Previous McGinnies Scholarship Recipients
Name & Position | Institution | Year won & Department | Title/Subject of Dissertation |
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Ben Yang Ph.D. candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2022 Department of Environmental Science |
Investigating the role of soil microbiome in ecological restoration |
Sonia Delphin-Perez Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2021 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Land-use planning as a tool to promote sustainable development |
Matt Roby Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2020 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
How changes in the supply and demand of water on a warming planet impact ecosystem productivity, the source of food and fiber in drylands |
Xian Wang Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2019 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Advancing our understanding of dryland carbon uptake using novel remote sensing techniques |
Amy Hudson Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2018 School of Natural Resources and the Environment/Laboratory of Tree Ring Research |
Winds above as seen by plants below: the jet stream as a framework for dryland vegetation variability |
Joshua Scholl Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2018 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Why do some organisms produce morphologically different offspring at the same time? |
Erik Andersen Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2017 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Effects of Plant Invasions on Birds Breeding in Desert Grasslands |
Martha Gebhardt Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2017 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Linking Imaging Spectroscopy and Microbial Biogeochemistry to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Shrub Encroachment |
Mallory Barnes Ph.D. Candidate | University of Arizona | Year Won: 2016 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Drought in semi-arid ecosystems impacts carbon uptake and vegetation productivity across spatial and temporcal scales. |
Chris Guiterman Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2015 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Fire, land-use, and forest resilience in the US Southwest: Dendrochronology and applied historical ecology. |
Erin Zylstra Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2014 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Population dynamics of amphibians in desert mountain canyons. |
Zack Guido Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2013 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Informing Climate Adaptation: Climate Impacts on Glacial Systems and the Role of Information Brokering in Climate Services. |
Daniel Griffin Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2012 Department of Geography |
Dissertation: North American monsoon paleoclimatology from tree rings. |
Nick McKay Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2011 Department of Geosciences |
Dissertation: A multidisciplinary approach to Late Quaternary paleoclimatology on interannual to orbital timescales. |
Henry Adams Ph.D. Candidate (May 2011) |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2010 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Global change and drought-induced tree mortality: temperature sensitivity, mechanism, and ecohydological implications. |
Toby Ault Post-Doctoral Fellow |
National Center for Atmospheric Research | Year Won: 2009 Department of Geosciences |
Dissertation: The continuum of drought in western North America. |
Jeremy L. Weiss Ph.D. Candidate (May 2011) |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2009 Department of Geosciences |
Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Measures of Exposure and Sensitivity to Climatic Variability and Change: The Cases of Modern Sea Level Rise and Southwestern U.S. Bioclima |
Deanna Grimstead Ph.D. Candidate (Dec. 2011) |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2008 Department of Anthropology |
Dissertation: Population Aggregation, Biodeterioration, and Abrupt Climate Change: A Case Study of Human Extensification in Northwestern New Mexico. |
Katharine Gerst Research Associate |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2007 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: The Influence of Biogeography and Mating System on the Ecology of Desert Annual Plants |
Dawn Browning Research Physical Scientist |
USDA-ARS, Las Cruces | Year Won: 2007 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Woody plant dynamics in a Sonoran Desert ecosystem across scales: Remote sensing and historic field perspectives |
Adrian Munguia Vega Ph.D. Student |
University of Arizona | Year Won: 2006 School of Natural Resources and the Environment | Dissertation: Habitat fragmentation in the Baja California Peninsula and its effects on the genetic structure of four endemic vertebrates with contrasting dispersal behaviour. |
Kimberly A. Franklin Conservation Research Scientist |
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | Year Won: 2005 Insect Science Interdisciplinary Program |
Dissertation: The consequences of buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) development for biodiversity in the southern Sonoran Desert. |
Charles A. Price Assistant Professor |
School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia | Year Won: 2005 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Scaling the diversity of botanical form and function. |
Jessica M. Cable Research Scientist |
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska | Year Won: 2004 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Precipitation Effects on Soil Carbon Cycling in the Sonoran Desert. |
Camille Holmgren Ph.D. Student |
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ | Year Won: 2003 Department of Geosciences Desert Botanical Laboratory |
Dissertation: Discovering the Late Quaternary vegetation and climatic history of the Southwestern U.S.-Mexico Borderlands from fossil rodent middens. |
Nathan B. English Adjunct Faculty |
School of Earth & Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townesville, Australia | Year Won: 2003 Department of Geosciences |
