News

Graduate student Ana Miller-Ter Kuile was awarded an NSF AGEP grant to increase representation of traditionally underrepresented groups in the Academy.

Postdoctoral student John Schroeder receives a Smithsonian postdoctoral fellowship. 

Graduate student Michelle Lee and undergraduate, Tiger Lao, received a Schmidt Family Foundation Research Mentorship grant. 

Georgia Titcomb is the lead author of a new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Elizabeth Forbes was awarded a Schmidt family foundation Research Accelerator grant.

Michelle Lee received a Coastal Fund grant to further last year's project with undergraduate, Megan Oza.

March 2019 - A new paper out in Microbial Ecology, which Dr. Young coauthored, explores the drivers of variation in microbial communities on western gulls across their California range, including from the local Channel Island gull community.

Caroline Owens recently received a grant from Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve (VESR)

February 2019 - Dr. Young worked with visiting Pakistani scholar Dr. Noreen Khalid to understand effects of road proximity on heavy metal accumulation in plant communities here in California. The paper was published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

With the removal of invasive rats from Palmyra Atoll, its native vegetation is making a grand comeback