ࡱ> VYU_ 4bjbjzyzy *Z6b6b,58PDT'p'r'r'r'r'r'r'$)S,'''f"f"f"p'f"p'f"f":x&,'@!*r& \''0'&R, ,','\VEf"9''!',B :  APPLICATION COVER PAGE EDNA BAILEY SUSSMAN FUND Applicants name: Craig See Date: January 25, 2012 Address: 516 Allen St. ESF program: Graduate Program Floor 2 in Environmental Syracuse, NY 13210 Science Telephone number: 612-845-8154 Faculty sponsor: Ruth Yanai Email: crsee@syr.edu Internship organization and address: The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Route 44) Millbrook, NY 12545 Internship objectives: To quantify the differences in total soil nitrogen, available nitrate, and nitrification rates between residential lawns and forested areas in northern New Hampshire. To quantify the effect of past land use (agriculture or logging) on current soil nitrogen, available nitrate, and nitrification rates in residential lawns. Period of work: May 21, 2012 through August 24, 2012 (14 weeks) Salary provided by organization: none Amount requested from Sussman fund: $6,370.00 Faculty sponsor Applicant ______________________________ ______________________________ (signature) (signature) Fertilization practices and the combustion of fossil fuels have more than doubled the amount of nitrogen available in the biosphere. Nitrate is easily leached into waterways, and has led to dead zones in marine fisheries and blue baby syndrome in many agricultural towns. The expansion of suburbs and exurbs has made residential lawns one of the fastest growing land uses in the country. Recent evidence from the Baltimore area suggests that lawns on abandoned agricultural land sequester nitrogen at a faster rate than lawns on previously forested lands, but have higher concentrations of nitrate and higher rates of nitrification (the microbial process which produces nitrate). Urban ecology studies to date have centered primarily on major metropolitan areas, with less attention on residential development in rural areas. A better understanding of the effects of historic land use and current development practices in a variety of settings will be crucial to both future nitrate pollution projections and policy recommendations for land development. With funding from the Edna B. Sussman foundation, I propose to investigate the effects of land use (past and present) on nitrate production and nitrogen accumulation in residential lawns in northern New Hampshire. This project will be completed as an internship with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. The objectives of this study will be: 1. To quantify the differences in total soil nitrogen, available nitrate, and nitrification rates between residential lawns and forested areas in northern New Hampshire. 2. To quantify the effect of past land use (agriculture or logging) on current soil nitrogen, available nitrate, and nitrification rates in residential lawns. My residential study sites will be paired with forested sites at Hubbard Brook, Jeffers Brook, and Bartlett Experimental Forests, which already have extensive data on nitrogen availability and cycling. I will use public records, past aerial photographs of the region, and data from past land-use studies to determine the land-use history of my sites. I will install and collect resinous strips in the soil to measure available nitrate. Soil samples taken from the study sites will be incubated in the laboratory to determine rates of nitrate production and total nitrogen content per unit mass. Results from these same techniques are available to me from the nearby experimental forests, making it possible to accomplish this ambitious comparison of residential and forested sites in only one summer. My internship with the Cary Institute will be overseen by Dr. Peter Groffman, the nitrogen-flux expert for the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and for Hubbard Brook. Dr. Groffman will assist with experimental design and will supervise the execution of the experiment through email, telephone contact, and in-person meetings. Along with contributing to the nascent field of suburban ecology, this work will likely lead to publication in a peer-reviewed journal and may contribute to my thesis at SUNY ESF. Results will be presented at the annual Hubbard Brook Cooperators Meeting. All written and oral presentation of this research will acknowledge the support of the Edna B. Sussman Foundation. BUDGET JUSTIFICATION The proposed internship will begin Monday, May 21, 2012 and end Friday, August 24, 2012. I will work 35 hours per week for the entire 14 week duration. I am requesting a salary of $13 per hour. $13.00/hour x 35 hours/week x 14 weeks = $6,370.00 Total Funds Requested: $6,370.00 Craig See 516 Allen Street Apt. 2 Syracuse, NY 13210 612-845-8154 HYPERLINK "mailto:crsee@syr.edu"crsee@syr.edu EDUCATION State University