Dr. Laurel Salton Clark Memorial
Graduate Fellowship Award Recipients

2013-2014

Aaron Olson University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Title: The Mark IV: A Scalable Lunar Miner Prototype Synopsis: The Mark IV (M-4) project will address how current and emerging In-Situ Resource Utilization systems can be integrated into a scalable lunar miner prototype.

2012-2013

Alexis Santos University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Title: Variability of Nutrient Induction on Surface Tracers in the North Atlantic Synopsis: In situ observations and model output will be used with hindcast modeling to determine the mechanism behind variability in physics of nutrient induction on biogeochemistry in the North Atlantic Ocean.

2012-2012

Darren Pilcher University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Title: The Carbon Cycle of Lake Michigan Synopsis: A coupled physical and biological 3-D model will be applied to Lake Michigan to quantify the carbon budget and assess the impacts of invasive Dreissena mussel species and lake acidification.

2010-2011

Shawn Serbin University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Title: Quantifying the variation in light-use efficiency of forest ecosystems   Synopsis: This project utilizes mutli-sensor image data to upscale and quantify light-use efficiency, a key component in remote sensing of terrestrial productivity, based on characteristics of the vegetation.

2009-2010

Paul West University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Title: The Effects of Agricultural Production on Carbon Storage and Water Balance: Quantifying the Global Patterns and Tradeoffs Synopsis: This research uses crop data and ecosystem models to quantify the global patterns of the tradeoffs between the ecosystem services of crop production, water availability, and carbon storage.

2008-2009

David Zaks
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Title: No Free Lunch: Trading Away Ecosystem Services from Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon
Synopsis: This research combines commodity production data, global trade data, and ecosystem models to quantify the embodied resources within agricultural commodities in the Brazilian Amazon and their distribution around the world.

2007-2008

Jonathan Van Dyke
Medical College of Wisconsin
Research Title: Optimizing Stretch for Maximal JNK Activation: A Countermeasure Against Central Corelike Lesion and Muscle Atrophy in Mice
Synopsis: It is my goal to provide the ground work for future studies leading to muscle atrophy prevention in humans by characterizing and optimizing JNK activation in response to varying durations of daily passive stretch in a mouse model.