ANNOUNCING THE 2016 STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT AND DEVELOPING NATIONS RESEARCH AWARDS
Alison Bell, Senior Member-at-Large,
Chair 2016 Student Research Grant Committee
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Student Research Grants and the Developing Nations Research Awards. We received many high-quality proposals, but as in previous years, the number of applications exceeded the number we could fund. Of the 155 applications submitted, 53 were awarded funding.
Each proposal was reviewed independently by at least two referees, who provided evaluations and constructive feedback for the student grant writers. As always, members of the Society went above and beyond to provide constructive reviews. The Research Grant Committee extends a very heartfelt thank you to the following referees:
Maria Abate, Anita Aisenberg, Eric Albert, Maria Albo, Boris Almonacid, Daniela Dmbrosquinsani, Christopher Anderson, John Angel, Christopher Appelt, Jimena Aracena, Arrilton Araujo, Bryan Arnold, Cecile Ashen-Young, Barbara Ballentine, Jessie Barker, Luciana Baruffaldi, Matthew Bealor, Elizabeth Becker, Daniel Becker, Karl Berg, Sue Bertram, Andrea Bierema, Rafael Blanes, Rachael Bonoan, Jane Brockmann, Stephen Burnett, Daniela Campobello, Joe Casto, MarthaLeah Chaiken, Kenneth Chapin, Gloriana Chaverri, Tom Contreras, Catherine Cornwell, Rebecca Croston, Rogerio Cunha, Leslie Curren, Victoria Cussen, Nicholas DiRienzo, F. DOBSON, Ned Dochtermann, Gary Dodson, Ming Duan, Julie Duboscq, Peter Dunn, Teresa Dzieweczynski, Marcela Fernandez, Kasey Fowler-Finn, Gabriel Francescoli, Becca Franks, Todd Freeberg, Jessica Fujii, Caitlin Gabor, Megan Gall, Eliane Goncalves de Freitas, Kathleen Grogan, Andre Guaraldo, Sarah Guindre-Parker, Charles Gunnels, Lisa Gunter, Monique Halloy, Shala Hankison, Margret Hatch, Ann Hedrick, Heather Hill, Christy Hoffman, Sarah Hollis, Michael Hrncir, Amanda Hubbard, David Hudson, Jodee Hunt, Kim Hunter, Edward Hurme, Anne Jacobs, Rudolf Jander, Michele Johnson, Kevin Judge, Laurie Kauffman, Clint Kelly, David Kikuchi, Rosemary Knapp, Carolyn Kocman, Astrid Kodric-Brown, Jennifer Kovacs, Ipek Kulahci, Kate Laskowski, Joseph Leese, Gavin Leighton, Stuart Leonard, Maureen Leonard, Aliza LeRoux, Russell Ligon, Hangkyo Lim, Alice Lima, David Logue, Matthew Louder, Kirsty MacLeod, Tara Mandalaywala, Lilian Manica, Sue Margulis, Jennifer Mather, Maria Maust-Mohl, Jesyka Melendez, Tamra Mendelson, Deepa Menon, Abraham Miller, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Rachel Morrison, Catherine Mossman, Paul Nealen, Eleni Nikitopoulos, Cassandra Nunez, Brian Palestis, Ann Paterson, Kathryn Peiman, Adriana Perea, Mario Pesendorfer, Andrea Presotto, Mariana Pueta, Malcolm Ramsay, Claudia Rauter, Adam Reddon, Dustin Reichard, Pablo Ribeiro, Clare Rittschof, Cora Romanow, Kristen Roosa, Stacy Rosenbaum, Malcolm Rosenthal, Raphael Royaute, Becca Safran, Paul Saft, Bruce Schulte, Trish Schwagmeyer, Nancy Scott, Michelle Scott, Trish Sevene, Melissa Shyan-Norwalt, Lynn Siefferman, Kristina Smiley, Emilie Snell-Rood, Jennifer Sobie, Monique Sosnowski, Jay Stafstrom, Caitlin Stern, Piyumika Suriyampola, Conor Taff, Ben Taft, Ryan Taylor, Kevin Theis, Monique Udell, Alex Uhrich, Adriana Vallarino, Mariana Velasque, Christian Vlautin, Sara Waller, Eric Walters, Heather Waye, Melinda Weaver, Stacey Weiss, Mary West-Eberhard, Tina Wey, Danielle Whittaker, Tim Wright, Ka Chow, Jessica Yorzinski, M. Zee, Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo.
