Discovery Day - 2023 Program

MAY 3, 2023
Discovery Day 2023

Discovery Day 2023
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2023
11:30AM - 1:30PM
FRICK CHEMISTRY LAB ATRIUM
Charlotte Adamo ’22 (right) discusses her research on parental care
in avian cooperative breeders with Shane Campbell-Staton, Assistant
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (left).
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
Cover
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

High Meadows Environmental Institute
(HMEI) is pleased to host the tenth annual
Discovery Day event – a multidisciplinary
poster show celebrating student research on
environmental topics.
The event provides an opportunity for
students to display and discuss their
research methodologies and results, to
exchange perspectives and to identify
potential solutions to pressing
environmental challenges.
This year, 100 students from 26 academic
departments, mentored by 71 faculty
advisers, are presenting their work.
Please join us in offering congratulations to
the students and heartfelt appreciation to
the many people who have encouraged and
supported their research endeavors.
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For display purposes, student posters are organized into groupings by
focal themes. A graphic showing the location of the groupings appears
on pages 12-13.
Biodiversity and Conservation ..................... [A]
Climate and Environmental Science. ................ [B]
Environmental Policy and Society .................. [C]
Health and Disease. .............................. [D]
New Energy Future. .............................. [E]
Urban Planning and Sustainable Communities........ [F]
Water and the Environment. ....................... [G]
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Student Projects
Students presenting their work are listed alphabetically by student
last name. Unless otherwise noted, students are seniors in the Class of
2023. An asterisk denotes graduate student.
JOEL O. ABRAHAM*
EEB [G]
ADVISER:
ROB PRINGLE
Fire-flooding Interactions in Parque Nacional
da Gorongosa, Mozambique
JUAN PABLO
ALVARADO
CEE [G]
ADVISER:
IAN BOURG
Mexico City’s Water Management:
“Tula No Se Inundó, La Inundaron”
SHASHANK K. ANAND*
CEE [C]
ADVISER:
AMILCARE PORPORATO
Estimating Soil Erosion Rates at Human
Time Scale
STAV BEJERANO
PHI [C]
ADVISER:
ANNA STILZ
Animal Exploitation and the
Capitalist Growth Drive:
Towards an Ecosocialist Philosophy
CAMILLE BOYLAN
SPIA [E]
ADVISER:
CHRIS GREIG
Resolving Chicken-and-Egg Bottlenecks Facing
the Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies
for the United States Net-Zero Transition
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SARAH IRENE BROWN
ANT [F]
ADVISER:
JOÃO BIEHL
Refugee and Migrant Health Care as
Climate Action
JOHN BULLOCK
EEB [A]
ADVISERS:
ANDREW DOBSON;
JULIEN AYROLES
Is it a Moo-t Point? Employing Molecular
Methods to Analyze Acaricide Effectiveness
Against Heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium)
in Cows (Bos taurus)
JENSERIC CALIMAG
EEB [G]
ADVISER:
JULIEN AYROLES
Applied Evolutionary Mismatch Theory:
Degrees of Water Security as Health
Determinants across Lifestyles in Kenya
ASHLEY CAO
CEE [G]
ADVISER:
REED MAXWELL
Using Field-Informed Hydrologic Modeling to
Understand Species-Specific Plant Water Stress
Under Differing Climate Scenarios
DARCY CHANG
