SEEDS: Newsletter > Volume 4, Issue 8 - October 2006

SEEDS Update: Congratulations 2005-06 SEEDS Fellows!

The 2005-06 Fellows finished their fellowship by presenting their research at the 2006 ESA Annual Meeting.

Noemi Baquera
Contributed Oral Session 28 – Agroecology
Determining vegetation coverage and changes in land use under the quesungual slash and mulch agroforestry system. N. Baquera (S)¹,*, Herrick, J.E. (M)² and M. Ayarza³. ¹ The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, ² USDA / Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, ³ CIAT- Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Jorge Ramos
Poster Session 13 – Animal ecology: mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles
Population sizes, site usage, and behavior of harbor and gray seals in the Isles of Shoals, Gulf of Maine. J. Ramos (S)¹,* and Shulman, M.². ¹ University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, ² Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Christina Wong
Poster Session 16 – Urban ecology
Desert crusts in an urban landscape: responses of N₂ fixation to anthropogenic C and N deposition. C.P. Wong (S)¹,*, Grimm, N.B. (M)² and R. Sponseller³. ¹ Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA, ² Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, ³ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Congratulations also to Andrea Rivera of the 2005-2006 fellowship group! Andrea completed her research on the effects of the alga Turbinaria ornata on growth and survival of the juvenile coral Pocillopora verrucosa. Andrea conducted her research on the coast of Tahiti at the Moorea Coral Reef LTER and will present her work at the 2007 ESA Annual Meeting in San Jose.

For more information on the SEEDS Undergraduate Research Fellowship, visit http://www.esa.org/seeds/activities/FellowshipsInfo.php