AAUS Scholarships

AAUS recognizes the recipients of our annual scholarships.

2009

1st place - Lauren Garske - Ph.D. - ( Bodega Marine Lab, University of California, Davis) Integrating oceanographic, chemical and ecological processes to identify 'zones of impact' for runoff in coastal waters.

2nd place - Katherine Grablow - Ph.D. (Department of Biology,  University of Central Florida) Recruitment and dispersal of the long-spined urchin, Diadema antillarum.

Note:  K. Grablow declined the scholarship. 

2nd place - Robin Elahi - Ph.D. (University of Washinton, Friday Harbor Labs) Identifying ecological and phylogenetic factors underlying the distribution of exotic tunicates in the subtidal rocky habitats of Washington.

1st place - Alecia Adamson - Masters - (Fisheries and Aquatics Sciences, University of Florida) Do sanctuary preservation areas provide hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) significant protection against exploitation?

2nd place - Arley Muth - Masters (Moss Landing Marine Lab) - Substrate rugosity effects on kelp spore aggregation and fertilization success.

2008

1st place - Zy Biesinger - Ph.D (Dept of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida) Linking gag grouper performance to habitat and density.

2nd place - Mary Hart - Ph.D (Dept of Biology, University of Kentucky) Environmental effects on mating strategy in a simultaneously hermaphroditic fish

1st place - Bonnie Rogers - Masters (California State University Long Beach) The effects of fishing-related barotrauma on the visual acuity of black-and-yellow rockfish (Sebastes crysomelas)

2nd place - Joshua Copus - Masters (Northern Arizona University) Population Structure of Chaetodon trichrous: Does genetic differentiation exist?

2007

Suzanne Arnold -Ph.D. - (U. of Maine;Department of Oceanography, Marine Biology and Marine Policy) Coral Recruitment in the gardens of good and evil: a regional look at the role of herbivory. (Bonaire and Belize)

Kendra Karr  - Masters -(UC, Santa Cruz;Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Ecological role of Macrocystis pyrifera canopy for kelp forest community dynamics (Northern California)

2006

Jodi Pirtle: - Ph.D. - The Influence of Living Habitat in Structuring Nearshore Fish and Invertebrate Communities in Southeast Alaska.

Karl Mueller: - Masters - Shelter Competition Between Native Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) and Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish Procambarus clarkia (Girard, 1852) in Pine Lake, Washington, USA: The Role of Size and Sex.

2005

Nicole Fogarty: Florida State University, Ph.D. – Primary: “The Significance of Hybridization in Depauperate Caribbean Acropora Populations”

Dan Warren: University of California, Davis, Ph.D. – Secondary: “Ecological Speciation and Gamete Compatibility in Caribbean Wrasses”

Cyndi Dawson: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Masters – Primary: “Movements, Habitat Use, and Seasonal Abundance of the Prickly Shark, Echinorhinus cookiei, in the Vicinity of the Monterey Submarine Canyon”

Joshua Bouma: University of Washington, Masters - Secondary “Juvenile Recruitment Dynamics of the Pinto Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) in the San Juan Islands, Washington State”

2004

Luis Vinueza, Oregon State University – Ph.D. “Bottom Up and Top Down, Factors in the Regulation of Rocky Shore Communities in the Galapagos Islands: Implications for Marine reserve design and conservation”

Andrew Weispfenning, Western Washington University – Masters “Assessment of Nearshore Bottom Fishes and Rocky Reef Habitat within Eight Candidate Marine Reserves in Skagit County, Washington”

2003

Chad McNutt, University of Houston. - Ph.D. “Population Genetic Structure and Connectivity of Montastraea faveolata Across the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary”

James Dimond, University of Rhode Island - Masters Student.

"A field investigation of facultative symbiosis in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata"

2002

Kerri Scolardi, University of South Florida - Masters Student.  "Distribution, Abundance and Predatory Impact of Atlantic Ctenophores"

Peter B. McIntyre, Cornell University - Ph.D. Student.  "Tropic ecology of benthic herbivores in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa"

2001

Salvador Jorgensen, University of California, Davis - Masters Student.  "Pelagic fish assemblages: Implications for Marine Reserve Design"

Irene Tetreault Beers, University of California, Los Angeles - Ph.D. Student.  "A test of the spillover effect from no-take marine reserves using
California Sheepshead in Southern California"

2000

Robin Willoughby, Florida Institute of Technology - Ph.D. Student.  "Stress Induced Gene Expression in Marine Sponges"

1999

Mathew Edwards, University of California at Santa Cruz – Ph.D. Student

“The impact of the 1997-98 El Nino on coastal marine ecosystems of California and Mexico”

1998

Diana Stellar, University of California, Santa Cruz.  "Importance of rhodolith beds as shellfish recruitment habitat for the catarina scallop, Argopecten ventricosus, along the coasts of Baja California peninsula, Mexico"

1997

Helen Fox, University of California, Berkeley.  "Coral Reef Rehabilitation in Komodo National Park, Indonesia"

1996

Rebecca Beavers, Duke University Marine Laboratory – Ph.D. Student

“Documenting Storm Sedimentation with Diver-Collected boxcores and Acoustic Altimeters Offshore of Duck, NC”