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
MARY CASWELL
(CASSIE) STODDARD
Foraging Behavior of Broad-Tailed
Hummingbirds in the Rocky Mountains:
Sex Differences, Floral Abundance, and
Visual Ecology
MATTHEW CHAO
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ANDREW DOBSON
Gastrointestinal Parasites in Bison and Elk
of Yellowstone National Park
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CALIF CHEN
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER
Building Equitable Outcomes, BRIC by BRIC:
Investigating Barriers to Coastal Resilience
Funding Faced by Disadvantaged
Communities
LAWRENCE J. CHEN
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ANDREW DOBSON
Parasites of Invasive Lionfish in Panama:
Spatiotemporal Comparisons
DAHYUN CHOI*
POL [C]
ADVISER:
HELEN MILNER
Teaming Up with the Enemy:
Firms and the Information Environment of
Climate Regulations
GLEN CHUA*
AOS [E]
ADVISER:
LARRY HOROWITZ
Climate and Atmospheric Composition Effects
of Hydrogen Leakage under Different Methane
Emission Scenarios
EVE COOKE
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
LARS HEDIN
In the Seaweeds:
Characterizing Epiphytic Macroalgal
Assemblages in Hawaiian Mangrove Forests
SESSINA DANI
EEB [A]
ADVISERS:
JULIEN AYROLES;
ROB PRINGLE
The Case for Omnivory:
Intraguild Predation of Plant-Dwelling
Arthropods by Large Mammalian Herbivores
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IPSITA DEY*
ANT [C]
ADVISERS:
AGUSTÍN FUENTES;
JERRY ZEE
A Tale of Two Snakes:
Degei and Kaliya Cosmologies in the
Sigatoka River Valley, Fiji
FRANCESCA DIMARE
CHM [E]
ADVISER:
PAUL CHIRIK
Evaluation of Phenoxythiazoline-Cobalt
Catalysts for C(sp 2 )–C(sp 3 ) Suzuki
Cross-Coupling Reactions
YAXIN DUAN
CBE [B]
ADVISER:
SUJIT DATTA
Elucidating the Onset of Chemotaxis in
Bioremediation
KEENAN DUGGAL
MOL [B]
ADVISER:
MARTIN JONIKAS
Plants, Pathogens and Algae:
Modern Approaches to Bolstering Global
Food Security
ANNABEL DUPONT
ANT [F]
ADVISER:
HANNA GARTH
Growing as the Trees Grow:
A Study of Human-Tree Interactions in South
Central Los Angeles
ADAM ELKINS
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
NICKY SHEATS
Zoning In and Out:
Land Use Policies and Environmental Justice
in Chicago and Houston
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JULIA ELMAN
SPIA [D]
ADVISER:
DOUGLAS MASSEY
“Our Bodies, Our Land, Our Choice, Our Voice”
Environmental Justice and Reproductive Rights:
The Fight For Bodily Autonomy Through
Coalition Politics
LEAH EMANUEL
ANT [F]
ADVISER:
JERRY ZEE
A Journey to the Heart of Energy in America:
The Convergence of Diverse Temporalities in
the West Texas Landscape
MADISON R.
ESPOSITO
CHM [E]
ADVISER:
PAUL CHIRIK
Bis(Phosphine) Cationic Co(I)- and Neutral
Co(0)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation
of Pharmaceutically-Relevant Functionalized
Enamides
HANNAH FAUGHNAN
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
BRIDGETT VONHOLDT
Exploring Molecular Evolution of Social
Behavior in Dogs
NAOMI FRIM-ABRAMS
SOC [C]
ADVISER:
KRISTOPHER VELASCO
Social Prescribing in the United Kingdom:
The Role of Organizational Networks and
Implications for the United States
CLAIRE GALAT
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ROB PRINGLE
The Circle of Life:
Examining the Food Web in the Heart of Kenya
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LUKE GEIGER
EEB [A]
ADVISERS:
SARAH KOCHER;
CATHERINE PEÑA
