin antagonist peptide to investigate the migration of exogenous endothelial cells to tumor vasculature	Kathryn Verbanac
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Alexander Kushnir	Yeshiva University	Determining the FKBP12.6 binding site on ryanodine receptor/Ca2+ release channels	Xander Wehrens
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Gang Li	University of California, Riverisde	Recruitment of TAF1 to DNA by acetylated p53	Xuan Liu
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Li Lu	Miami University of Ohio	Studies on Cold Resistance in Palms: Analysis of CBF-like (Cold Binding Factor) Genes	Kenneth Wilson
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Justin Brian Maxhimer	Rush University	Expression and Gene Regulation of Heparanase in Diabetic Nephropathy	Xiulong Xu
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Johanna Marie Missak	University of Nebraska at Omaha	Structural analysis of the 5' nontranslated region (5'NTR) in the genomic RNA of wild type and nonvirulent strains of the Coxsackie B3 virus	William Tapprich
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Jordan Mark Newell	Lebanon Valley College	Examination of the sequence requirements for the dimerization of guanosine-5'-monophosphate synthetase (GMPS)	Walter Patton
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Bozidar Purtic	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	The Role of the Immunological Synapse In T Cell Function	Christoph Wuelfing
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Marisa Marie Queen	Boise State University	Intraocular inflammation: Induction of epithelial cell-secreted proteases by neutrophil-derived Oncostatin M.	Cheryl Jorcyk
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Regina Danielle Ralston	University of Louisville	Non-Apoptotic Caspase-3 Activation in Zebrafish Cone Photoreceptors	Heywood Petry
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Mona Rezapour	University of California, Berkeley	Examining the Effect of Short-Term Treatment of Estrogen before Carcinogen Exposure	Rajkumar Lakshmanaswamy
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Mark Jeremy Rozmarynowycz	Lorain County Community College	Construction and Characterization of Synechocystis PCC 6803 mrgA and Phosphoglucomutase Bioreporters to be used to Detect Nutrient Availability in Natural Aquatic Environments	Kathryn Durham
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Sara Louise Sarkey	Loyola University Chicago	Extranuclear Androgen Receptors in Axons of the Adult Rat Brain	Lydia DonCarlos
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Erin Charlotte Tolhurst	University of California, Santa Barbara	The Role of Thrombospondin-4 in Retinal Development	Dennis Clegg
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Swapnil Vijay Vaidya	University of North Texas Health Science Center	Identification of a Novel Tumor Associated Ligand for the Natural Killer Cell Receptor 2B4	Porunelloor Mathew
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Maria Natalia Vergara	Miami University of Ohio	Retina regeneration and the role of FGFs	Katia Del Rio-Tsonis
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Nicholas K. Wadsworth	Idaho State University	Discovery, characterization, and specificity of antimicrobial activities found in burying beetle (Nicrophorus) secretions	Larry Farrell
Cell Biology / Biochemistry	Xiangrong Zhao	University of California, Berkeley	Test of relationship between polymorphisms in the glucocorticoid response element sequence in the proviral promoter of bovine leukemia virus and parity protection against human breast cancer	Gertrude Buehring
Chemistry	Pamilla J. Ball	University of Cincinnati	Investigating Electronic Communication Mediated by -stacks	William Connick
Chemistry	Timothy Morris Cofer	Tennessee Technological University	Selective Dissolution of Heavy Metals from Soils Utilizing Accelerated Solvent Extraction	Dale Ensor
Chemistry	Ashley Sue Dumas	Saint Anselm College	Quantitative Spectroscopic Characterization of Ancient Coins	Mary Kate Donais
Chemistry	Bradley Alan Flowers	University of Texas at Austin	Thermochemistry of Peroxyacetyl Nitrate via Vibrational Overtone Absorption Spectroscopy	John Stanton
Chemistry	Benjamin Aaron Garcia	University of Virginia	Differential Expression of the Post-translational Modification Patterns on Linker Histone H1.2 from Apoptotic Versus Healthy Cells	Donald Hunt
Chemistry	Benjamin Wade Harmon	Tennessee Technological University	Extraction of Radioactive Cesium from High-Level Waste	Dale Ensor
Chemistry	Pallop Karnchanaphanurach	Harvard University	Single Particle Tracking Reveals Evidence of Spatial Organization in the Regulation of Complement Activation on the Erythrocyte Membrane	David Golan
Chemistry	Yuanbing Mao	State University of New York at Stony Brook	Synthesis and Characterization of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 nanostructures	Stanislaus Wong
Chemistry	Laura Ruth McCunn	University of Chicago	Probing the Dissociation Dynamics of the Methoxycarbonyl Radical	Laurie Butler
Chemistry	Isaac Ong'weno Onyango	Kenyatta University	Phytochemical and Biological Studies of Selected Kenyan Croton Species Used in Traditional Medicine	Sumesh Chhabra
Chemistry	Christopher Ryan Yeisley	Saint Francis University	Electrochemistry of a model compound of Hydroxylamino oxidoredietase	Edward Zovinka
Ecology	Heidi Lynn Alderman	East Carolina University	Osprey as a Model of Mercury Accumulation in Top Predators in Aquatic Ecosystems	Roger Rulifson
Ecology	Alberto Anzures Dadda	Instituto de Ecología, A.C.	The consequences of rainforest fragmentation and the loss of howler monkeys on seeds dispersal and seedling recruitment in Dialium guianense	Robert Manson
Ecology	Katherine Kimberlin Arkema	University of California, Santa Barbara	The Influence of Giant Kelp on Suspension-Feeding Marine Invertebrates	Sally Holbrook
Ecology	Rafael Avila-Flores	University of Alberta	Demography and population dynamics of black-tailed prairie dogs in a fragmented landscape of Chihuahua, Mexico	Stan Boutin