of New York 2011 vlog of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY Master of Science (in progress) Area of Study: Environmental Systems and Risk Management GPA: 4.0 Hamline University, St. Paul, MN 2009 Bachelor of Arts Area of Study: Biology GPA: 3.7 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 2007 Attended as a study abroad program through Hamline University Area of Study: Biology AWARDS/HONOR SOCIETIES Graduated Cum Laude, Hamline University 2009 Presidential Fellowship, Hamline University 2006-2008 Most Distinguished First Year Biology Student (faculty 2007 selected award) Hamline University Honors Day Member Beta Beta Beta Biological Honors Society 2007-2009 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE vlog 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant Duties: Teach General Chemistry II laboratory sections vlog 2011 (Ruth Yanai Lab) Research Assistant Duties: Assist with design and implementation of a large scale fertilization experiment in the White Mountains, manage schedule of large field crew working on multiple aspects of the project, train technicians in field and lab techniques, data management, coordinate with PIs, vendors, etc University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 2011 (Lynn Adler Lab) Project Manager Duties: Technician oversight and training, data collection, fieldwork planning, data management and quality control. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2010 Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve Intern Duties: maintain vegetation plots, construct scaffolding, take soil C02 flux measurements, conduct vegetation surveys, database maintenance, assist with prescribed burns, vegetation sampling, biomass sorting and weighing, small mammal trapping, develope an independent research project University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2010 (David Mladenoff Lab) Research Technician Duties: take soil and wood respiration measurements, laser mapping forest plots using PDA (ArcPad), vegetation surveys, take moisture/temperature readings of soil and CWD, install resin probes, maintain deer exclosures, install C02 flux collars Dartmouth vlog, Hanover, NH 2010 (Rebecca Irwin Lab) Field Technician Duties: locate old and new Gelsemium sempervirens plants, map field sites, take flower measurements, trap and preserve pollinators, take soil samples, emasculate flowers, collect stigmas Duke University, Durham, NC 2009 (Jim Clark Lab) Research Technician Duties: conduct vegetation surveys, build animal exclosures, take TDR measurements, core trees/analyzing cores, take canopy photos, collect and sort seeds, construct warming chambers, wire thermistors, data entry, data management RESEARCH EXPERIENCE University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN Ecosystem Ecology 2010 Assisted Jennifer Powers (UMN) on a project exploring the effects of biodiversity and increased temperature on below-ground respiration in grassland systems. Cedar Creek LTER, East Bethel, MN Pollination Biology 2010 Investigated an evolutionary shift in pollination strategy in the sedge Eriophorum virginicum Cedar Creek LTER, East Bethel, MN Mycology 2010 Investigated the effect of plant community diversity on fungal migration and diversity Hamline University, St. Paul, MN Animal Behavior 2008 Designed and executed an experiment examining conditional foraging strategies in wolf spiders (Lycosidae) Hamline University, St. Paul, MN Animal Behavior 2007 Designed and executed an experiment examining the possibility of chemical signaling (alarm cues) in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. Duties included animal care PRESENTATIONS New York Society of American Foresters Winter Meeting, Syracuse, NY January 26, 2012 See, C.R., R.D. Yanai, and B.A. Quintero. Nitrogen and phosphorus resorption efficiency ratios vary with stand age in northern hardwood forests. (Poster Presentation) Rochester Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY October 29, 2011 See, C.R., R.D. Yanai, and B.A. Quintero. Nitrogen and phosphorus resorption efficiency ratios vary with stand age in northern hardwood forests. (Poster Presentation) Hubbard Brook Cooperators Meeting, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH July 5-6, 2011 See, C.R., R.D. Yanai, and B.A. Quintero. Young and old stands differ in N vs. P resorption from leaves, consistent with MEL model predictions. (Oral Presentation) Cedar Creek LTER Intern Presentation Session, East Bethel, MN August 11, 2010 Plant biodiversity affects on airborne fungal migration rates in a prairie ecosystem. (Oral Presentation)     Craig See  PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 4 35FGPQSXikst   s z | " # $ > ? 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