Similar Neurotranscriptomic Responses to
Social Isolation in Vertebrate and Invertebrate
Species
ALEX GIANNATTASIO
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
ERIC LARSON
Assessing Accelerators and Bottlenecks to
Green Hydrogen Development in the Context of
Chile’s National Green Hydrogen Strategy
NOA GREENSPAN
ENG [C]
ADVISER:
ALLISON CARRUTH
Environmental Storytelling with
Princeton’s Blue Lab:
Home and Change in Coastal Virginia
TREY HENDRIX*
EEB [A]
No Country for Old Wrens
ADVISER:
CHRISTINA RIEHL
ALISON HIRSCH
ART [F]
ADVISER:
RACHAEL DELUE
Monsanto as Image Maker:
Feeding the World Lies
CHAYA HOLCH
HIS [A]
ADVISER:
ANTHONY GRAFTON
Drowned and Drained:
A History of the Early Modern English Fens
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ANNIKA HSI
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
DANIEL RUBENSTEIN
Understanding the Differences in How Plains
and Grevy’s Zebras Interact with Cattle
MARY CATE
HYDE
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
DAVID WILCOVE
Investigating Wildfire as a Driver of Large
Mammal Habitat Use in a Mediterranean-type
Ecosystem
HANK INGHAM
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
SARAH KOCHER
Examining Juvenile Hormone’s Effects on
Halictid Ovaries and Dufour’s Glands
NAOMI INTRATOR*
GEO [B]
ADVISER:
BESS WARD
Nitrous Oxide Reductase gene (nosZ)
Phylogeny and Biogeography
ANNA JACOBSON*
QCB [B]
ADVISERS:
SIMON LEVIN;
STEPHEN PACALA
Exploring the Impact of Decreased
Spatial Abstraction on Policy Guidance of
Energy Systems Models of the Continental
United States
ESHA JAIN
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
DOUGLAS MASSEY
A Case Study of Mumbai:
Preparing the City for Incoming Migration and
Climate Change
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CATHERINE KEIM
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
CORINA TARNITA
Using Coat Patterns to Identify Individual
African Civets (Civettictis civetta) and
Analyze Image ID Algorithm Accuracy
HOJOON KIM
CBE [E]
ADVISER:
MICHELE SARAZEN
Catalytic Upcycling of Plastic Waste on
Faujasite (FAU)-Type Zeolites
MICHAEL KIM
EEB [B]
ADVISERS:
MARY CASWELL
(CASSIE) STODDARD;
KATRINE IKEN
Effects of Glacial Discharge on Northern
Rockweed in the Gulf of Alaska
PHIA KIM-BROOKES
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
DANIEL RUBENSTEIN
The Effect of Herding Practices and Lifestyle
Choices on Child Health in Pastoralist Kenya
HENRY KOFFLER
ORFE [C]
ADVISER:
DANIEL
SCHEINERMAN
A Pricing Analysis of European
“Cap and Trade” Carbon Futures
KATIE KOPP
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
BRYAN GRENFELL
Sexual Age-Mixing Patterns and HIV
Transmission in Rural Uganda
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CARLI KOVEL*
CHM [G]
ADVISER:
PAUL CHIRIK
Accessing Chemically Recyclable Materials
Through Sustainable Catalysis:
Pyridine(diimine) Iron Alkyl Complexes as
Precatalysts for [2+2] Cycloaddition
CHIRAG KUMAR
CHM [D]
ADVISER:
RAMANAN
LAXMINARAYAN
What Climate Change Means for Candida auris:
An Analysis of Environment and a
Drug-Resistant Pathogen
MISHA KUMMEL
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
SIMON LEVIN
Modeling Intraspecific Root Grafting in Trees:
A Theoretical Perspective on Predicting the
Frequency and Effects of Root Grafting
JUJU LANE
REL [C]
ADVISER:
SETH PERRY
The Pagan Project:
Reclaiming Heritage, Healing, and
Environmental Sovereignty in Ireland
