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UAA's ENRI and the Biology Department have secured the 2011 Global Climate Change Funding for Graduate and Undergraduate students. Each year a competition is held for research funds supplied by UAA and UAF for Global Climate Change studies and this year 78 applications were received and 16 awards were made.  This collaborative UAA-UAF Fellowship program administered by the UAF Center for Global Climate Change.  This funding  has supported a total of 17 UAA Fellowships over the past 3 years.  The average award size is $9000.00.

Five students received funding from the Center for Global Climate Change and Arctic System Research (CGC) for studies in Alaska ranging from ground squirrel gut microbial physiology to wolf feeding ecology in the Lake Clark region.

The 2011 Awardees are:

Undergraduate student awards

.       Brian Quinlan, Department of Biological Sciences, UAA: Dynamics of gut microbiota in juvenile arctic ground squirrels-Duddleson & Buck advisors

Graduate student awards

.       Lauren Caruso, Department of Biological Sciences & ENRI, UAA: Understanding moose foraging behavior in response to changes in the structure and composition of food types-Spalinger major professor

.       Emily Lescak, Department of Biological Sciences & ENRI, UAA: Genomic evolution in 45 year old populations of threespine stickleback-VonHippel-major professor

.       Aliza Segal, Department of Biological Sciences & ENRI, UAA: Partitioning ecosystem respiration in an arctic ecosystem to more accurately forecast changes in the carbon cycle-Sullivan major professor

.       Ashley Stanek, Department of Biological Sciences & ENRI, UAA: Cascading effects of climate phases on the feeding ecology of gray wolves (Canis lupus) of southwest Alaska-Welker major professor