Student Achievements
Graduate Students Receive Grants for Summer Research
May 04, 2020
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the Presidential Research Grant Recipients for the Spring/Summer 2020 semester:
Josh Arnold, Biology
Research Advisor: Eric Snyder
Title: Assessing the
Short-term Effects of Translocation on Freshwater Mussels: Is
Habitat or Water Quality More Important?
Bert Cary, Biology
Research Advisor: Mark Luttenton
Title: Quantifying
Available Trout Habitat in the North Branch Au Sable River. Michigan
Megan Mader, Biology/Annis Water Resources Institute
Research Advisor: Carl Ruetz
Title: Effects of Shoreline
Development and Land Cover on Fish Communities Along a Latitudinal
Gradient in Eastern Lake Michigan
Maria Weston, Biology
Research Advisor: Paul Keenlance
Title: Using Occupancy
Modeling to Estimate American Marten Distribution in Michigan's
Lower Peninsula
Derek Bennett, Biology
Research Advisor: Jennifer Winther
Title: Characterizing
AM Fungal Contributions to Soil Quality, Nutrient Absorption and
Plant Growth in West Michigan Till and No-Till Corn Fields
Paul Dingman, Biology
Research Advisor: Mark Luttenton
Title: Using Multiple
Technologies to Quantify Macroinvertebrate Abundance in Different
Substrates of the North Branch of the Au Sable River
William Mulligan, Biology
Research Advisor: Mark Luttenton
Title: Predicting the
Internal Phosphorus Load in Higgins Lake, Michigan
Emily Neuman, Biology
Research Advisor: Sarah Hamsher
Title: Star Wars:
Phenology of Nitellopsis obtusa in Two Michigan Drowned River Mouths
Kathryn Sheets, Biology/Annis Water Resources Institute
Research Advisor: Alan Steinman
Title: Mining
Matters: Predation Pressure and Water Quality in Young Sand Mine Lakes