Student Opportunity
Svalbard Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Application Deadline: Sunday, 15 January 2006
For details and application forms, please go to:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/svalbard
The Svalbard Research Experience for Undergraduates Project is once
again offering exciting opportunities for students to participate in
polar science research projects on the arctic island of Svalbard.
Participants will calibrate the record of Holocene climate change
contained in glacial-fed Lake Linne by studying the modern glacial,
fluvial, and lacustrine systems.
Motivated college geoscience students are sought who will be in their
final undergraduate year during 2006-2007 to develop their own research
project addressing current and past climate change in the Arctic.
Students will formulate their own research questions and carry out the
associated field work during a five week field program on Svalbard.
Students will complete their projects at their home institution during
their senior academic year. The program will run from approximately 15
July to 22 August 2006.
Students from under-represented minority groups are particularly
encouraged to apply. Students selected for the Svalbard REU Project will
have all of their expenses paid (air fare, room/board, and research
costs) and will receive a summer stipend. The Svalbard REU is supported
by NSF's Arctic Natural Sciences and Paleoclimate Programs. NSF requires
participating students to be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Application Deadline: Sunday, 15 January 2006
For details and application forms, please go to:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/svalbard
Students are encouraged to contact Al Werner and Steve Roof at
svalbard [at] mtholyoke.edu with any questions.