The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) will provide travel grants for early career scientists (less than 5 years after completion of PhD) presenting papers to the ASSW 2009 Science Symposium held in Bergen (Norway), 24-26 March 2009. The maximum travel support will be 2000 EUR per person. Some of the travel grants are specially allocated to Russian early career scientists. Several of the sessions are related to permafrost.

Applications should be sent to the

IASC Secretariat
P.O. Box 50003
?104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-6739613
E-mail: iasc@iasc.se

and include the abstract submitted to the conference, a short but informative CV and an estimate of the travel costs. The deadline for application is 15 December 2008. Please note that applications will only be considered if the abstract has also been submitted through the conference website (www.imr.no/assw2009).