An incoming graduate student, Lisette Arellano, has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship and an AGEP fellowship through CU! Lisette Arellano will be in Val McKenzie’s lab.
Project title for NSF proposal: Land use and amphibian decline: A closer look at the consequences of monoculture and polyculture for amphibians in agricultural landscapes. Lisette plans to examine amphibians, invertebrate diversity and parasites in different types of agriculture to determine the effects of specific agricultural practices on overall aquatic diversity and food web functioning.
This is the third NSF graduate fellowship this year, our best year ever.
