Call for Papers: Tarr Student Poster Competition, 2010 AAG Annual Meeting

Abstracts Due: November 18, 2009

Annually, the Cryosphere Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers hosts this illustrated paper competition which highlights student research on any aspect of the cryosphere. The competition is open to any undergraduate or graduate student completing original cryosphere related research in the past academic year. The session is named in honor of Ralph Stockman Tarr who was a glacial geologist and geographer, studied under W. M. Davis at Harvard and led numerous scientific expeditions to Greenland and Alaska while a Professor at Cornell University.

There is a cash prize! This is the only student money available from the AAG Cryosphere Specialty Group. All interested students are encouraged to register, and all advisers are requested to advertise this opportunity to their students.

Sponsorships:

Cryosphere Specialty Group
Climate Specialty Group
Remote Sensing Specialty Group

Procedure:

1) Register for the AAG Meeting and submit your illustrated paper http://aag.org/.
2) Provide Robert Hellström with your PIN # and he can add you to the Tarr session.

Contact: Robert Hellström (RHellstrom@bridgew.edu)