Robert Slider
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Graduate Student in Biology “I plan to use this experience for a future career in academia.”
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Robert is currently a graduate student pursuing a masters degree in
biology. He graduated from GVSU in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in
biology and has worked in the AEP since the spring of 2007. Robert's
independent project on the insulating properties of tundra vegetation
contributed to the paper "Soil Temperature and Thaw Response to Air Warming Varies with Changing Vegetation"
which was published in the proceedings of the Ninth International
Conference on Permafrost in June of 2008. His main interests are in the
growth and development of tundra plants in response to temperature
variation. Rob has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship and is currently pursuing his degree in education.