Dissertation: Physiological basis of isotopic variation in giant saguaro: Are responses to climate recorded in spines? |
David Patrick Brown Assistant Professor |
Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University | Year Won: 2002 Geography and Regional Development |
Dissertation: Analyzing the nature and causes of winter season precipitation variability within the Southwest United States. |
Erika Geiger Supervisory Biologist |
Canyonlands Research Station U.S. Geological Survey | Year Won: 2002 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: The influence of fire and nonnative grasses on native grassland communities. |
Andrea Litt Assistant Professor |
Department of Ecology, Montana State University | Year Won: 2001 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Interactions of fire and lovegrass invasion and the concomitant effects on small mammals and invertebrates using a long-term manipulative field experiment at Fort Huachuca Military Reservation |
Timothy Shanahan Assistant Professor |
University of Texas | Year Won: 2001 Department of Geosciences |
Dissertation: Reconstructing a long-term, high-resolution record of aridity and dust production in the West African Sahel and the Sahara from lacustrine sediments from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana |
Kevin Hultine Post Doctoral Research Associate |
The University of Utah, Department of Biology | Year Won: 2000 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: The interaction between the hydrology of riparian ecosystems and the distribution and function of plant root systems |
Tamara Wilson Geographer |
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park | Year Won: 2000 Geography and Regional Development |
Dissertation: The use of packrat midden analysis in the reconstruction of vegetation history from central Baja, California |
Juliann Eve Aukema Conservation Biologist |
Aukema Conservation Science | Year Won: 1999 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: The dispersal and spatial patterns of the parasitic desert mistletoe and their relationship with their host trees and the birds that disperse their seeds. |
Donald A. Falk Professor |
The University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment | Year Won: 1998 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Forest Ecology |
Keirith Snyder Plant Physiologist |
USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental Range | Year Won: 1997 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Mechanisms that determine woody species distribution in semi-arid riparian areas and root allocation patterns of different functional types |
Elise Pendall Assistant Professor |
The University of Wyoming Department of Botany | Year Won: 1996 Geosciences |
Dissertation: Effects of climatic seasonality on the stable isotopic composition of plant cellulose and potential for paleoclimatic reconstruction |
Maria J. Clauss | Department of Genetics and Evolution Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology |
Year Won: 1995 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Evolution of life history strategies of plants |
Jake F. Weltzin Executive Director |
USA-National Phenology Network | Year Won: 1994 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Ecology of semi-desert grasslands and savannahs |
Sharon Helen Blendenbender Invasive Species Coordinator |
USDA Forest Service, Coronado National Forest | Year Won: 1993 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Germination requirements of Arizona native perennial grasses and their establishment in existing stands of Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees |
Franco Biondi Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Geography |
University of Nevada, Reno Department of Geography | Year Won: 1992 School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
Dissertation: Spatial and temporal reconstruction of twentieth century growth trends in a naturally seeded pine forest |
Peter K. Van de Water Assistant Professor |
Department of Earth & Environmental Science, California State University, Fresno | Year Won: 1991 Geosciences |
Dissertation: Morphological changes in Pinus flexilis needles across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary due to atmospheric carbon dioxide increases |
Catherine E. Pake Biology Instructor |
Portland Community College Biology and Environmental Science Rock Creek Campus |
Year Won: 1990 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Sonoran Desert annual plants: Empirical tests of models of coexistence and persistence in a temporally variable environment |
Marissa Pantastico Biology and Microbiology Faculty |
Los Angeles Trade Technical College | Year Won: 1989 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Competition in desert winter annuals: Effects of spatial and temporal variation |
Gordon A. Fox Assistant Professor |
The University of South Florida Department of Biology & Department of Environmental Science & Policy |
Year Won: 1988 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Adaptation, history, and development in the evolution of a desert annual life history |
Michael J. Sanderson Professor |
University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Year Won: 1988 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Patterns of homoplasy in North American Astragalus |
Judith Xiutzal Becerra Associate Research Professor |
The University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Behavior | Year Won: 1987 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: Adaptations to ecological interaction |
James R. Malusa Research Specialist, Principal |
The University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment | Year Won: 1986 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: The phylogeny and water relations of pinyon in relation to the vicariance biogeography of the Southwest |
Julio L. Betancourt Senior Scientist; Professor |
U.S. Geological Survey; Dept. of Geosciences, School of Geography & Regional Development, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Arizona | Year Won: 1985 Geosciences |
Dissertation: Tucson's Santa Cruz River and the arroyo legacy |