We were helped immensely by Adam Kohm and Lorena McMahon at SPLTrak, who administered the online grant submission and review system that ran with very few hiccups. Beth Jakob (2nd Member-at-Large) and Emily DuVal (3rd Member-at-Large) made important contributions during the entire process. Thank you to them also. Most importantly, we want to thank all the members of the Society who have supported this program over the years and who have donated funds to make this program such a success.
GEORGE W. BARLOW AWARD
Michael McQuillan, Lehigh University, A Test of Cognitive Ability as a Reproductive Isolating Barrier
E. O. WILSON CONSERVATION AWARD
Amanda Franklin, Tufts University, Muddled Messages: The Impact of Increased Turbidity on Stomatopod Signaling
DAVID TUBER APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AWARD
Sarah Adcock, University of California, No pain, no gain: Does persistent pain following injury affect responsiveness to predators?
AMY R. SAMUELS CETACEAN BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION AWARD
Khamila Cruz, Pesquisador, How do Guiana dolphins share a small estuary with boats?
STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS
Mikus Abolins-Abols, Indiana University, Hormonal Regulation of a Social Feather Ornament
Alissa Anderson, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, The Effect of Copulatory Silk Wrapping on Sperm Competition in the Nusery Web Spider, Pisaurina mira
Chelsea Bennice, Florida Atlantic University, Niche partitioning by the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and the mimic octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi) in a tropical sandy habitat in Florida
Andrea C Boyer, University of Western Ontario, Effects Of Seasonal Inclement Weather Cues On White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
Erin Brandt, University of California, Berkeley, Males like it hot? Sacrifice of Survival for Reproduction in a Jumping Spider
Sarah Burgan, University of South Florida, Repeated Parasite Exposure: Implications for Host Defense Strategy and Transmission
Katharine Burke, SUNY University at Buffalo, Social Network, Personality and Stress Levels in Juvenile Rhesus
Julie Butler, Louisiana State University, Impact of Anthropogenic Noise on Fish Behavior, Communication, and Neural Processing of Sensory and Social Signals
Timothy Campbell, Texas A&M University, Analysis of Preferential Prey Body Part Consumption in East African Owls
Elise Marie Couillard, University of Manitoba, Is the Black-tailed Prairie Dog's Awareness of Neighboring Vigilance Spatially Explicit?
Megan Cox, St. Cloud State University, Modulation of Estrogenic Effects Via Temperature on Two Life Stages of Pimephales promelas
Pedro de Moraes University of Brasilia, Parental behavior of the Neotropical bird Volatinia jacarina under predation risk
Tatiana Dolgushina, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Social Influences On Vocal Babbling In A Wild Parrot
Kristin Duffield, Illinois State University, Give it all we got tonight? Terminal investment and male cricket calling effort
Stephen Ferguson, University of Memphis, Nestling behavioral and physiological responses to parental territory defense
Grace Freymiller, San Diego State University, Interspecific variation in anti-snake evasive behavior of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp.)
Caitlin Friesen, University of Texas at Austin, The effect of exogenous estrogen on visual signaling in fish
Sarah Gardner, Transylvania University, Hormonal and Behavioral Consequences of Disrupted Genomic Imprinting for Maternal Care in an Interspecific Mouse Cross
Kelly Hougland, University of Missouri Columbia, Use of Social Information in the Synchronous Emergence of Periodical Cicadas
Jennifer Howard, Wake Forest University, Ontogeny of foraging behavior of a marine predator, the Nazca booby (Sula granti)
Edward Hurme, University of Maryland, Foraging flights track dynamic environment in the fish-eating bat, Myotis vivesi
Beryl Jones, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Laying Worker Honey Bees: A Glimpse of Ancestral Behavior?
