EEB's Micah Unruh receives prestigious dissertation award
Micah Unruh, a doctoral candidate in ecology & evolutionary biology, has received the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award. Unruh received $41,000 and will use the award to conduct research on soil carbon storage in South America. Beginning in January, Unruh will travel to Chile to collect soil samples near the base of the Llaima Volcano in Conguillio National Park, which is 400 miles south of Santiago. This unique soil spans different time periods but was formed with the same volcanic material under the same climatic conditions.