Examples of Student Research Projects

(* indicates presentation at a scientific meeting)

-*Restoration of alpine tundra (several projects).
-*Association of jaguar and sea turtle activities.
-*RAPDs analysis of genetic variation of oak.
-Soil respiration in a semi-arid shrub-grass mosaic.
-Biological assessment of a Black Forest ranch.
-Remote sensing of eutrophication in a Western reservoir.
-13-year vegetation changes in a Colorado state park.
-Controls on successional and stable aspen stands, San Juan Mts.
-Distributions of two herps in a Northwest forest.
-* Interannual variation in feeding habits of seabirds.
-Causes of coral bleaching in the Caribbean.
-Effects of increased snow on alpine plants.
-Termite food habits in Africa.
-* Insect responses to landscape fragmentation.
-* Seed bank in a native prairie.
-* Isozyme differentiation of two populations of Yucca glauca
-Radish growth under ambient and doubled CO2.
-* Successional mechanisms in alpine vegetation.
-Land use in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
-Elk management in Yellowstone.
-Tree growth under alternatives to clear-cutting, Washington.
-Environmental architecture in southwestern US.
-Monitoring peregrine falcon populations.
-Environmental requirements of a rare plant.
-Invertebrate communities in desert potholes, Utah.
-*Limitations on photosynthesis in an alpine plant.