Awards - FRSES 2006

Best Graduate Student Oral Presentations:
1st
Molly Cavaleri
Colorado State University
"Estimating foliar nighttime respiration in a tropical forest canopy."
2nd
Mark Hayes
University of Northern Colorado
"Hibernacula selection by Townsend's big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii) in southwestern Colorado."
3rd
Seth Magle
Colorado State University
"A new method for estimating population densities for prairie dogs."
     
Best Graduate Student Poster Presentations:
1st
Meagan Bayless
University of Wyoming
"Biotic and abiotic drivers of soil respiration across a sagebrush fire chronosequence."
2nd
Zac German
Colorado State University
"Climate change at high elevation: decoupling warming from growing season length."
3rd
Michelle Haddix
Colorado State University
"Measuring the active fraction of soil corganic matter and its temperature sensitivity."
     
Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
1st
Rebeccca Kurup
Colorado State University
"Competition in limber pine seedlings."
     
Best High School Poster:
1st
Andres Garcia
Greeley West High School
"The effects of fertilization and herbivores on the diversity and dynamics of the surface active Collembola of the dry heath."