LUCIANO (LUCA)
LAZZARETTO
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
MARY CASWELL
(CASSIE) STODDARD
The Generational Hangover:
The Epigenetic Consequences of Adolescent
Opioid Abuse
REED LEVENTIS
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
ANDREW DOBSON
Interactions Between and Species
Characteristics of Nemabiome and
Microbiome in Large Herbivores
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Lower Level
Taylor Auditorium
[D]
[F]
[G]
[E]
Hallway
RR
RR
Ground Level
[A]
North Entrance
[C]
[B]
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Biodiversity and Conservation ..................... [A]
Climate and Environmental Science. ................ [B]
Environmental Policy and Society .................. [C]
Health and Disease. .............................. [D]
New Energy Future. .............................. [E]
Urban Planning and Sustainable Communities........ [F]
Water and the Environment. ....................... [G]
[A]
[C]
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AMELIA LIU
CHM [E]
ADVISER:
PAUL CHIRIK
Developing Quinoline Pyridine(Imine) Iron
Catalysts for Upgrading Hydrocarbon
Feedstocks
SAMANTHA
LOPEZ-RICO
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ANDREW DOBSON
Caste Abundance of Philophthalmus sp. in
Cerithium stercusmuscarum
MELINA MAHOOD
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
GREGORY JACZKO
Wrangling the Wild West:
An Analysis of the Wild Horse and Burro
Program in the United States
ANEESHA MANOCHA
ECE [E]
ADVISER:
JESSE JENKINS
Evaluating the Role of Co-Located Energy
Storage in a Decarbonized Future
ANDREW MATOS
ENG [C]
ADVISER:
SUSAN WOLFSON
Uniting Labor and Environment in
William Morris’s The Earthly Paradise
MARISSA MEJIA
PSY [C]
ADVISER:
BETSY LEVY PALUCK
The Caged Bird Sings of Freedom:
Using Social Norm Psychology to Counter
Wild Songbird Trade in Viet Nam
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FAITH MOORE
ECO [E]
ADVISER:
LIN PENG
The Effect of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation
on United States and the European Renewable
Energy Stock Markets
MARIA CAROLINA MUNIZ*
CBE [G]
ADVISERS:
ATHANASSIOS
PANAGIOTOPOULOS;
ROBERTO CAR
Bubble Nucleation Studies of Water With a
Deep Neural Network Model
CAM MY NGUYEN
ARC [F]
ADVISER:
PAUL LEWIS
Designing for Deconstruction:
Architectural Implications of Impermanence
SHIGETATSU
NISHIGAI
EEB [C]
ADVISER:
SIMON LEVIN
Diversity-Stability Relationship in Artificial
Financial Market
RACHEL QING PANG
PHY [B]
ADVISER:
LAURE RESPLANDY
Physical Controls of Coastal Hypoxia
in the Indian Ocean Dipole
JANICE PARK
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
LINDY MCBRIDE
Sebum Production as a Possible Indicator of
Host Odor Preference in Aedes Aegypti
Mosquitoes
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KARLA PEREZ-GAZCA
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
C. JESSICA METCALF
Temporality of Gut Microbial Communities:
Critical Windows Across Species
MAGDALENA POOST
ANT [C]
ADVISER:
BRIAN HERRERA
I Made This for You:
Shared Meals as Sites of Memory, Care,
Climate Change, and Resistance
LUCAS E. A. PRATES*
ANT [C]
ADVISER:
JOÃO BIEHL
Profiting from the Rainforest:
Conservation Initiatives Among Amazonian
Settler Elites
CHLOE RAICHLE
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
SHANE
CAMPBELL-STATON
Evolution in the Anthropocene:
Adaptation to Thermal Extremes in A.
