Recent Awards and Grants Received by MDL Personnel

2008

Grant Elliott, an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, an American Alpine Club Research Grant, Honorable Mention in the Mountain Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Student Research Grant Competition, and an Association of American Geographers Dissertation Research Grant

Evan Larson, a student research grant from the Mazamas, 1st Place in the Graduate Student Affinity Group of the Association of American Geographers Student Paper Competition, the Mountain Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Chimborazo Student Research Grant, an Association of American Geographers Dissertation Research Grant, a Carolyn Crosby Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Graduate School, and a University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Julia Rauchfuss and Susy Ziegler were awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled "Disturbance History and Regeneration Patterns in the Big Woods of Minnesota"

2007

Ruth Baker, a University of Minnesota Dove Fellowship

Grant Elliott, the Biogeography Specialty Group Ph.D. Research Grant and a University of Minnesota Graduate School Thesis Research Grant

Kurt Kipfmueller, NOAA Funding to examine the climate response of western five-needle conifers and NSF Funding to conduct a multi-proxy examination of past mountain pine beetle dynamics in subalpine forests

Evan Larson, the prestigious Golden Shovel Award from the University of Minnesota Department of Geography.

Jens Loberg, The University of Minnesota President's Student Leadership & Service Award

Sarah Margoles, a grant from the Bell Museum and a Conservation Biology Summer Fellowship

Julia Rauchfuss received a Department of Geography Summer Fellowship, a University of Minnesota Graduate School Thesis Research Grant

Susy Ziegler, Association of American Geographers Research Grant

2006

Evan Larson and Kurt Kipfmueller were awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled "Fire Regimes, Forest Succession, and the Varying Effects of Fire Suppression Across the Central Range of Whitebark Pine"