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Miss Alex C Gilman
University of California, Los Angeles Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 621 Charles E. Young Drive South Box 951305, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1305 (310) 825-8777 alexgil@ucla.edu
EducationSeptember 2001 – present Graduate student, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Degree path: Ph.D. Advanced to Candidacy December 2003
July 2000 B.Sc., University of Leicester, England 1st Class Honors Department of Geography
EmploymentSeptember 2001 – PresentTeaching Assistant Consultant, University of California, Los Angeles Course: Physiological Sciences 495: Graduate student “TA practicum in Teaching” (three quarters)
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles Courses: EEB 122: Ecology (1 quarter) Life Science 1: Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity (5 quarters) Life Science 15: Concepts and Issues in Biology (1 quarter)
June 2000 – August 2001 Scientific Officer, Blaby District Council, Leicester, England A fourteen month contract in the Environmental Health Division of local government as the inhouse Air Quality and Contaminated Land Specialist
June 2000 – September 2000 Summer Weekend Warden, English Nature, Suffolk, England Warden at Cavenham Heath National Nature Reserve which lies in the Breckland Specially Protected Area (SPA)
February 1995 – October 1996 Overseas travelling experience Department Teaching CommendationsWinter 2003: TA, Life Science 1: Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity Spring 2002: TA, Life Science 15: Concepts and Issues in Biology
Research ExperienceDecember 2003 - present Ph.D. research in Nacional Parque Braulio Carrillo, on understory plant diversity across environmental gradients and species responses to climate change. Floristic surveys, specimen collection, species propagation and physiological determinations of extreme temperature tolerances in species of Psychotria (Rubiaceae).
July 2003 – September 2003 La Selva Biological Station and Nacional Parque Braulio Carrillo Pilot investigation of site for Ph.D. thesis and the commencement of a vegetative propagation experiment.
July 2002 – September 2002 Khao Yai National Park, Thailand Summer research trip investigating potential research locations and establishing relationships with existing researchers and acquiring historical data from government agencies
January 2002 – March 2002 Organization of Tropical Studies, Tropical Biology Course, Costa Rica This course required the constant testing of a wide variety of biological hypotheses in the field, both individually and in small groups, planning methodologies, data collection and analysis and report writing.
June 1999 – August 1999 Parque Nacional Carrasco, Bolivia Undergraduate thesis research investigating the spatial variability in fruiting patterns and yields over an elevational gradient
Fellowships and Support: attainedUCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Writing Up Fellowship 2005/2006 ($17,000) GWIS Elloise Gerry research fellowship 2005 ($4,000) Latin American Center, Small research grant, UCLA; 2005 ($2,000) Organization of Tropical Studies Research Fellowship 2005/2006 ($2,995) Vavra Plant Systematics Fellowship, EEB Dept, UCLA; Spring Qtr 2005 Quality in Graduate Education Award, Graduate Division, UCLA; Winter Qtr 2005 Conference attendance grants, Vavra Plant Systematics Fellowship; 2004 Conference attendance grant, British Ecological Society, UK; 2004 Quarter of support award; Graduate Division, UCLA; Spring Qtr 2004 Vavra Plant Systematics Fellowship; Winter Qtr 2004 Explorers Club; 2004 ($1,100) Sigma Xi; 2004 ($680) Latin American Center, Small research grant, UCLA; 2003 ($500) Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, UCLA; 2001 – 2006 Pacific Rim Research Mini-grant, University of California; 2002 ($3,000) Vavra Plant Systematics Stipend, UCLA; Winter Qtr 2002 Organization of Tropical Studies Tuition Fellowship; Winter 2002 Conferences and symposia attended (including presentations)2005: Ecological Society of America in Montreal – Poster presented “Global Warming – Species Survival or Extinction? A montane tropical forest case study”. British Ecological Society Annual meeting in Hatfield, UK
2004: Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual meeting in Miami – Poster presented “Tropical plant diversity and species altitudinal range across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica” British Ecological Society Annual meeting in Lancaster, UK – Poster Presented “Elevational patterns in altitudinal range and species diversity: A tropical case study.” Missouri Botanical Garden Annual Systematics Symposium in St Louis
2003: Joint meeting between the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation and the British Ecological Society, in Aberdeen, UK Committees and Organizations (last 4 years)Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation British Ecological Society Ecological Society of America Graduate Women in Science Sierra Club, Los Angeles Chapter The International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) World Wildlife Fund
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