Ecology	Adrian Bruno Azpiroz	University of Missouri, St. Louis	Ecology and Conservation of Pampas Grassland Birds	John Blake
Ecology	Alison Elizabeth Bennett	Indiana University	Mechanisms underlying complex interactions between plants, herbivores, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	James Bever
Ecology	April M.H. Blakeslee	University of New Hampshire	Discerning the ecological history of a cryptogenic marine snail, Littorina littorea, utilizing a novel combination of molecular genetics and parasites	Michael Lesser
Ecology	Katherine Patricia Bleiker	University of Montana	Interactions between Dendroctonus ponderosae and its filamentous fungal associates	Diana Six
Ecology	Elizabeth Bone	University of Massachusetts	A test for evolved increase in phenotypic plasticity in invasive populations of cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum L	Peter Alpert
Ecology	Leslie Alyson Brandt	University of Minnesota	Do changes in ultraviolet-B radiation affect mycorrhizal colonization? An investigation in the Colorado shortgrass steppe	Jennifer King
Ecology	Christy Elaine Briles	University of Oregon	Postglacial forest development and disturbance history from the biologically diverse Klamath Mountains	Cathy Whitlock
Ecology	Curtis Jason Brown	University of Maine	Spatial Effects of Predation on the American Lobster	Richard Wahle
Ecology	Jessica Rae Brzyski	Georgia Southern University	Beaver (Castor canadensis) Impacts on Herbaceous Plant Communities in Southern Georgia	Bruce Schulte
Ecology	Christine Renate Buckley	Tulane University	The effects of egg retention in cold climates on offspring morphology and performance in a montane lizard	Duncan Irschick
Ecology	Alejandra Carvajal	University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh	Seed dispersal and predation by a tropical forest rodent	Gregory Adler
Ecology	Alessandro Marco Catenazzi	Florida International University	Marine productivity and gecko populations in the Peruvian coastal desert: the importance of marine food subsidies as revealed by stable isotopes and dietary analyses	Maureen Donnelly
Ecology	Aaron Francis Collins	Florida Institute of Technology	Testing false-color satellite imaging of Los Amigos, Peru for trends in vegetative structure	Mark Bush
Ecology	Melissa Kaye Dean	Humboldt State University	The effects of the rodenticide Ramik Green on the non-target slug Limax maximus in Ola’a Forest on the island of Hawaii	Michael Camann
Ecology	Linnae Nicole DeCamp	California State University San Marcos	Effects of increased carbon dioxide on calcification rates in magnesian calcite producers	Victoria Fabry
Ecology	Angela May Dubois	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Dynamics of chemical defenses in four Kachemak Bay kelp species as a response to gastropod grazing patterns	Katrin Iken
Ecology	Kristina L. Ecton	Northern Arizona University	Evaluating Migratory Routes of Neotropical Migrants Using Stable Isotopes	Charles van Riper III
Ecology	Vesela Vasileva Evtimova	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	Biological Assessment of Karst Water Ecosystem in the Ponor Mountains, Western Bulgaria: Role of Crustaceans as Bioindicators	Ivan Pandourski
Ecology	Jose Francisco Fabara	University of Missouri, St Louis	The impact of human activities on macaw diversity and abundance in lowland forest of Amazonia	Bette Loiselle
Ecology	Erin Renée Fanning	Central Missouri State University	Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Vertical Distribution of Lichen Growth Forms in Canopies of Selected Tree Species	Harold Keller
Ecology	Elizabeth Anne Fasy	Oregon State University	Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Melanin Production and Heat Shock Proteins in Amphibians	Andrew Blaustein
Ecology	Trista Lee Felty	Villanova University	Are College Campuses Reservoirs for Arthropod Diversity and Abundance?	April Boulton
Ecology	Rita Malia Fincher	Tulane University	Metabolic cost of increased production of secondary compounds in a tropical understory shrub	Lee Dyer
Ecology	Paula C. Furey	Bowling Green State University	Biodiversity of diatoms in Forney Creek, Great Smokey Mountains National Park	Rex Lowe
Ecology	Brad Michael Glorioso	Middle Tennessee State University	Harvesting Effects on Survivability of Hatchling and Yearling Turtles	Vincent Cobb
Ecology	Edward Kyle Hall	University of Minnessota	Temperature and Resource Effects on Bacterial Stoichiometry and Nutrient Recycling	Jim Cotner
Ecology	Sonia M. Hernandez-Divers	University of Georgia	Prevalence of disease in free-ranging birds in and around the Maquipucuna Reserve, Ecuador and its relationship to habitat use	Rosemond Amy
Ecology	Jason Todd Hoverman	University of Pittsburgh	The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in snails: the role of phenotypic trade-offs	Rick Relyea
Ecology	Theresa Ortensia Jenkins	University of Nevada, Reno	Comparative Phylogeography of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clark henshawi) and the Paiute Sculpin (Cottus beldingi): application of a model approach to ecosystem management	Guy Hoelzer
Ecology	Punidan D. Jeyasingh	University of Oklahoma	Ecosystem and genetic characteristics affect susceptibility to predation?	Lawrence Weider
Ecology	Sarah Elizabeth Johnson	East Carolina University	The effects of competition on seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus, Raf.)	Claudia Jolls
Ecology	Sheri L. Johnson	University of Maine	Density dependent historecognition in the colonial ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri, as influenced by genetic relatedness	Philip Yund
Ecology	Mari Kimura	Cornell University	What Happens When Pathogens Meet a Novel Host? Malaria In An Avian Host Across Its Native and Introduced Range	Irby, Lovette,
Ecology	Sean W. Kinane	University of South Florida	Effects of Hydrodynamics on Bleaching in Corals: Does Increased Flow Lead to Diminished Bleaching Stress?	Florence Thomas
