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Research Grants in Scientific Drilling
The DOSECC Grant Program (formerly called the DOSECC Internship Program) invites students and teachers to apply for summer 2010 grants in scientific drilling. The grants promote involvement in projects where drilling has provided data and materials for study, and are available to college students (graduate or undergraduate) and primary and secondary schoolteachers, worldwide.
Awardees can undertake research related to ongoing or past drilling efforts and can work anywhere you like - you can crunch data at your home institution, travel to a drill site to collect data, go to a core repository to examine samples, or prepare a lesson plan for your science classroom. You pick your own project and do your own research. Awardees do not come to DOSECC to work with us, nor do we provide the rock or sediment core - DOSECC personnel are not really involved in your project, except for granting you the money to do your research.
Applicants do not have to be attending a DOSECC Member Institution to be considered for this award. Grant funding will be available in the summer of 2010 and budgets of $2000 to $5000 are appropriate. Applications must be received by March 1, 2010 and awardees will be announced April 1, 2010.
For additional information consult www.dosecc.org/html/internship.html, or email David Zur, DOSECC's Education and Outreach Manager (dzur@dosecc.org).
See details on the awardees and their projects.
Applying for Grants
- a brief statement of the work (2 pages maximum)
- the qualifications of the applicant contained in a CV
- a discussion of future education or career plans
- a budget, and
- a recommendation letter(s) from a faculty member(s) or colleague familiar with your qualifications.
Instructions for Applicants
Prospective grantees should prepare a brief proposal and have it reviewed by a faculty sponsor before submitting it to DOSECC. Undergraduates and graduate students are invited to apply, as are primary and secondary school teachers, worldwide.
The proposal should include:
A Note on Budgets
Total budgets between $2,000 and $5,000 are appropriate. Please note that funding is limited to your actual work (including such things as salary, travel expenses, sample preparation and analysis, laboratory time, etc.); DOSECC will not provide funding for past or future drilling efforts.
The application should be sent to DOSECC by March 1, 2010. Apply via e-mail (dzur@dosecc.org) or post to:
DOSECC
P.O. Box 58857
Salt Lake City, UT 84158-0857.
Awardees will be announced April 1, 2010.
Instructions for Faculty Sponsors
Faculty sponsors are responsible for providing appropriate training and mentoring. Sponsors should discuss possible projects with prospective grantees and guide them in preparing their proposal. The sponsor should also submit a recommendation letter for the student.
Evaluation of Applications and Announcement of Awards.
Applications will be reviewed by DOSECC’s Education and Outreach Committee. The committee will consider the qualifications of the applicant, the appropriateness of the project to the time and resources available, and the potential contributions of the grant to the scientific program or to the applicant's own objectives. Awards will be announced on April 1, 2010.
Dissemination of Results
Grant awardees should plan to present the results of their investigation at a future DOSECC continental scientific drilling meeting. DOSECC will reimburse travel expenses for the grantee to attend this meeting. Awardees will be required to submit a digitally formatted project summary for posting on the DOSECC webpage and/or newsletter. Awardees are requested to acknowledge DOSECC as providing funding in publications resulting from their investigations.
DOSECC may also reimburse travel expenses for a poster or presentation at an appropriate professional meeting, such as the AGU Fall Meeting or annual GSA meeting.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0829286. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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