LacCore Visiting Graduate Student Program
This year's application deadline has passed. Receipients' names will be posted here once they have accepted. The announcement for the 2009 competition will occur in January or February of 2009. Thanks to all who applied - we had a very strong applicant pool for our first go-around!
LacCore announces a new 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 free instrument time, staff support, and training offered to all LacCore visitors. Three grants are available in 2008.
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 Dr. Sheri Fritz (sfritz2 [at] unl.edu), by noon Central Standard Time on Friday, March 21, 2008. Applications will be evaluated by Dr. Fritz and other members of the LacCore External Advisory Group (EAG); award notifications will be made in late April.
Funds are intended to support student travel, core shipping, and initial core description (for a discussion of ICD, please see the Core Facility ICD page), and may not be used to pay for LacCore-related analytical services such as coulometry, stable isotope analysis, scanning XRF, etc.
Students may bring new or previously-collected cores to the Facility. Visits will ideally occur during summer/fall 2008 and involve a one- to two-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.
Applicants are encouraged to contact LacCore staff (Kristina Brady, Amy Myrbo, Anders Noren; contact information here) 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 is 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 grad careers, or lacking ICD instrumentation and expertise at their home institutions, will be given special consideration. Students from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Duluth campuses are not eligible.
Funds for the LacCore Visiting Grad Student Program are provided by the National Science Foundation - Instrumentation and Facilities Program as part of LacCore's operational funding. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
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core image: Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana
Updated March 15, 2008 by Amy Myrbo