Kristen Morrow awarded Dissertation Completion Award
May 8, 2025
Kristen Morrow was awarded the Dissertation Completion Award for the 2025-2026 academic year. This competitive award from the UGA Graduate School provides support to doctoral candidates in the final stages of writing their dissertation. Kristen’s research integrates political ecology and bioacoustic monitoring to understand historic drivers of primate population declines, current primate habitat use in anthropogenic forests, and opportunities for community-led conservation efforts in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Kristen worked with Universitas Gadjah Mada master’s student Ari Nadya Ningtyas and research team members from Tahawa (Pak Tugas and Mas Andri) to discuss participatory mapping of local forest use. Kristen with members of her research team (left to right: Pak Wandy, Mas Indra, Mas Andri, Pak Daharmon, Pak Ketua, Pak Benhard) deploying passive acoustic monitors and recording vegetation data in the Village Forest to detect orangutans, gibbons, and red langurs.Kristen and members of her research team from Tahawa village (Pak Ketua and Pak Wandy) traveling to acoustic sampling sites.
