To recognize the Yolo Basin Foundation’s 25th anniversary in 2015 and to honor its founder Robin Kulakow, the Kulakow-Julian Family established the “Yolo Basin Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship Fund.” The gift provided support for selected graduate students who are working in the areas of environmental education, public use, environmental sciences, or environmental/conservation policy related to the 16,800-acre Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area or the 60,000-acre Yolo Bypass. The Fellowship included an annual stipend, as well as mentoring, for the student’s research.

Rebekah Bergkoetter, MS, CSUS

Morphological and behavior differences among daphnia from vernal and permanent ponds in relation to UVB exposure

Myfanwy Johnston, MS, UCD

Determining chinook salmon passage at Lisbon Weir: a paired camera approach

Sarah Stinson, PhD, UCD

Genetic techniques enhance biodiversity monitoring in the Yolo Bypass

Jennifer Harfmann, PhD, UCD

Linking riverine exports from Yolo Bypass inundations to the Delta food web

Miranda Bell, MS, UCD

Isotope tools to track floodplain rearing of native fishes

Paige Mundy, PhD, UCD

Illuminating estrogenic effects in fish: Determining seasonal estrogenicity and water quality in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area

Leila Harris, PhD, UCD

Establish a long-term, citizen-science population monitoring program for the Yolo Causeway Bats: Phase 1 in evaluating the pest-control services of the largest colony of Mexican free-tailed bats in Central California

Ann Holmes, PhD, UCD

Non-invasive analysis of bat diets in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area using DNA

Melissa Bolotaiolo, PhD, UCD

Evaluation of environmental health through quantification of cyanotoxins and toxic cyanobacteria in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area

Rachelle Tallman, MS, UCD

Does “wilding” juvenile chinook salmon on agriculture floodplains boost survivorship in California’s Central Valley?

Ann Holmes, PhD, UCD

Non-invasive analysis of bat diets in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area using DNA

Leila Harris, PhD, UCD

Tracking bat ecology in time and space. Phase II in assessing population, health and ecosystem services of the Yolo Basin bats

Mattea Berglund, PhD, UCD

Using microbiomes to explore benefits of floodplain habitat for salmon on health

Junna Wang, PhD, UCD

What supports aquatic food webs in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area: autotrophic production or terrestrial detritus

Clancy McConnel, PhD, UCD

The geography of Putah Creek: modeling riparian dynamics and restoration outcomes on a regulated river

Mackenzie Miner, MS, UCD

Is reestablishment possible? Chinook salmon reconciliation ecology in Putah Creek and the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area

Stephen Gergeni, MC, CSUS

Population distribution and habitat assessment for the state and federally threatened giant garter snake and the state species of conservation concern western pond turtle in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area

Brian Lee, PhD, UCSB

Quantifying foraging behavior and ecosystem service provision of bats in California agriculture

Stephen Gergeni, MS, CSUS

Phase 2; Population and habitat assessment for threatened giant garter snake and the state species of conservation concern western pond turtle

Sara Olstad Rahimi, MS, UCD

Evaluation of YBF Discover the Flyway school program

Nicole Rodrigues, PhD, UCD

Effects of wildfire-derived contaminants on behavior and development of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area mosquito culex tarsalis

Lauren Hitt, PhD, UCD

Leveraging water quality data to promote chinook salmon migration survival in lower Putah Creek and the Yolo Bypass