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.
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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 |
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Joshua Scholl
Ph.D. Candidate
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University of Arizona |
Year Won: 2018 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: TBD |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Katharine Gerst
Research Associate |
University of Arizona
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Year Won: 2007
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Dissertation: The Influence of Biogeography and Mating System on the Ecology of Desert Annual Plants |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |