Listed here are the people awarded the McGinnies Fellowship in past years, along with their current position, year awarded, their department, and the title or subject of their dissertation.
Amy Hudson
Ph.D. Candidate
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Year Won: 2012
Department of Geography |
Dissertation: North American monsoon paleoclimatology from tree rings. |
Nick McKay
Ph.D. Candidate |
University of Arizona
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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University of Arizona
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Year Won: 2006
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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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
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
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Year Won: 2005
Insect Science Interdisciplinary Program
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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
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Year Won: 2005
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Scaling the diversity of botanical form and function. |
Jessica M. Cable
Research Scientist
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Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska
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Year Won: 2004
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Precipitation Effects on Soil Carbon Cycling in the Sonoran Desert. |
Camille Holmgren
Ph.D. Student
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The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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Year Won: 2003
Department of Geosciences Desert Botanical Laboratory
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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
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Year Won: 2003
Department of Geosciences
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Dissertation: Physiological basis of isotopic variation in giant saguaro: Are responses to climate recorded in spines? |
David Patrick Brown
Assistant Professor
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Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
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Year Won: 2002
Geography and Regional Development
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Dissertation: Analyzing the nature and causes of winter season precipitation variability within the Southwest United States. |
Erika Geiger
Supervisory Biologist
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Canyonlands Research Station U.S. Geological Survey
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Year Won: 2002
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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Dissertation: The influence of fire and nonnative grasses on native grassland communities. |
Andrea Litt
Assistant Professor
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Department of Ecology, Montana State University
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Year Won: 2001
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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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
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Year Won: 2001
Department of Geosciences
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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
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The University of Utah, Department of Biology
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Year Won: 2000
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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Dissertation: The interaction between the hydrology of riparian ecosystems and the distribution and function of plant root systems |
Tamara Wilson
Geographer
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U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
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Year Won: 2000
Geography and Regional Development
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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
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Year Won: 1999
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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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
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The University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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Year Won: 1998
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Forest Ecology |
Keirith Snyder
Plant Physiologist
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USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental Range
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Year Won: 1997
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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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
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Year Won: 1996
Geosciences
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Dissertation: Effects of climatic seasonality on the stable isotopic composition of plant cellulose and potential for paleoclimatic reconstruction |
Maria J. Clauss
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Department of Genetics and Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
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Year Won: 1995
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Evolution of life history strategies of plants |
Jake F. Weltzin
Executive Director
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USA-National Phenology Network
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Year Won: 1994
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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Dissertation: Ecology of semi-desert grasslands and savannahs |
Sharon Helen Blendenbender
Invasive Species Coordinator
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USDA Forest Service, Coronado National Forest
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Year Won: 1993
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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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
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Year Won: 1992
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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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
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Year Won: 1991
Geosciences
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Dissertation: Morphological changes in Pinus flexilis needles across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary due to atmospheric carbon dioxide increases |
Catherine E. Pake
Biology Instructor
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Portland Community College
Biology and Environmental Science
Rock Creek Campus
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Year Won: 1990
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Sonoran Desert annual plants: Empirical tests of models of coexistence and persistence in a temporally variable environment |
Marissa Pantastico
Biology and Microbiology Faculty
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Los Angeles Trade Technical College
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Year Won: 1989
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Competition in desert winter annuals: Effects of spatial and temporal variation |
Gordon A. Fox
Assistant Professor
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The University of South Florida
Department of Biology & Department of Environmental Science & Policy
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Year Won: 1988
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Adaptation, history, and development in the evolution of a desert annual life history |
Michael J. Sanderson
Professor
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University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Year Won: 1988
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Patterns of homoplasy in North American Astragalus |
Judith Xiutzal Becerra
Associate Research Professor
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The University of Arizona, Ecology & Evolutionary Behavior
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Year Won: 1987
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: Adaptations to ecological interaction |
James R. Malusa
Research Specialist, Principal |
The University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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Year Won: 1986
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dissertation: The phylogeny and water relations of pinyon in relation to the vicariance biogeography of the Southwest |
Julio L. Betancourt
Senior Scientist; Professor
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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
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Year Won: 1985
Geosciences
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Dissertation: Tucson's Santa Cruz River and the arroyo legacy |