Ecology	Jessica Yvonne Kiser	University of Northern Colorado	Resource use in relation to wingloading in female bats in Boulder County, CO	Adams Rick
Ecology	Page Elizabeth Klug	University of Nebraska at Omaha	The effects of grassland patch and landscape characteristics on the predator community of grassland bird nests	Lillian Wolfenbarger
Ecology	Johanna Marie Kraus	University of Virginia	Reciprocal subsidies at a pond-forest boundary	Henry Wilbur
Ecology	Silvia Beatriz Lomáscolo	University of Florida	Role of Seed Dispersers in the Evolutionary Diversification of Fruiting Plants	Colin Chapman
Ecology	Cynthia King Maddox	Central Michigan University	Genetic Evaluation of Black-Footed Ferrets for Reintroduction Purposes	Bradley Swanson
Ecology	Vanessa Marilie Madrid	State University of New York at Stony Brook	Quantification of bacterial metabolic activities in deltaic tropical mobile muds	Josephine Aller
Ecology	Seth Besterveldt Magle	Colorado State University	The Persistence of Wildlife Communities on Urban Habitat Islands in the Colorado Front Range	Kevin Crooks
Ecology	William Brett Mattingly	Indiana University	The Role of Soil Nitrogen Heterogeneity in Enhancing the Diversity and Productivity of Prairie Communities	Heather Reynolds
Ecology	Angela B. Moline	Colorado State University	The effect of non-native riparian vegetation on stream invertebrate communities	N. Poff
Ecology	Jeffrey Alan Moore	Appalachian State University	Effects of a Hyperalkaline Spill on the Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in a Fourth Order Stream	Shea Tuberty
Ecology	Jane Loretta Murawski	Central Michigan University	Impacts of Road Salt Runoff on Population Size, Development, and Survival Rates of the Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica)	James Gillingham
Ecology	Erin Frances Murphy	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Molecular Survey of a Macroscopic White Floc-forming Microbial Community in Darrough's Hot Spring, a 95ºC Spring in Central Nevada	Brian Hedlund
Ecology	Meaghan Thibault Murphy	McGill University	Tree species diversity and soil respiration in a Panamanian plantation	Catherine Potvin
Ecology	Melanie April Murphy	Washington State University	Landscape Genetics of Boreal Toad (Bufo boreas boreas) and Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris maculata) Populations in Yellowstone National Park	Andrew Storfer
Ecology	Monica Alexandra Needoba	St Mary's College Moraga	Assesing the Environmental Quality of Suisun Bay Through Water, Sediment and Organism Census Data	Steven Kelley
Ecology	Vanessa Lynn Nero	University of Miami	The influence of abiotic and biotic factors on nearshore marine communities of the Bahamas	Kathleen Sullivan-Sealey
Ecology	Elizabeth Fleur Nicklen	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Ant Effects on the Reproduction of Acacia constricta	Diane Wagner
Ecology	Mark Novak	University of Chicago	Omnivory, interaction web dynamics, and the properties of real food webs	Tim Wootton
Ecology	Arpat Ozgul	University of Florida	Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch-occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation	Madan Oli
Ecology	Tonya Ann Penkrot	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Paleoecological Inferences on Paleocene-Eocene Condylarths using Dental Morphometrics	Mark Teaford
Ecology	Joshua Joseph Picotte	Portland State University	Responses of the parental and hybrid genotypes of the Piriqueta caroliniana complex to calcareous soil conditions	Mitchell Cruzan
Ecology	Gabriela Inés Pirk	University of Buenos Aires	Effects of seed selection by harvester ants on seed abundance in the central Monte desert	Luis Marone
Ecology	Militsa Justine Plavsic	Cambridge University	Fire as a disturbance mechanism in small mammal communities of the Okavango Delta, Botswana	Tim Coulson
Ecology	David Aaron Pulley	Southwest Missouri State University	Evaluating the effects of fire frequency and intensity on nutrient availability in Ozark forests by monitoring soil respiration	D. Wait
Ecology	Erin Elizabeth Reardon	University of Florida	Effects of Hypoxia on the Life History and Energetics of the African Cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor	Lauren Chapman
Ecology	Matthew Jason Reetz	University of Florida	Expansion of the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater ater) into Florida	Kathryn Sieving
Ecology	Jason Dallas Reynolds	Unity College	Morphological Changes in the Presence of Invasive Species	Amy Arnett
Ecology	Amy Allison Roberts	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Habit Selection of the Eastern Fence Lizard, Sceloporus undulatus, in Southwestern Virginia	Robin Andrews
Ecology	Vikki Lynne Rodgers	Boston University	What determines the invasive success of Alliaria petiolata and Hesperis matronalis?	Adrien Finzi
Ecology	Rodney Rodriguez	University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras	Butterflies of “La Tula” watershed, Puerto Rico: Spatial heterogeneity and morphologic diversity	Carla Restrepo
Ecology	Xanic Jimena Rondon	Miami University of Ohio	Assessing the sustainability of Strip Clear-Cutting in the Peruvian Amazon	David Gorchov
Ecology	Jameal F. Samhouri	University of California, Los Angeles	The interaction of selective mortality, density dependence, and habitat quality in coral reef fish population dynamics	Richard Vance
Ecology	Michael James Savin	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Influence of Microbial Activity on Travertine Mineralization: Abiotic vs. Biotic Controls on Carbonate Precipitation	Bruce Fouke
Ecology	Michele Rae Schutzenhofer	Saint Louis University	Relative fitness of two sympatric congeneric Plantago species: a test of the enemy release hypothesis	Thomas Valone
Ecology	Andrew Olaf Shelton	University of Chicago	Linking bottom-up forces to variation in life history success: the impact of herring spawn on intertidal and shallow subtidal kelp communities in Alaska	Cathy Pfister
Ecology	Angela Marie Smilanich	Tulane University	How do pesticides in Costa Rican banana plantations affect biological control of caterpillars?	Lee Dyer
