Graduate Students

 

Naomi Bargmann 

        Naomi is an M.Sc. student with UAA's Department of Biological Sciences.  Her research is focused on the use of fatty acids to analyze the diets of seabirds.  Naomi is an employee of the USGS Alaska Science Center and her research is being supported by Dr. Scott Hatch of the USGS.  She was assisted in the summer of 2005 by an undergraduate research student, Charlene laCoursiere, funded by an NSF Alaska EPSCoR (Integrative Physiology RFA) undergraduate research grant. Naomi is currently writing her thesis and expects to graduate later this year (2006).
      Click here to view the poster Naomi presented on her research at the AAAS Arctic division meeting in Kodiak in September 2005.

Peer reviewed publications:

  1. Burns, J.M., Williams, T.M., Secor, S.M., Owen-Smith, N., BARGMANN, N.A., Castellini, M.A. 2006.  New insights into the physiology of foraging.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology79(2): 242-249.

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Kalb Stevenson  

       Kalb is a PhD student attached to both UAA's Department of Biological Sciences and UAF's Department of Biology and Wildlife.  His research is focused on the mechanisms used by non-hibernating rodents to overcome the reproductive challenges that they face in high latitudes.  Kalb graduated with an M.Sc. from the University of Arizona in 2003.  Kalb was awarded an NSF Alaska EPSCoR (integrative physiology) graduate student fellowship to support him and his research in 2004/2005 and for 2005/2006. 
       Click here to view the poster Kalb presented on his research at the AAAS Arctic division meeting in Kodiak in September 2005.
       Click here to view the poster Kalb presented on his research at the IUPS meeting in San Diego in 2005.

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