2004-05 Mills Scholarship Recipients

The Texas Water Resources Institute awarded Mills Scholarships in 2004-05 to the Texas A&M University graduate students listed below.

David Bell, Agricultural Economics
Graduate Advisor: David Leatham
Modeling above and below-ground water systems in Texas in order to fully integrate water as an input in municipal and sectoral economics of Texas
Application  
Matt Berg, Rangeland Ecology and Management
Graduate Advisor: Ben Wu
Wetland restoration and ecology
Application  
Robert Eyeington, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Graduate Advisor: Jim Cathey
Response of amphibians to variation in landscape features and vegetation cover in the Pedernales River Basin
Application  
Lucas Gregory, Rangeland Ecology and Management
Graduate Advisor: Bradford Wilcox
Quantifying the affects of woody plant encroachment in semi-arid landscapes on the total water budget
Application  
David Hoeinghaus, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Graduate Advisor: Kirk Winemiller
Food Web Ecology in the Parana River Basin
Application  
Jeremy Hudgeons, Entomology
Graduate Advisor: Kevin Heinz
Physiological affects of beetle defoliation on saltcedar trees
Application  
Euclides Jasso, Soil and Crop Sciences
Graduate Advisor: Kevin McInnes
Investigation of isotopic fluxes from grassland and woodland sites in the Edwards Plateau of Texas
Application  
Robert Jones, Soil and Crop Sciences
Graduate Advisor: Richard Loeppert
Methylated arsenic species interaction at soils - water interface
Application  
Tara Kneeshaw, Geology and Geophysics
Graduate Advisor: Jennifer McGuire
Understanding the fate and transport of chemicals in subsurface systems
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Leslie McKendrick, Agricultural Education
Graduate Advisor: Gary Briers
Perceptions and attitudes that influence how individuals value water
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Heather Miller, Geology and Geophysics
Graduate Advisor: Bruce Herbert
Water management, soil salinity and landscape ecology in Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
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Nena Phillips, Rangeland Ecology and Management
Graduate Advisor: Stephan Hatch
Effect of habit changes in an near San Antonio Bay and its effect of whooping cranes
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David Rosen, Rangeland Ecology and Management
Graduate Advisor: Stephan Hatch
Taxonomic and ecological study of select members of the subgeus Limnochloa in the sedge genus Elcharis on the middle and lower Texas Coast
Application  
Karen Sell, Geology and Geophysics
Graduate Advisor: Bruce Herbert
The microbial responses to stressors across watershed system boundaries
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Travis Waiser, Soil and Crop Sciences
Graduate Advisor: Christine Morgan
Effectiveness of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy on measuring soil properties in situ - Bosque River Watershed in Erath County
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Jennifer Waters, Horticulture
Graduate Advisor: Stephen King
Introduction of Arabidopis thaliana genes to create drought tolerant watermelons
Application