Ecology	Scott Everett Stavely	Lee University	Population status of eastern hellbenders Cryptobranchus alleganiensis in the southern Cherokee National Forest	Michael Freake
Ecology	Janette Ann Steets	University of Pittsburgh	The Effect of Vegetative Herbivory on the Mating System of Impatiens Capensis	Tia-Lynn Ashman
Ecology	Andrea Swei	University of California, Berkeley	Impacts of an introduced plant pathogen on the ecology of a human disease	Cheryl Briggs
Ecology	Benjamin Ryan Tanner	University of Tennessee	C3/C4 Variations in Higher Salt Marsh Sediments: An Application of Compound Specific Isotopic Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Research	Maria Uhle
Ecology	Brian Jeffrey Thompson	University of Central Florida	Intra-nest temperature regimes and hatchling ecology of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas): Determining hatchling sex ratio, hatching to emergence interval, and factors affecting emergence	Llewellyn Ehrhart
Ecology	Julie Lynn Turt	Eckerd College	Relative flood tolerance of a Spartina native and invasive hybrid in San Francisco Bay	Jeannine Lessmann
Ecology	Mariana Moncassim Vale	Duke University	Remaining habitat for Two Threatened Birds endemic to Northern Amazon	Stuart Pimm
Ecology	Dana Lynn VanHaitsma	Grand Valley State University	Selective predation by yellow perch: are round gobies equal to native prey?	Carl Ruetz
Ecology	Adriana Judith Veloza	College of William and Mary	Trophic Upgrading in Marine Food Webs	Kam Tang
Engineering	Sanja Benac	Saint Louis University	Characterizing Polymers to Increase Bone Growth for Orthopedic Applications	Rebecca Willits
Engineering	Shawn Alexander Chester	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Discrete Element Modeling of Granular Segregation Induced By Horizontal Vibrations	Anthony Rosato
Engineering	Ahmad yousef Dalqamouni	Kent State University	Development of Landslide Hazard Potential Rating System for Selected Counties in Northeast Ohio	Abdul Shakoor
Engineering	Suxiang Wei	University of Mississippi	Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Nanofibers Produced by Emulsion Polymerization in Cylindrical Micelles	John O'Haver
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Anna Kendall Beene-Crowder	University of Montana	Can a river heal itself? A case study on the upper Clark Fork River, MT	Johnnie Moore
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Nicole Devin Bowerman	Western Washington University	Testing Extreme Holocene Climate Fluctuations in Alpine Lake and Moraine Deposits, Sierra Nevada, California	Doug Clark
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Jean Louise Dixon	Dartmouth College	Climatic Controls on Soil Erosion: Investigation of quantified erosion rates along a climate gradient in the Sierra Nevada, California	Arjun Heimsath
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Ross R. Hendrick	Central Washington University	The Role of Geomorphic and Hydrologic Features on Sediment Clusters in Gravel-Bed Streams, Washington: A Field-Based Approach	Lisa Ely
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Keith Michael Jackson	Portland State University	The effect of supra-glacial debris on the morphology of Eliot Glacier, Mt. Hood, Oregon	Andrew Fountain
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Katherine Lynn Schroer	University of Georgia	Tracer study to determine biogeochemical controls on the fate of nitrate along a ground-water to surface-water flow path	Valentine Nzengung
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Laura Ann Sederstrom	University of Alaska Anchorage	Geomorphology and formation of Crescent Lake valley, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	Kristine Crossen
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Kevin Malone Spigel	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Erosion and Sedimentation History of Emrick Lake, South-Central Wisconsin, in Response to Holocene Environmental Change	James Knox
Hydrology / Geomorphology	Karen Marie Vanaman	Northern Arizona University	Analysis of alluvial flood deposits, Newberry Volcano, central Oregon	Nancy Riggs
Paleontology / Sedimentation	David Bradley Baier	Brown University	Shoulder Mechanics and the Evolution of Avian Flight	Stephen Gatesy
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Diana Lynne Boyer	University of California, Riverside	Relative Oxygen Model Based on Devonian Black Shale Brachiopods	Mary Droser
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Chad Allen Ferguson	University of Cincinnati	Making the Transition from Subfossil to Fossil: The Formation of Shell Beds in the Record	Arnold Miller
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Shusheng Hu	University of Florida	Early flowering plant evolution during the mid-Cretaceous	David Dilcher
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Debra Sue Jennings	University of Kansas	Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Morrison Formation Deposits, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming	Stephen Hasiotis
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Talia S. Karim	University of Iowa	Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundlan, Canada	Jonathan Adrain
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Lawrence Morara Kiage	Louisiana State University	Vegetation Change and Land Degradation in the Lake Baringo Ecosystem, Kenya, and East Africa: Evidence from Paleoecology and Remote Sensing	Kam-biu Liu
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Brian Paul Kraatz	University of California, Berkeley	Mammalian Faunal Change in the Early Oligocene of Mongolia	Anthony Barnosky
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Lori Lee Manship	Texas Tech University	Variation Analysis Of Palmatolepis (Implementing GIS): A Qualitative and Quantitative Method	James Barrick
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Joshua Hays Miller	University of Chicago	The Bones of Yellowstone: An Exploration into Temperate Vertebrate Taphonomy and a Comparison with Amboseli, Kenya	Michael LaBarbera
