
View Flash Intro (~43 seconds) Trish Miller, Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology, received the William C. Andersen Memorial Award for the best student oral presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation in Duluth, MN. The title of her paper, presented on October 8, was "Striking a balance: Modeling Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) migration through wind energy developments in the central Appalachian Mountains, USA." Trish is co-advised by Robert P. Brooks (Penn State) and Todd Katzner (West Virginia University).
Abbey Tyrna, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, received a Society of Woman Geographers' National Fellowship for spring semester 2012, providing stipend, tuition, and travel funds. This will help to support her research on understanding networks of hydrologically-based ecosystem services in the Shavers Creek Watershed. Abbey is advised by Robert P. Brooks.