cristatellus and A. carolinensis
ELENA REMEZ
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
DAVID WILCOVE
Reigniting the Good Fire:
Using Indigenous Networks and NGOs to
Enhance Government to Government Work on
Prescribed Burning for Reducing Wildfire Risk
SOPHIA RICHTER
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ANDREW DOBSON
The Highs and Lows of Grazing:
Effects of Ungulates and Elevation on
Vegetation Composition in Yellowstone
National Park
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ANNIE ROBINSON
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ANDREA GRAHAM
Take a Walk on the (Re)Wild Side:
Feeding Behavior and Immunity in
Rewilded Mice
ISABEL RODRIGUES
GEO [G]
ADVISER:
JOHN HIGGINS
A Minimally-Invasive, On-Site Identification
Method for Lead-Lined Water Service Lines:
A Case Study From Trenton, New Jersey
YEONGJUN RYU*
GEO [B]
ADVISER:
DANIEL SIGMAN
Ammonium (NH 4
+) Nitrogen Isotope
Measurement in Nutrient-Poor Ocean Waters
MOLLY SAUTER
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
BRYAN GRENFELL
Shedding Light on Influenza:
Viral Kinetics, Transmission Dynamics, and
Antibody Titers of Seasonal Influenza in Two
South African Community Cohorts (PHIRST)
JEREMY SCHNEIDER*
HOS [A]
ADVISER:
ANTHONY GRAFTON
Ancient Oceans in Modern Art:
The Case of Ammonites
MICHAEL SCHWOERER*
MOL [B]
ADVISER:
ALEXANDER PLOSS
Climate Change and Viral Hepatitis:
Policy Proposals to Mitigate the Spread
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LIAM SEELEY
SPO [A]
ADVISER:
RACHEL PRICE
Vegetal Cartographies:
Breathing, Dreaming, and Weaving
Visuality in Colonial Modernity
BOBBY SHELL
SPIA [C]
ADVISER:
TIMOTHY SEARCHINGER
California’s Compliance Offset Protocols:
An Uncertain Future for Forestry
Offset Projects
XINYI SHEN*
CEE [G]
ADVISER:
IAN BOURG
All-Atom and Coarse-Grained Molecular
Dynamics Simulations of the Colloidal
Interaction Between Charged Clay Particles
in Water
JOANNA SHOUBAKI
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
SARAH KOCHER
Chemical Signatures of Reproduction and
Nestmate Identity in the Socially Flexible
Sweat Bee, Lasiglossum baleicum
RIYA SINGH
SPIA [F]
ADVISER:
DOUGLAS MASSEY
Environmental “Goods” and “Bads”:
Understanding Green Infrastructure in
NYCHA Public Housing
LIANA SLOMKA
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
ROB PRINGLE
The Plot Thickens:
Effects of Large Herbivore Exclusion on
Understory Community Composition in an
East African Savanna
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ADIRA SMIRNOV
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
LINDY MCBRIDE
Mechanisms of Reproductive Inhibition in
Male Spiny Mice Exposed to Low-Level
Artificial Light at Night
MEGAN SPECHT
EEB [F]
ADVISER:
CORINA TARNITA
First Impressions Matter:
A New Behavioral Strategy to Show the
Evolution of Cooperation in Everyday Trade in
Ancient Pompeii and Viking Age Scandinavia
EMILY WEI-HSIN
SUN*
CEE [G]
ADVISER:
IAN BOURG
Impact of Organic Solutes on Capillary
Phenomena in Water-CO 2
-Quartz Systems
MANAR TALAB
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
LARS HEDIN
A New Coastal Restoration Paradigm:
Using Hard Clams to Restore Seagrass in
North Carolina
JULIE TIERNEY*
EEB [B]
ADVISER:
LARS HEDIN
Can Nitrogen Losses Cause a Dramatic Shift in
Amazonian Forests?