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Katherine Anne Nicholson	University of Southern California	Mat-busters: ichnofossil evidence for the Cambrian Substrate Revolution	David Bottjer
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Quintin Michael Overocker	University of Tennessee	Origin of Breccias in the Wallace Fm., Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, MT and ID	Linda Kah
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Daniel James Peppe	Yale University	An integrated biostratigraphic study of the Paleocene floras in the Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA	Leo Hickey
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Brian Frederic Platt	University of Kansas	Integration of ichnology and sedimentology in interpreting alluvial deposits of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming	Stephen Hasiotis
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Yasmin Jahanara Rahman	University of California, Riverside	Responses of Marine Communities to Global Climate Change: Studying a Guild in Evolutionary Time	Mary Droser
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Amanda Jo Waite	University of Delaware	An evaluation of coccolith Sr/Ca measures of paleoproductivity: comparison to Pliocene-Miocene benthic foram records from Atlantic ODP sites 925 and 982	Katharina Billups
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Matthew Scott Wasson	University of Michigan	Reconstructing the Depositional and Diagenetic Settings of Late Pennsylvanian Algal Bioherms, Holder Formation, New Mexico	Kyger Lohmann
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Holly Noelle Woodward	Texas Tech University	Bone Histology of the Titanosaurid Sauropod Dinosaur Alamosaurus from the Javelina Formation, Big Bend National Park	Thomas Lehman
Paleontology / Sedimentation	Liming Zhu	Indiana University	Study on the Extinction Pattern of Late Cretaceous Corals from the Rio Maton and Cotui Formations, Puerto Rico	Claudia Johnson
Petrology / Geochemistry	Deedra Marie Balli	University of Houston - Downtown	Determination of the Ammonium Present in the Granites in the Bullrun and Grouse Creek Intrusions in N.E. Oregon	Kenneth Johnson
Petrology / Geochemistry	Michael Lee Benjamin	University of Kansas	Origin and provenance of the Gula Nappe Complex from age dating of detrital zircons, South-Central Norwegian Caledonides	Elizabeth McClellan
Petrology / Geochemistry	Alejandra Bonilla	University of Cincinnati	Arsenic study in Mason, Ohio	J. Maynard
Petrology / Geochemistry	John Curtis Crawford	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Investigating the Origin of an Unusual Precambrain Carbonate Morphology	Linda Kah
Petrology / Geochemistry	Catherine Lee Denoncourt	University of New Hampshire	Establishing Production Rates of Cosmogenic 36-Cl from Holocene Lava Flows in the Western Volcanic Zone of Iceland	Joseph Licciardi
Petrology / Geochemistry	Beth Christine Duschatko	Northern Arizona University	Tephrachronology of pre-Holocene deposits, Newberry Volcano, Oregon	Nancy Riggs
Petrology / Geochemistry	Reuben Rudy Ganske	Idaho State University	Petrology and Geology of the East Butte area, Bingham County, Idaho: Implications for Bimodal Volcanism on the eastern Snake River Plain	Michael McCurry
Petrology / Geochemistry	Parham Perkins Gardner	Colorado State University	Determining molybdenite behavior during deformation and it’s effect on the Re-Os geochronometer	Judith Hannah
Petrology / Geochemistry	Laurie Menviel	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Paleoclimatic study of an alpine lake	Jane Schoonmaker
Petrology / Geochemistry	Timothy Ash Oleson	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Quantifying Adsorption Energies of a Cell Membrane Phospholipid on Oxide Mineral Surfaces	Nita Sahai
Petrology / Geochemistry	Ethan Richard Perry	University of Texas	Field and petrographic study of mylonitic fabrics: Implications for tectonic corrugation development, Tanque Verde Ridge, Arizona, USA	Sharon Mosher
Petrology / Geochemistry	Bethany Jean Purdin	University of Georgia	Geochemical Evidence of Meteoric Diagenesis in Ordovician Limestones of the Nashville Dome, TN	Loren Railsback,
Petrology / Geochemistry	Christian Michael Schrader	University of Georgia	Experimental Determination of Source Material and P-T-a(H2O) Melting	Alberto Patino-Douce
Petrology / Geochemistry	Tanya Chantal Shavalia	University of Michigan	Radiogenic Isotope Variations in an Active Subduction Setting (St. Lucia, W.I.) – Implications for Magma Petrogenesis	Samuel Mukasa
Petrology / Geochemistry	Jessica Jean Terrien	Syracuse University	Quantifying the Potential Role of the Mantle in Magma Generation in the Catalina Metamorphic Core Complex, Arizona	Suzanne Baldwin
Petrology / Geochemistry	John Ashley Towns	University of Alabama	Volcanoes and glaciers: dating of glaciovolcanic eruptions and Holocene-Pleistocene ice-sheet distributions, southwestern British Columbia, Canada	Nathan Green
Petrology / Geochemistry	Judith F. Vazquez	University of Houston - Downtown	Geochemical Comparison Between Geophagous and Non-Geophagous Clays	Kenneth Johnson
Petrology / Geochemistry	Christopher Martin Wurster	University of Saskatchewan	Stable carbon isotopes in Mexican free-tailed bat guano as a record of semi-arid climate variability over the late Pleistocene and Holocene	William Patterson
Petrology / Geochemistry	Laura A. Wysocki	Tulane University	Sources of organic carbon to the Louisiana shelf: spatial and benthic-coupling dynamics	Thomas Bianchi
Physics / Astronomy	Justin Robert Crepp	Pennsylvania State University	Gas-assisted Capture of Earth-like Satellites by Migrating Exosolar Planets	Darren Williams
Physics / Astronomy	Susanna Catherine Finn	Brown University	Analysis of Photometric Redshifts of Galaxies with BLAST	Gregory Tucker
Physics / Astronomy	Steven Michael Movit	Pennsylvania State University	A New Technique for Calibrating High-Energy Neutrino Detectors: AMANDA/IceCube	Douglas Cowen
