Kohlberg-Donohoe Fellows

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

Kaija Gahm, Yale College 2020

Paige Johnson, Yale College 2020

Ella Schmidt, MESc  2020

Eli Ward, PhD student 

David Woodbury, PhD student 

2018 Recipients

A. Andis, PhD candidate 

Robert Buchkowski, PhD 2019

Laura Ostrowsky, MFS 2019

Nathalie Sommer, MESc F&ES 2019

Kimi Zamuda, 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