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SWS STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS
Travel awards for student members of SWS are offered on a chapter by chapter basis. The SWS North Central Chapter, host to the 2009 meeting, has already determined that they will offer awards. Other chapters listed below may also offer awards; check back for newly added opportunities later in 2008.

◊ Wisconsin Student Travel Award
◊ SWS North Central Chapter
◊ SWS Pacific Northwest Chapter
◊ SWS Mid-Atlantic Chapter
◊ SWS South Atlantic Chapter
◊ SWS Western Chapter
◊ Diversity Program: Undergraduate Travel & Mentoring Awards

The Wetland Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to fostering wetland education and research, offers conference travel grants for students. See www.sws.org/docs/TWFgrants.pdf for details.

The meeting Planning Team will also offer significant registration discounts to students who are willing to volunteer for part of the conference (no SWS or WWA membership required). We will soon determine and publicize details of the registration discount and volunteer hour requirements. Keep an eye on the Student Volunteers page for details coming soon.

Wisconsin Student Travel Award
Thanks to a generous donation from The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin, we are offering a limited number of scholarships to Wisconsin students to cover the travel costs of attending this conference. Award recipients will be asked to volunteer (e.g. assist with registration, operate AV equipment, etc.). To be considered for this travel award, please complete an application form (link below) and email it to programs@wisconsinwetlands.org by Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Preference will be given to students who are presenting at the conference. Award recipients will be notified by Friday, April 3, 2009.
Click here for a Wisconsin Student Travel Award application form.

North Central Chapter 2009 Student Awards
The NCC Education Outreach Committee is pleased to announce the award of two student travel grants for the 2009 Madison meeting. Sigrid Smith and Sharmila Sunwar are this year's recipients and both will be presenting their research. Sharmila will be presenting during the poster session on the effect of temperature and salinity on populations of Triglochin maritime growing in simulated geothermal hot spring. Sigrid will present on her work which focused on mechanisms controlling plant community composition in temporary and semipermanent wetlands. The NCC Education Outreach Committee thanks everyone who submitted applications.

Pacific Northwest Chapter 2009 Student Awards
Andy Lutz from the Oregon Institute of Technology was selected as the 2009 recipient of our travel award and scholarship. Andy will present a paper titled "Patterns of vegetation development at the Wood River wetland, Oregon." Keep an eye on our chapter website (http://www.sws.org/regional/pacificNW/Scholarship.html) for future opportunities.

Mid-Atlantic Chapter 2009 Student Awards
Check back for newly added opportunities later this year. Visit chapter website here: http://www.sws.org/regional/midatlantic/

South Atlantic Chapter
The South Atlantic Chapter (SAC) of the Society of Wetland Scientists will offer several student travel awards for the 2009 Meeting in Madison, WI. One $600 grant will be awarded to the best SAC student presentation at our combined SCC-SAC chapter meeting in Tuscaloosa, AL in October 2008. The other 2 travel grants (at least $500 each) will be awarded through our normal application procedure; see the SAC website http://www.sws.org/regional/southatlantic/student_awards.html for details. SAC would also like to secure sponsorship funds for one minority undergraduate student to travel to the 2009 meeting through the SWS NSF Undergraduate Mentoring Program - confirmation and details for this award TBA.

SWS Western Chapter 2009 Student Awards
The Western Chapter is pleased to offer up to $1500 for student travel to the 2009 International Conference. The award may be given to one individual or split between several individuals depending on the pool of applications. Funds may be used to cover conference registration and any travel expenses except food.
Funds will be awarded based on the following criteria:

The awardee(s) should be a student attending an accredited institution in the Western Chapter area.
Preference will be given to students affiliated with a student chapter
Preference will be given to students presenting a talk or poster at the conference.

Interested applicants should submit a letter of application indicating their interest and qualifications to Nial McCarten at nfmccarten@ucdavis.edu. If presenting a paper or poster, the submitted abstract (or planned topic for an abstract) should be included with the letter of application. Applicants should also indicate if they have other sources of potential funding for the conference.

The Western Chapter also intends to provide sponsorship funds for one or more minority undergraduate student(s) to travel to the 2009 meeting through the SWS NSF Undergraduate Mentoring Program - confirmation and details for this award TBA.

Visit chapter website here: http://www.sws.org/regional/western/

SWS Diversity Program: Undergraduate Travel & Mentoring Awards
The Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) announces the availability of undergraduate student awards for travel to attend the 2009 annual SWS meeting in Madison. SWS is committed to increasing diversity in its membership and is offering full travel awards and mentoring at the meeting for undergraduate students from underrepresented groups. These awards are supported by the National Science Foundation and several SWS Chapters (Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Central, Western, and Pacific Northwest). Undergraduate participants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. Application materials and additional information are available from Dr. Frank P. Day, Old Dominion University (fday@odu.edu).
Application deadline is November 28, 2008.

QUESTIONS? Contact Awards Committee co-chair Kurt Kowalski (kkowalski@usgs.gov).

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