Physics / Astronomy	Andrew Alan West	University of Washington	HI Properties of Optically Selected Galaxies in SDSS and HIPASS	Julianne Dalcanton
Physics / Astronomy	Chiyat Ben Yau	University of Cincinnati	Defect depth-profiling in ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 and Bi4-xLaxTi3O12 thin films by positron annihilation	Relva Buchanan
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Frances Bonier	University of Washington	Urban Adaptation in North American Passerine Birds	John Wingfield
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Melanie Joy Bopp	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Effects of exercise on bone mineral density during lactation	Cheryl Lovelady
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Raoul Keith Boughton	University of Memphis	Distinguishing the immunosuppressive actions of testosterone and corticosterone	Stephan Schoech
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Alyssa Marie Carlson	Hobart and William Smitth Colleges	The Retinal Morphology of Microchiropteran and Megachiropteran Bats	James Ryan
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Yu Chen	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Effects of Thyroid Disruption on Gene expression in Developing Avian Brain	F. M. Anne McNabb
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Lauren Michele Costa	Princeton University	The Hormonal Control of Year-Round Aggression in Avian Females	Michaela Hau
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Nicole Danos	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Material properties and locomotor function of skin in swimming vertebrates	Elizabeth Brainerd
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Carolyn Margaret Eng	Duke University	A comparative analysis of temporalis muscle fiber architecture in tree-gouging (Callithrix jacchus) and non-gougin (Saguinus oedipus) callitrichids	Andrea Taylor
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Diane Denise Forson	Washington State University	Agricultural contaminants as a potential cofactor in recent tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) epizootics	Andrew Storfer
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Kaushik Ghosal	Miami University of Ohio	Brain circuits controlling specific behaviors in the cricket: c-Fos as a marker of neuronal activation	Kathleen Killian
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Jennifer Mary Head	University of Oregon	The effects of hypoxia on HIF-1a and hemocyanin expression in Cancer magister	Nora Terwilliger
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Erin Christine Jenewein	University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh	Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome and Retinal Cones	Dana Vaughan
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Elizabeth Ellen Jones	Miami University of Ohio	Regulation of neuronal survival in adult sympathetic neurons	Lori Isaacson
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Joanna Joyner-Matos	University of Florida	Normoxia as a stressor: abiotic factors influencing the distribution of the bivalve Sphaerium spp. in an African swamp	David Julian
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Young-Don Kwak	University of Illinois at Chicago	Novel therapeutic approach for Alzheimer’s disease using small interference RNA	Kiminobu Sugaya
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Oliver Patrick Love	Simon Fraser University	Effects of elevated yolk corticosterone on nestling phenotype	Tony Williams
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Matos Fernando Luis	University of Florida	How is Diachasmimorpha longicaudata Entomopoxvirus (DlEPV) acquired by wasp offspring?	Pauline Lawrence
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Deborah Irene Lutterschmidt	Oregon State University	Comparative Physiology of "Time-Keeping" Mechanisms: Evolved or Environmentally Induced?	Robert Mason
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Hareth Mousa Madhoun	Widener University	Does atrazine act as an innate immune system disruptor in adult Northern Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens) at levels lower than found in EPA drinking water standards?	Marc Brodkin
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Krista Ann-Marie McCoy	University of Florida	Behavioral and fitness consequences of endocrine disruption in wild amphibian populations	Colette St Mary
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Ann Marie McNamara	Cornell University	Decoding the Function of Secondary Olfactory Structures by Manipulating Behavioral Context	Christiane Linster
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Maxim Vladimirovich Mokin	University of South Dakota	Studying AMPA receptor trafficking during in vitro eyeblink classical conditioning in turtles	Joyce Keifer
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Shannon Patricia O'Grady	University of Utah	Effect of fiber levels on specific dynamic action and digestion in a small herbivorous lizard	Marie Dearing
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Justin Thayne Schaefer	University of California, Irvine	Functional analysis of variable skeletal morphology in batoid (elasmobranchii) wings	Adam Summers
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Laura Henderson Spinney	Princeton University	Endocrine Mechanisms of Alternative Phenotypes in the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)	Michaela Hau
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Charles Tristan Stayton	University of Chicago	Functional and morphological convergence of herbivorous lizard skulls	Mark Westneat
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Shantha Ramani Sumanasinghe	North Carolina State University	Can nematodes cause the same ion flux changes around root hairs of Lotus japonicus as those caused by nodule-inducing bacteria?	Nina Allen
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Maria Laina Urso	University of Massachusetts	Early changes in gene expression with immobilization	Priscilla Clarkson
