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Incoming Doctoral Student Lands Two Fellowships

Alison Whipple joins the Center this fall with two prestigious awards to fund her PhD studies in the Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Group.

Whipple was awarded a Herbert Kraft Fellowship for 2012-2013 and a two-year Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship. IGERT is the National Science Foundation's flagship interdisciplinary training program. The nine-month Kraft fellowship is open to California students entering sciences important to agriculture.

As a trainee with the IGERT in Climate Change, Water and Society at UC Davis, Whipple will participate in coursework, workshops, policy-oriented internships and the annual State of Science and Policy conference. The program brings together graduate students from a variety of disciplines to address the effects of climate change on water resources.

Whipple grew up on a small sheep farm in Potter Valley, headwaters of the Russian River’s East Fork in Mendocino County. “Sheep shearing day was the day I looked forward to most each year growing up,” she said. “The second was the rodeo. The third was haying day.” Welcome, Aggie.

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