Undergraduate Travel Grant to attend William Smith Meeting
Sponsorship has been secured to fund attendance at the William Smith Meeting 2015 (Part 2) - 200 Years and Beyond: The future of geological mapping on 5 November 2015
Funding of up to £350 (per application) is available to support two undergraduate students to attend, participate in and present posters at the conference.
How to Apply
To be considered for a William Smith Grant, please complete the Grant Application form, including the following:
- A 300 word abstract describing the scientific outcomes of your independent mapping research/dissertation
- An answer to the following question in no more than 300 words:
How and why should we continue to teach geological mapping to geology students at first degree level?
About the meeting
In 1815 William Smith published the first edition of his Geological Map of England and Wales. Smith’s map made a seminal contribution to the understanding of the ground beneath our feet and, by showing the location of coal, iron ore, clays and other raw materials, helped fuel the industrial revolution. Two hundred years on, the demands for spatial knowledge about our geological environment and its resources and hazards become ever more pressing.
This second William Smith Conference in 2015 will look to the future of geological mapping, and will open with a keynote by Professor Iain Stewart on the grand challenges for geoscience that will motivate the ‘William Smiths’ of tomorrow.
The meeting will showcase the new science, technologies and information systems that are changing and broadening the whole concept, purpose and impact of geological mapping. A panel discussion will focus on the skills and roles of the field geologists of the future, and the meeting will conclude with an evening lecture that takes geological mapping to the next frontier – planetary geology.