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Kerry Lynn Weber	University of New England	Effect of seasonal temperature change and acclimation on prey size selection and energetic cost of attack of Asterias vulagaris	Anne Brown
Physiology / Functional Morphology	Zachary Ryan Whitehead	University of Missouri, Columbia	The Use of Embryonic Stem Cells in a Mouse Model of Retinal Degeneration	Mark Kirk
Psychology	Benjamin Keith Barton	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Children’s Self-Selection into Risky Pedestrian Settings	David Schwebel
Psychology	Jessica Susan Berndt	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Influences of Paternal Behavior on the Development of Aggression	Catherine Marler
Psychology	Veronica Catherine Gross	Boston University	Declarative Memory in Color-Graphemic Synesthesia	Alice Cronin-Golomb
Psychology	Kevin John Haley	University of California, Los Angeles	An investigation of the relationship between facial phenotype and decisions affecting cooperation	Daniel Fessler
Psychology	Joshua Dean Halonen	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	The Effects of Bilateral Lesions of the Dentate Nucleus of the Cerebellum on Intensity Dependent Stimuli	Rodney Swain
Psychology	Mok Leh Woon	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	fMRI Study of Memory Systems Underlying the Differential Outcomes Effect	James Overmier
Psychology	Peter C. Sugarman	University of Southern Mississippi	Acoustic Discrimination in Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	Stan Kuczaj
Psychology	Dana Marie Troullier	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	Epilepsy as a model for angiogenesis: The effects of short-duration seizure induction on vasculature in rodents	Rodney Swain
Psychology	Jamie Lynn Uejima	Carleton College	The Effects of Cholecystokinin-8S on Memory in Female Rats	Gretchen Gotthard
Psychology	Indre Vida Viskontas	University of California, Los Angeles	Mapping Declarative Memory Changes in the Brain	Barbara Knowlton
Psychology	Tina Kay Whitney	University of Wisconsin	The Role of Progesterone in Mammalian Paternal Behavior	Catherine Marler
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Michael Lee Bessert	University of Nebraska	Systematics and conservation genetics in the North American fish genus Cycleptus (Catostomidae)	Guillermo Orti
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Sayantan Biswas	George Washington University	Diversification in a biodiversity hotspot: an example from the Western Ghats’ (India) herpetofauna	James Clark
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Zachary A. Cheviron	Louisiana State University	Determining the relative importance of natural selection and genetic drift: an empirical investigation of genetic, morphological, and physiological divergence in Andean birds	Robb Brumfield
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Marcos Maldonado Coelho	University of Missouri, St. Louis	Systematics, Biogeography and Population History of Fire-eye Antbirds (Thamnophilidae, Aves) in the Neotropics	John Blake
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Timothy Michael Connallon	University of Michigan	The Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism	Laura Knowles
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Laurie Lynn Consaul	McGill University	The Role of polyploidy in the systematics and evolution of arctic alkaligrasses (Puccinellia)	Marcia Waterway
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Lisa Tascille Crummett	University of Florida	A test of selective arena in Campeloma limum as an explanation for the association between brooding and parthenogenesis	Colette St. Mary
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Wasila M. Dahdul	University of Pennsylvania	Temporal origins of Neotropical diversity: Phylogeny and diversification of serrasalmine fishes (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)	Arthur Dunham
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Stephanie M. Doucet	Auburn University	Co-evolution of visual photoreceptors and plumage ornamentation in Neotropical manakins (Aves: Pipridae)	Geoffrey Hill
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Kurt E. Galbreath	Cornell University	Comparative phylogeography of a co-evolving system: tracing the genetic signature of late Quaternary climate change in the pika (Ochotona princeps) and its helminth parasites	Kelly Zamudio
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Nelly Appolline Gidaszewski	University of Manchester	Evolution of fluctuating asymmetry in Drosophila wing shape	Christian Klingenberg
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Alyssa Danielle Hakes	Louisiana State University	The evolution of trichome production in Arabidopsis thaliana	James Cronin
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Katy Denise Heath	University of Minnesota	The Dynamics of Mutualism in Plants and Rhizobia	Peter Tiffin
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Christine Marie Henzler	Duke University	Effects of rafting and Pleistocene glaciation on intraspecific genealogies of North Atlantic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda)	Clifford Cunningham
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Lisa Diane Karst	Portland State University	Do pollinator shifts and floral character evolution correlate to large area radiations in Sisyrinchium (Iridaceae)?	Carol Wilson
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Cristina Lopez-Gallego	University of New Orleans	Predicting the response to natural selection in a long-lived plant	Joseph Pechmann
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Scott Howard Markwith	University of Georgia	Multi-scale Analysis of Gene Flow in the Emergent Aquatic Macrophyte Hymenocallis coronaria	Kathleen Parker
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Virginia Ann Miller	University of Chicago	Increasing complexity in cheilostome bryozoans: a passive or driven trend?	Scott Lidgard
