2006-2007 Awards
| Alaska EPSCoR 2006/07 Graduate Fellowship -- Cold Regions | ||||
| Awardee | Project | Campus | Sponsor | Amount |
| Bai, FeiFei | Effects of Frozen Ground on Site Response using Seismic Recorded Data from a Downhole Array. | UAA | Helen Liu | $22,000 |
| Bray, Matthew | Cryogenically Controlled Creep Behavior of Ice-Rich Permafrost. | UAF | Yuri Shur | $22,000 |
| Duvoy, Paul | Effects of Forest Fires on Suspended Load in Streams in Interior Alaska . | UAF | Horacio Toniolo | $11,000 |
| Kim, Koui | 2-D finite element model of coupled processes including the effect of water table and freeze - thaw cycle at the free-field area. | UAF | Scott Huang | $22,000 |
| Li, Hui | Determination of Acoustic and Dynamic Properties of Frozen Soil using Ultrasonic Computerized Tomography (USCT). | UAF | Gang Chen | $22,000 |
| Sahoo, Bhaskar | Coupled Heat and moisture transport modelling of road beds in cold regions . | UAF | D. Misra / R. Daanen | $22,000 |
| Xu, Jianfeng | Theoretical and experimental analysis of two-phase thermosyphons and air convection embankments for arctic applications. | UAF | Douglas Goering | $22,000 |
| Alaska EPSCoR 2006/07 Graduate Fellowship -- Integrative Physiology | ||||
| Awardee | Project | CAmpus | Sponsor | Amount |
| Brennan, April | Circadian rhythm influences on metabolism in the Northern Red-backed vole, Clethrionomys rutilus. | UAA | A. Bult-Ito / J. Burns / B. Barnes / I. van Tets | $11,000 |
| Wan, Haiting | Daily Mouse Plasma Leptin and Ghrelin Rhythms Under Scheduled Feeding | UAF | Abel Bult-Ito | $11,000 |
| Fridinger, Robert | Active season changes in resting metabolic rate and foraging behavior in arctic ground squirrels. | FITC Kodiak | L. Buck / B. Barnes | $22,000 |
| Greene, Dana | The Neurophysiology of Thermoregulatory Nest-Building Behavior in Mice Bidirectionally Selected for Nest-Building Behavior. | UAF | Abel Bult-Ito | $22,000 |
| Jinka, Tulasi | Central Nervous System Reulation of Metabolic Suppression in Hibernation. | UAF | Kelly Drew | $22,000 |
| Lestyk, Keri | Ontogeny of muscle development in Hooded (Cystophora cristata) and Harp (Phoca groenlandica) seals: Implications for the terrestrial postweaning fast. | UAA | J. Burns / D. Pfeiffer / Freistroffer | $22,000 |
| Morgan, Tawna | Hormonal regulation of alternative reproductive strategies. | UAF | Sasha Kitaysky | $22,000 |
| Prewitt, Jill | Examining the effect of diet, body condition, and season on the muscle biochemistry and histology of harbor seals (phocavitulina). | UAA | J. Burns / D. Pfeiffer / D. Freistroffer | $22,000 |
| Robinson, David | Post-translational modifications of histone H2A during double-strand break repair in S. Cerevisiae. | UAA | Jocelyn Krebs | $22,000 |
| Sears, Justine | Effects of nutritional stress on stable isotope signatures in seabirds. | UAF | Sasha Kitaysky | $22,000 |
| Urschel, Matthew | The Role of Nitric Oxide in the Regulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis in the Cardiac Tissue of Three Species of Antarctic Fish. | UAF | Kristin O'Brien | $22,000 |
| Warner, Jim | Adaptations to Hibernation: Phenotypic Plasticity of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors . | UAF | Barbara Taylor | $22,000 |
| Williams, Cory | The effect of nutritional status on lipid metabolism in a monogastric predator: Implications for diet assessment using quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA). | UAF | Loren Buck | $22,000 |
| Alaska EPSCoR 2006/07 Graduate Fellowship -- Population Genetics | ||||
| Awardee | Project | Campus | Sponsor | Amount |
| Beecher, Jessica | Which species hybridized to form the allopolyplod Alaskan Arabidopsis lyrata? . | UAF | Diana Wolf | $22,000 |
| Bulgarella, Mariana | Population Genetics of Hemoglobin Evolution in Crested Ducks (Lophonetta speculariodes) . | UAF | Kevin McCracken | $22,000 |
| Timling, Ina | Identification of cold adapted fungi in Arctic tundra ecosystems. | UAF | Lee Taylor | $22,000 |
| Alaska EPSCoR 2006/07 Undergraduate Research Fellowships | ||||
| Awardee | Project | Campus |
Sponsor |
Amount |
| Guritz, Rodney | Persistent Organic Pollutants in Boreal Forest Leaf Litter. | UAF | Catherine Cahill | $3,000 |
| Herrington, Tammy | Seasonal changes in the body condition and field metabolic rate of a free-living, non-hibernation rodent in costal Alaskan taiga. | UAF | Ian van Tets | $3,000 |
| Malick, Willow | Effects of environment and season on a non-hibernating high latitude rodent, the Northern Red-backed vole (C.rutilus). | UAA | Jocelyn Krebs | $3,000 |
| Orion, Rev | The Impact of Inbreeding Depression on the Self-compatible and Outcrossing Species of Arabidopsis lyrata | UAF | Diana Wolf | $3,000 |
| Smith, Lisa | Identification of Proteins Involved in Mitochondrial Translocation of Yeast Flavohemoglobin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. | UAF | Kristin O'Brien | $3,000 |
| Whitmore, Christina | Plagioclase Crystallization at One Atmosphere and High Temperatures in Aleutian Andesites. | UAF | Jessica Larson | $3,000 |
| Wright, Grant | In Vitro Monitoring of Glutamate in Brain Slice Preparations of Arctic Ground Squirrels | UAF | B. Rasley / K. Drew | $3,000 |
| Alaska EPSCoR Summer 2007 Undergraduate Research Fellowships | ||||
| Awardee | Project |
Campus |
Sponsors | Amount |
| Bonham, Josie | Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA of Unknown Mammals from Cambodia | UAF | Link Olson | $5,000 |
| Connaker, Kevin | The Occurrence and Speciation of Iron and Associated Potentially Toxic Metals in Groundwater of Anchorage, AK: A Focus on Private Drinking Water Wells | UAA | LeeAnn Munk | $5,000 |
| Fleshman, Brandi | An Update to the Spider Fauna of Alaska | UAF | Derek Sikes | $5,000 |
| Houghton, Kelly | Influence of Exercise on Behavioral Thermoregulation | UAF | Abel Bult-Ito | $5,000 |
| Jeannet, M. Alyssa | 15N as a Proxy for Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake: A Study of How Diet Affects Expression of Obesity Genes in Yup'ik Eskimos | UAF | Diane O'Brien/ Bert Boyer | $5,000 |
| Lloyd, Tonya | Characterization of Frozen Soils Hydraulic Properties Using Ground Penetrating Radar | UAF | Debasmita Misra | $5,000 |
| Michael, Karen | Carbon and Nitrogen Leaching from Wetland Soil Profiles in Southeast Alaska | UAS | Eran Hood | $5,000 |
| Schultz, Arthur | Molecular and Morphological Diversity of Stylaster Corals in Alaska | UAA | Sergei Drovetski | $5,000 |