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Meeting Grants and Student Bursaries

Meeting Grants

The Geochemistry Group offers monetary contributions to support national and international meetings on geochemical topics being organised by sister scientific societies and groups. Organisers seeking support should download the application form below and forward it to the Group Treasurer, normally at least 12 months before the proposed meeting is scheduled to take place.
The next Geochemistry Group Research in Progress Meeting will be held on 4 March 2010, at Burlington House. The theme for this meeting is ‘Carbon System Science’ and will include sessions on Planetary Carbon, Paleocarbon and Modern Carbon. Further details will be available soon.

Meetings recently sponsored

  • 'Laboratory and Field Instrumentation in Forensic Geoscience', Burlington House, December 2008, organised by the Forensic Geoscience group. The Geochemistry Group provided sponsorship for speakers.
  • 'Analytical Methods Training for Trace Element and Isotope Geochemistry', Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London 17-21 November 2008. For further information download the workshop advertisement below.
  • 'Geochemisty of the Earth’s Surface 8 (GES8)', London Natural History Museum, 18-22 August 2008. The Geochemistry Group sponsored a session on Environment and Health chaired by Kym Jarvis, with invited speakers John McArthur and Jane Plant. For further information visit www.minersoc.org/GES8.htm
  • Geochemistry Group Research in Progress meeting: ‘New Developments and Novel Applications in Isotope Geochemistry’, Burlington House, 3 March 2008.
  • Geological Society Bicentennial Conference 10-12 September 2007. The Geochemistry group organised two sessions:
    • Geochemical proxies for environmental change - convened by Kym Jarvis and Ian Jarvis Invited presenter Prof Ian Fairchild, Univ of Birmingham.
    • Environmental impacts and methods for assessing contaminated land - convened by Kathryn Linge and Karen Hudson-Edwards.

Student Bursaries

The Geochemistry group welcomes applications from postgraduate researchers registered at UK universities or research institutions to aid travel to a geochemistry meeting either in the UK or internationally. Students must meet the following criteria to be considered eligible:
  • The student must present either a talk or a poster. Oral papers will be given precedence.
  • The student’s research must fall within the remit of the Geochemistry Group
  • Preference will be given to members of the Mineralogical Society or Geological Society
There are three rounds of applications during the year, and the deadlines are:

27 February 2009
15 May 2009
30 October 2009

Successful applicants are required to submit a brief report within three months of attendance of the meeting for possible publication on the Group’s website. To apply, students should download the application form below and email it to the Secretary.
A poster advertising the Geochemistry group bursaries can be downloaded below.

Previous Student Travel Grants


2008

  • Maciej Telszewski (University of East Anglia)
  • Scott Thackery (University of Aberdeen)
  • Megan French (University of East Anglia)
  • Kirsty Crocket (University of Bristol)
  • Nicholas Lloyd (University of Leicester)
  • Aryani Sumoondur (University of Leeds)
  • Hong Phuc Vu (University of Leeds)
  • Kim Handley (University of Manchester)
  • Verity Payne (University of Manchester)
  • Andrew Shore (University of Leicester)

2007

  • Matthew Box (University of Leeds)
  • Rachel Spraggs (University of Leeds)
  • Ping Luo (University of Nottingham)
  • Nicholas Goodwin (University of Manchester)
  • Charlotte Vye (The Open University)
  • Sami Mikhail (Royal Holloway University of London)
  • Hong Phuc Vu (University of Leeds)
  • Paul Halloran (Oxford University)

2006

  • Christopher Pearce (The Open University)
  • Benoit Disch (Kingston University)
  • Dominique Tobler (University of Leeds)
  • Kate Dobson (University of Glasgow)
  • Sarah Mackintosh (Manchester University)
  • Corey Archer (University of Bristol)
You can view examples of travel reports from previous years below: