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LacCore invites applications to its research award program for graduate students working with lake sediment cores. These $1000 grants will support student travel to Minneapolis, lodging while at the facility, and supplies consumed in initial core description (ICD). Funds supplement the low-cost instrument time, staff support, and training offered to all LacCore visitors. The VGS travel grant program is on hiatus in 2012. Check back in early 2013 for the next competition!.
To apply: send (1) a two-page description of the project, including how working at LacCore would forward the project goals, and (2) a letter of support from the graduate advisor, to , by noon Central Standard Time on Friday, April 15, 2011. Applications will be evaluated by Dr. Fritz and the other members of the LacCore External Advisory Group (EAG); award notifications will be made in late May.
Funds are intended to support student travel, core shipping, and initial core description and may not be used to pay for LacCore-related analytical services such as coulometry, stable isotope analysis, scanning XRF, radiocarbon dates, etc., although any of these may be conducted during the visit.
Students may bring new or previously-collected cores to the Facility. Visits will ideally occur before March 2012, and will involve a ~one-week stay during which the student will work closely with LacCore staff and be trained in ICD and other techniques, using the student's cores. Awardees are also required to present an informal seminar on their research during the visit.
Applicants are encouraged to contact LacCore staff (Kristina Brady, Amy Myrbo, Anders Noren) to discuss the scope and aims of their proposed work while preparing their applications. LacCore staff are not involved in the collection of proposals nor in the selection of successful applicants.
The primary criteria for selection are the quality of the proposed science and the degree to which the project would take advantage of, and benefit from, use of the LacCore ICD facilities. Candidates in the earlier stages of their graduate programs, those lacking ICD instrumentation and expertise at their home institutions, and those who have not previously visited LacCore will be given priority. Students from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Duluth campuses are not eligible.
Funds for the LacCore Visiting Graduate Student Program are partially supported by the National Science Foundation - Instrumentation and Facilities Program as part of LacCore's operational funding.