Carleton Library, the Graduate Student Association (GSA), and the Office of the Vice President (Research & International) (OVPRI) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2014-2015 Graduate Student Open Access Award. These monetary awards of $1000.00 were established to support Carleton University graduate students in publishing research in open access journals.
Danielle Fraser, PhD Candidate, Biology
- “Mean Annual Precipitation Explains Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cenozoic Mammal Beta Diversity and Latitudinal Diversity Gradients in North America” from (2014) PLoS ONE 9(9).
Danielle Fraser is in the final stages of completing her PhD in the Biology Department at Carleton University. She received both her BSc in Zoology and MSc in Biology from the University of Calgary. She is an evolutionary biologist studying patterns of speciation and extinction as well as large-scale patterns of diversity in terrestrial vertebrates. Her research goals are to i) establish modes of biodiversity change through time and space and ii) to establish the long-term evolutionary and climatic drivers of those biodiversity changes. Danielle has accepted a post-doctoral position at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History starting in September 2015 where she will continue her research on the impacts of climate change on mammal communities.
Other winners can be seen here.
Congratulations Danielle!