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    Dr. Laurel Salton Clark Memorial
    Graduate Fellowship Award Recipients

    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.