Kohlberg-Donohoe Fellows
2024 Recipients
Logan Billet, PhD candidate — Exploring the causes and consequences of ranavirus epidemics in a wood frog metapopulation experiencing recurring mass mortality events
Michael Culbertson, PhD student — Understanding forest soil organic carbon: scales and causal mechanisms
Jonathan Gewirtzman, PhD student — Probing the forest methane cycle with synoptic sampling, sensor development, and microbiome analysis
Jack Hatajik, MESc student — The Impacts of Emerald Ash Borer Invasion on Ecosystem Structure and Function
Janey Lienau, PhD student — Belowground soil communities impact on forest regeneration
2023 Recipients
Shaylyn Austin, MF student — Understanding Forest Landowner Values Within and Surrounding Yale-Myers Forest
Logan Billet, PhD candidate — Exploring the causes and consequences of ranavirus epidemics in a wood frog metapopulation experiencing recurring mass mortality events
Michael Culbertson, MFS student — Applying measurement theory to estimate forest management effects on soil organic carbon
Jonathan Gewirtzman, PhD student — Probing the forest methane cycle with synoptic sampling, sensor development, and microbiome analysis
Samantha Tracy, PhD student — Corticosteroid and thyroid hormone as biochemical markers of temperature induced stress in Rana sylvatica
2022 Recipients
Logan Billet, PhD student — Exploring the causes and consequences of ranavirus epidemics in a wood frog metapopulation experiencing recurring mass mortality events
Jonathan Gewirtzman, PhD student — Measuring methane emissions from tree stems
Janey Lienau, MESc student — Ground beetle nitrogen cycling in eastern temperate forests
Alexander Polussa, PhD student — The effects of co-occurring mycorrhizal functional types on the distribution of fungal functional groups in the soil profile
Brandon Sanchez, MESc student — Testing tail muscle performance of larval wood frogs (Rana sylvatica)
2021 Recipients
Yara Alshwairikh, PhD student — Fine-scale Liver Transcriptome Profile of the Freeze-thaw Process in Wood Frogs
Logan Billet, PhD student — Exploring the causes and consequences of ranavirus epidemics in a wood frog metapopulation experiencing recurring mass mortality events
Kristy Ferraro, PhD candidate, Eli Ward, PhD candidate, and Les Welker, Yale College ‘22 — Quantifying nutrient input from white tailed deer calving sites
Jonathan Gewirtzman, PhD student — Identifying patterns and processes of tree stem methane flux at Yale-Myers Forest
Alexander Polussa, PhD student — Litterfall phenology effects on microbial community assembly and function
2020 Recipients
Dahn-Young Dong, MESc 2021 — Using Microgeographic Gene Flow and Genetic Drift Facilitated by Forest Landscape Parameters to Predict the Genetic Structures of Rana Sylvatica (Wood Frog) populations at Yale Myers Forest.
Nathalie Sommer, PhD student — Linking functional forms of phenotypic plasticity to ecosystem stoichiometry
Eli Ward, PhD candidate — Towards a mechanistic understanding of the relationships between disturbance, plant invasions, and soil nutrient availability in managed hardwood forests
2019 Recipients
Paige Johnson, Yale College 2020
2018 Recipients
Nathalie Sommer, MESc F&ES 2019
2017 Recipients
A. Andis, PhD candidate , Illuminating eco-evolutionary dynamics through landscape genomics powered by RAD-capture
Robert Buchkowski, PhD candidate , Impacts of detritivores and herbivores on nitrogen cycling
Adam Houston, Yale College 2018, Food Web Dynamics in Old Fields
Kyra Prats, PhD candidate , Photosynthetic and chloroplast distribution dynamics in a wintergreen fern
Jessica Wikle, MFS candidate 2018 , Tree Regeneration Patterns Following Irregular Shelterwood Harvests over 20 Years