Leal Anne Kerry Mertes Scholarship Award Recipients
| Year Awarded | Student Name | Department | Class | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kate Culhane | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | Fire and debris flows: Short-term responses to high-severity disturbances in California stream and riparian communities |
| 2017 | Erica Goto | Geography | Graduate | Landslides in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil: An Analysis of Risk and Exposure |
| 2015 | Corbin Hodges | Geography | Graduate | |
| 2014 | Alexander Neely | Earth Science | Graduate | Reading Landscapes and Characterizing Faults from a Digital Elevation Model, Santa Cruz Island, California |
| 2014 | Nina Bingham | Geography | Graduate | Understanding the cow-terracette link in a Mediterranean Climate |
| 2013 | Nicholas Huynh | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Undergraduate | Growth, bacterial resilience, and mucosal microbial assemblages of wild and cultured California intertidal finfish |
| 2013 | Kimberly Hartson | Psychology | Graduate | Using affirmation to improve health outcomes of individuals coping with chronic illness |
| 2013 | Erin Hanan | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | Controls over nitrogen cycling in California Chaparral |
| 2012 | Dana Bardolph | Anthropology | Graduate | Feeding the Ancestors: Rethinking Polity Formation and Domestic Economy in the Moche Valley, Peru |
| 2012 | Andrea Adams | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | The biology of extinction: Examining the role of an epidemic disease in shaping amphibian community structure |
| 2011 | Erin Morecai | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | Pathogen effects on plant communities |
| 2010 | Nate Royal | Geography | Graduate | Guinea worm and its spread: Nomadic movements and Guinea worm's spread in Tillaberry, Niger |
| 2009 | Loren Merrill | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | Do female cowbirds use male vocal performance to assess male quality? |
| 2009 | Bryan Murray | Earth Science | Graduate | The age of volcanism and crustal extension in the sierra madre occidental silicic large igneous province (Mexico) |
| 2008 | Seeta Sistla | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | How does arctic shrub expansion influence soil nutrient cycling thorugh changes in the rhizosphere |
| 2008 | Brett Hartman | Geography | Graduate | A community development approach to ecological restoration in developing nations: Case study analyses from the highlands of Peru and Bolivia |
| 2007 | Amy Lerner | Geography | Graduate | The impact of urbanization and global food policy on the future of maize livelihoods and land-cover in the Toluca de Lerdo Valley, Mexico |
| 2007 | Natalie Doerr | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | Do male great bowerbirds minimize the costs associated with acquiring bower decorations by re-using decorations acquired in previous breeding seasons? |
| 2007 | Mary K. Donovan | Geography | Undergraduate | Coral Reef Structure Across a Human Impact Gradienft the role of biodiversity and the implications for human welfare |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Madin | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Graduate | Unexpected Indirect Consequences of Predator Removal on Coral Reef Community Structure |
| 2006 | Laurel Sutter | Geography | Graduate | Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Evolving Agricultural Frontier: Peten, Guatamala |