Blake Jones, University of Memphis, Assessing the effects of stress physiology on long-lasting memory in a free-living animal
Janice Kelly, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Density dependent effects of conspecific cue use for habitat selection and reproductive success in Yellow Warblers (Setophaga petechia)
Tosha Ruth Kelly, Western University, Behavioural responses to infectious disease during migration in songbirds
Whitley Lehto, University of Denver, Stress-Induced Parental Effects On Offspring Mate Choice: Ultimate Drivers And Proximate Mechanisms Using The Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Cheng-Yu Li, University of Alabama, Neural Mechanisms Guiding Behavioral Responses to Social Fighting Experience
Steven Kevin McCormick, Michigan State University, Behavioral Epigenetics in Spotted Hyenas: Personality and Development
Logan McDonald, Virginia Commonwealth University, Effects of fire disturbance on multiscale habitat selection by Cope's gray tree frog
Lisa Mitchem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Color Vision in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Jennifer Morinay, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University – CNRS, Eavesdropping on Heterospecific Acoustic Display: Information Used for Small Scale Habitat Quality Assessment in Collared Flycatchers?
Nadje Najar, University of Northern Colorado, Geographic Patterns of Song Complexity in the Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus)
Lindsey Nietmann, University of Washington, Novel Predator Recognition in Island and Continental Rufous Fantails (Rhipidura rufifrons)
Taylor Polvadore, University of Florida, Bounding and leaping kinematics in two African colobine monkeys
Luke Reding, University of Texas at Austin, Rationality of choice behavior in a swordtail
Natalie Roberts, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Behavior at the Species Boundary: the Overlooked Role of Male Mate Choice in a Sexually Dimorphic Species
Hannes Schraft, San Diego State University, Do Infrared-Sensing Rattlesnakes (Crotalus spp.) Eavesdrop on Prey Body Temperature?
Spencer Schubert, Old Dominion University, Influence of seasonally varying seed dispersal behaviors of colonially nesting birds on plant reproductive success
Samuel Slowinski, Indiana University, How do malaria parasites alter the attractiveness of their avian hosts to vectors?
Meredith Steck, University of Minnesota, Trade-offs in the Sensory Ecology of a Host-Searching Butterfly
Meghan Still, University of Texas at Austin, Complex Social Stimuli in a Neotropical Anuran Species: The Role of Multimodal Signals in Male-Male Competition
Jessie C. Tanner, University of Minnesota, Shaping Female Preference Functions: The Effect of Biologically Relevant Noise on Receiver Error Rates
Nicole Thompson, Columbia University, The Benefits of Social Connection During Development in Blue Monkeys
Sheela Turbek, University of Colorado, Boulder, The Relative Significance of Migration and Sexual Signaling in Gene Flow Across Replicate Hybrid Zones
Kirsten Verster, University of Arizona, Lord of the flies: the evolution of parasitoid resistance in insects through behavioral change
James Watts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fitness Consequences of Geographic Variation in Mate Choice in a Wolf Spider
Brian Whyte, University of California Berkeley, On the Inheritance of Supercolony Identity and the Collapse of Invasive Argentine Ant Societies
Colin Wright, University of Pittsburgh, Who's in charge? Does keystone experience override colony experience in conflicting predation regimes?
David Zonana, University of Colorado, Boulder, Social Networks and Patterns of Paternity across a Callipepla Quail Hybrid Zone
DEVELOPING NATIONS RESEARCH AWARDS
Irene Pandulli Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Can female spiders cryptically bias paternity according to gift content?Melina Brividoro CONICET, Sleeping group patterns in black and gold howler monkeys during nocturnal rest and sleeping site selection: Effects of socio-ecological factors
Boris Almonacid Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Predict flight patterns of the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus).
Pedro Ribeiro UFPR, Cooperative displays of blue manakins (Chiroxiphia caudata) and copulation success
Milene Garbim Gaiotti Universidade de Brasilia, Social and genetic mating system of the Araripe manakin (Aves: Pipridae): the role of sexual selection