[OldNorth] Fwd: UC Davis News: student honors

[John Lofland]

I forward an excerpt from press release put out by UCD today, the 
part reporting on our recent neighbor Caz Taylor, spouse of  Z Smith.

John

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>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:35:52 -0700
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>August 26, 2005
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>UC DAVIS YOUNG ECOLOGISTS HONORED
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>Two recent UC Davis doctoral graduates have been honored for their
>publications on environmental science topics.
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>Postdoctoral researcher Caz Taylor was awarded the Southwood Prize by
>the British Ecological Society for the best paper published in 2004
>in the society's Journal of Applied Ecology. Taylor's winning paper,
>part of her doctoral dissertation, was "Finding optimal control
>strategies for invasive species: a density-structured model for
>Spartina alterniflora."
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>Taylor compared the cost and effectiveness of various methods of
>eradicating Spartina, an invasive grass that is damaging estuaries
>along the coasts of Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
>Taylor's co-author was her faculty adviser, Alan Hastings, UC Davis
>professor of environmental science and policy, who recently was
>elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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>Taylor has been awarded a highly competitive NSF Biological
>Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship and is continuing her
>postdoctoral work at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She is
>developing individual-based models of migratory seabirds.
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