ANAGAM UDEBIUWA
EEB [A]
ADVISERS:
LINDY MCBRIDE;
NOAH ROSE
Scaling Value as a Potential Morphological
Proxy for Biting Behavior in A. Aegypti
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CAMILLE VANDERMEER
ECO [C]
ADVISER:
STEPHEN REDDING
Rising Tides and Fears:
Flood Risk Perceptions in New Jersey Before
and After Hurricane Sandy
SAM VASEN
EEB [A]
ADVISER:
CHRISTINA RIEHL
The Effects of Understory Vegetation on
Carolina Wren Abundance
VIAN WAGATSUMA
EEB [D]
ADVISER:
BRYAN GRENFELL
Modeling the Effects of Air Conditioning on the
Transmisison of RSV in Miami, Florida and
Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
ABIGAIL G. WILLIAMS
EEB [B]
ADVISER:
CHRISTINA RIEHL
Deep-Sea Marine Pedagogy:
Teaching Methodology and Module Planning
ISAAC WILLS
HIS [C]
ADVISER:
MICHAEL LAFFAN
Reshaping the Capetonian Landscape:
The Making of Muslim Graves, 1883-1886
LOIS WU
ANT [C]
ADVISER:
BETH SEMEL
Cricket Farming’s Capitalist Emergence:
Care, Scale, and Moral Imaginaries in a New
Industry of Food Production
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KARENA YAN
ORFE [C]
ADVISER:
MIKLOS RACZ
Equity, Mobility, and Sustainability:
Analyzing Geographic and Demographic
Disparities in Urban Bikeability
EINARA ZAHN
CEE [B]
ADVISER:
ELIE BOU-ZEID
Relaxed Eddy Accumulation Outperforms
Monin-Obukhov Flux Models Under Non-Ideal
Conditions
AIDAN ZENTNER
PHY [E]
ADVISER:
PAUL STEINHARDT
Hyperuniformity and Photonic Band Gaps
in Solids With Bond-Orientational Order
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University advances understanding of the Earth as a complex system
influenced by human activities and informs solutions to local and
global challenges by conducting groundbreaking research across
disciplines and by preparing future leaders in diverse fields to impact
a world increasingly shaped by climate change.
HMEI functions as a vibrant central resource for faculty, postdocs,
students, alumni, and others with an interest in environmental topics
and research. More than 140 members of the Princeton faculty,
representing 30 academic disciplines, are active with HMEI and
contribute to the teaching of scientific, technical, policy, and human
dimensions of environmental issues.
HMEI serves as a center for environmental education, ideas, and
dialogue through robust undergraduate and graduate teaching and
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events addressing a range of environmental topics.
Since its inception, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
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EEB, and theory and empiricism guides it. Faculty, postdoctoral
researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students engage in
innovative research that explores some of the most urgent societal
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The department fosters a culture of intellectual openness, collegiality
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SUPPORT FOR
INDEPENDENT
FIELD-RESEARCH
PROJECTS AND
HMEI GRADUATE
FELLOWSHIPS HAS
BEEN GENEROUSLY
PROVIDED BY
THE FOLLOWING
FRIENDS:
The Barron Family Fund for Innovations in
Environmental Studies
John Bonner Senior Thesis Fund
Becky Colvin ’95 Memorial Research Fund
The Charles W. H. Dodge ’51 Fund
Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Senior Thesis Fund in
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
William Clay Ford, Jr. ’79 and Lisa Vanderzee
Ford ’82 Graduate Fellowship Fund
Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Award for Water
and the Environment
H. Hamilton Hackney ’53 Senior Thesis
Research Fund
Edmund Hayes, Sr. ’18 Fund
The High Meadows Environmental Institute
Fund
Leslie K. Johnson Senior Thesis Fund
William N. Kelley ’40 and William N. Kelley ’66
Graduate Fellowship Fund
Mountain Lake Field Research Fund
Newton Family HMEI Scholars Fund
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SUPPORT FOR
INDEPENDENT
FIELD-RESEARCH
PROJECTS AND
HMEI GRADUATE
FELLOWSHIPS HAS
BEEN GENEROUSLY
PROVIDED BY
THE FOLLOWING
FRIENDS:
Thomas Jefferson Perkins Class of 1894
Graduate Fellowship Fund
Porter ’52 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Fund
Bob and Cathy Solomon Undergraduate
Research Fund
Walbridge Fund
John H. T. Wilson ’56 and Sandra W. Wilson
Fund
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Notes
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on recycled post-consumer fiber paper.

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