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Brett Christian Nagle	University of Minnesota	Molecular Phylogenetics and Trophic Morphology of the Cyprinid Genera, Campostoma and Nocomis (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)	Andrew Simons
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Mary Ann Olson-Russello	University of New Haven	Assessment of Population Differentiation in the Polychaete, Hobsonia florida in Light of the Geologic History of Long Island Sound	Roman Zajac
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Maxi Michelle Polihronakis	University of Connecticut	Investigating the evolution of male and female genitalic structures in Phyllophaga species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and their role in post-copulatory sexual selection	Charles Henry
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Gregory J. Ragland	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Thermal adaptation of the pitcher plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii	Joel Kingsolver
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Sadie Kathleen Reed	Kent State University	Request for Support for a Short Research Visit to the Australian Museum in Sydney	Stephen Weeks
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Thomas Jon Sanger	Washington University in St. Louis	The developmental bases of Anolis limb evolution	Jeremy Gibson-Brown
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Chris Alan Schmidt	University of Arizona	Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Ponerine Ants	David Maddison
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Christin Tara Slaughter	University of North Carolina at Wilmington	The role of gametic incompatibility in the maintenance of species boundaries between hybridizing blue mussels	Michael McCartney
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Eliana Ruth Steinberg	University of Buenos Aires	Cytogenetic characterization of Saimiri boliviensis from the Corrientes Biological Station (EBCo) in Argentina	Marta Mudry
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Brittany Lynne Sutherland	Western Kentucky University	Determination of Evolutionary Relationships of Himalayan Rubus (Rosaceae) species based on DNA sequence data	Lawrence Alice
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Timothy David Swain	Florida State University	Evolution of symbiosis in zoanthids	Janie Wulff
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Joshua Ryan Whorley	University of Washington	Reproductive ecology of Antelope ground squirrels at their northern range limit	George Kenagy
Systematics / Evolutionary Biology	Norman John Wickett	University of Connecticut	Genome evolution under relaxed functional constraints: an example from the non-photosynthetic liverwort, Cryptothallus mirabilis (Jungermanniopsida, Aneuraceae)	Bernard Goffinet
Tectonics / Geophysics	Robert Harry Amerman	Colorado School of Mines	Structural analysis of soft-sediment deformation in a paleo-submarine slump and slide complex and prediction of overlying deep-water sandstone architecture	Eric Nelson
Tectonics / Geophysics	Miriam Barbara Attenoukon	Indiana University	Timing of Assembly of Tectonic Terranes in Eastern Massachusetts	Robert Wintsch
Tectonics / Geophysics	Mark S. Baum	Rutgers University	Oblique-inversions structures: their geometry, development, and utility as strain-state indicators	Roy Schlische
Tectonics / Geophysics	Todd Ian Belanger	Western Washington University	Kinematics, metamorphism, and geochronology of the Cascade River area, North Cascades, Washington. Implications for a model of orogeny	Elizabeth Schermer
Tectonics / Geophysics	Brian Stephen Cook	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Strain symmetry at the base of the Moine nappe, NW Scotland: implications for material flow along orogenic strike	Richard Law
Tectonics / Geophysics	Terrence Joseph Dewane	University of Kansas	Cenozoic E-W Extension in the Southern Tangra Yum Co and Kung Co Rifts, Central Tibet	Daniel Stockli
Tectonics / Geophysics	Robert James Gillis	University of California, Los Angeles	Assessing uplift and shortening in the Cordillera Real, Bolivia: Geologic and thermal constraints	Brian Horton
Tectonics / Geophysics	Kristin Marie Guthrie	Miami University of Ohio	Structural controls on fluvial/alluvial deposition, Ischigualasto Basin, NW Argentina	Brian Currie
Tectonics / Geophysics	James Stephen Hnat	University of Michigan	Paleomagnetism of the Keweenaw Peninsula - Investigation of Potential Orocline Rotation	Rob van der Voo
Tectonics / Geophysics	Fawna Joy Korhonen	University of Minnesota	A geochronological investigation of the emplacement of the Red Wine Mountains massif, eastern Grenville Province, Labrador	James Stout
Tectonics / Geophysics	Michael William McRivette	University of California, Los Angeles	Tectonic development of the easternmost segment of the Altyn Tagh fault system and the Nan Shan thrust belt, northwestern China	An Yin
Tectonics / Geophysics	Ian M. Miller	Yale University	California real estate in Alaska?: Paleofloral constraints on displacement of suspect terranes	Leo Hickey
Tectonics / Geophysics	Michael Edwards Rieser	University of Minnesota, Duluth	Deformation, metamorphism and tectonic history of 1.7 Ga orogenic events in Proterozoic gneisses of the Mojave Province, Providence Mountains, SE California	John Goodge
Tectonics / Geophysics	Teresa Sabato Ceraldi	Saint Louis University	Fluid migration in and across fault zones with footwall shales and hanging wall carbonates in Sawtooth Range of the Rocky Mountains, northwest Montana	David Kirschner
Tectonics / Geophysics	Lisa Marie Tranel	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Development of a Digital Model of the Surface and Subsurface Shape of the	Stephen Marshak
Tectonics / Geophysics	William Thomas Wilcox	Miami University of Ohio	Sequence Stratigraphy of the Curtis, Summerville and Stump Formations (Late Callovian-Oxfordian), Utah and Colorado	Brian Currie