*********************************************************** From: William Rose <raman@xxxxxxx> *********************************************************** Travel Grants for volcanology graduate students in US Universities to IAVCEI General Assembly, Iceland Funding has been applied for from the US National Science Foundation for travel support for students enrolled in US graduate programs to attend the IAVCEI meeting in Iceland this August. Students from any US graduate program doing volcanological research are eligible if they submit at least one abstract for the meeting. Students are asked to submit, as one .pdf file, their current resume, their IAVCEI abstract(s), a personal statement of why attending this meeting is advantageous and a statement concerning available costshare from other sources along with anticipated budget. A key feature of this meeting is the number of focused workshops before and after the meeting of special relevance and value to students. We will give priority in making the awards to students who are enrolled in these workshops so please state your specific intention in this regard in your letter of application. We will also consider how close you are to dissertation completion, whether you have received support for such meetings in the past and gender, racial and geographic diversity in our funding decisions. The cost of attending the conference and a workshop or field trip is estimated at about $4400 each, but we can support only the cost of travel hotel and meeting registration or about $2500. We expect that the student's university support can help them by paying part of the cost, including workshops and field trips. We are hoping to be able to support 12 or more students, but funding is undecided and uncertain at this point. Selection of successful applicants will be made by a special AGU-VGP committee consisting of volcanology faculty at US universities: Bruce Houghton, Paul Wallace, Eliza Calder and Bill Rose. The committee's criteria for selection will be based on the impact of the proposed package of activities in advancing the student's research portfolio. Funds from NSF are expected to be supplemented by additional support from IAVCEI. Submit your .pdf application to Bill Rose (raman@xxxxxxx). Application deadline is 15 March 2008. Bill Rose Professor ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
