Graduate Student Research Award
2026
Sierra Chadwick
Yale School of the Environment
“Microtopography as a driver of New England forest biodiversity across succession”
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Shanna Demers
Antioch University
“Characterization of fire-impacted temperate cryptogamic communities at Altona Flat Rock jack pine barrens”
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Nora Heaphy
The University of Vermont
“Adaptive introgression and demographic structure in a keystone northern forest tree”
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Luke Sparreo
City University of New York and the New York Botanical Garden
“Cophylogenetic approaches towards understanding potential patterns of coevolution in New England carnivorous plant genus Sarracenia”
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2025
Jason Leung
Columbia University
“Sequencing 19th century herbairum specimens to understand the loss of genetic diversity in a regionally extinct beach plant, Amaranthus pumilus Raf., or seabeach amaranth”
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Caroline Witherspoon
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
“Usnea subfloridana as a model for understanding the drivers of the distribution and ecology of imperiled Usnea lichens in the northeastern United States”
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2024
Rachel Hopkins
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
“Mountain plants on the move: Tracking 60 years of climate-induced changes on Whiteface Mountain, New York State”
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Prasanth Prabhu
Clark University
“Metabolomics and comparative transcriptomics to understand the evolution of the nematode-paralyzing neurotoxin in the invasive fungus Pleurotus citrinoplieatus Singer”
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Vidya S. Vuruputoor
University of Connecticut
“Elucidating genomic mechanisms of hemlock woolly adelgid resistance through transcriptome profiling”
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2023
2022
Amelia A. Fitch
Dartmouth College
“Investigating the role of mycorrhizal fungi in New England forest management”
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Joseph Jaros
Fordham University
“Linking plant soil feedback to population dynamics using demographic models of knotweed”
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Cooper M. Kimball-Rhines
University of Mass-Boston
“Conservation and restoration of Lupinus perennis, a keystone pine barren pioneer”
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Emmi Kurosawa
University of Mass-Boston
“How carnivorous are you? Seasonal changes in carnivory and prey preference among carnivorous plants of New England”
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Max McCarthy
Rutgers University
“Effects of flower phenology on pollination and reproduction of a protandrous plant”
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2021
Michael LaScaleia
University of Connecticut
“What role do top-down and bottom-up enemy release play in exotic plant invasion of New England forests?”
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Madeleine Meadows-Mcdonnell
University of Connecticut
“Coastal wetland carbon dynamics: testing how salinity and light affect root exudation rates of dominant salt marsh grasses”
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Aiden Stanley
University of Pittsburgh
“Have human-mediated disturbances led to changes in pollination of native flowering plants?”
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2020
2019
Jamie Harrison
Boston University
“Combined effects of growing season warming and winter freeze/thaw cycles on northern hardwood forest ecosystems of New England”
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Michelle R. Jackson
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“The potential impacts of increased warming and nitrogen on Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) physiology across a latitudinal gradient”
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Fiona Jevon
Dartmouth College
“Do density-dependent feedbacks drive New Enggland temperate tree seedling growth, survival, and diversity?”
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2018
Steven Ballou, Jr.
University of Memphis
“Morphology, Ecology, and Population Genetics of Lactuca hirsuta (Asteraceae) on the Cape and Nantucket, Massachusetts, with special consideration of L. hirsuta var. sanguine“
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James Mitchell
Harvard University
“Diversity and host specificity in the Genus Sarea Fr. (Ascomycota)”
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Anastasia Mozharova
University of Massachusetts Boston
“Identifying the presence of submersed aquatic plant species at low abundances using the eDNA (environmental DNA) method and next-generation sequencing”
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2017
Steven Ballou, Jr.
University of Memphis
“Morphology, Ecology, and Population Genetics of Lactuca hirsuta (Asteraceae) on the Cape and Nantucket, Massachusetts, with special consideration of L. hirsuta var. sanguine“
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James Mitchell
Harvard University
“Diversity and host specificity in the Genus Sarea Fr. (Ascomycota)”
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Anastasia Mozharova
University of Massachusetts Boston
“Identifying the presence of submersed aquatic plant species at low abundances using the eDNA (environmental DNA) method and next-generation sequencing”
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2017
Jenifer Dickinson
Antioch University New England
“Defining the habitat characteristics of four rare alpine plant species in the Presidential Mountain Range, New Hampshire, USA”
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Karl Fetter
University of Vermont
“Reduced hybrid fitness maintains species boundaries in two fully compatible poplars”
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Ellie M. Goud
Cornell University
“Plant carbon gain and water loss strategies as driverse for the maintenance of diversity: A novel approach using leaf carbon and oxygen stable isotopes”
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