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Volume 2, Fall 2003 (Oct. 7)

From Michael Robbins, your geo-correspondent:

SB (See Board between 107 and 105)
SR (Seminar Room)
OYD (On Your Door)

Summer Programs, including Field Camps:

University of Buffalo - Travel to the Rocky Mountains and get done early this summer as the camp runs May 11th to June 10th 2004 (SB)
www.geology.buffalo.edu/fieldcamp

WILD ROCKIES FIELD INSTITUTE - If you want an ecological based field course, why not check out the University of Montana'a Extended Studies branch. (SB) www.wildrockies.org/wrfi

Graduate Schools:

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, where you can learn all sorts of interesting geology and be rained on regularly. And you will be as their excellent field sites are one of their biggest drawing
points. (SB)

Go to BUFFALO UNIVERSITY and be close to Niagara falls for at least the next two years of your life- learn Volcanology, or Environmental Geology. (SB)

Graduate studies in to MIAMI - Miami of Ohio that is SB for a full list of fields of study and research including Hydrogeology, Volcanology, Tectonics, etc...

BARD isn't just a musician you know, SB for details

And relating to Graduate Studies ... How about working at the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION if you're interested in a predoctoral fellowship www.si.edu/research+study

Scholarships:

How about a national security graduate fellowship? This is a great way to make you make everyone else safer. Gain great stipend money with no military service obligation. Protect your country today! (SB)

The HERTZ FOUNDATION has a full tuition equivalence for up to 5 years of study if you're interested in a 5 year graduate fellowship in the applied physical sciences! (SB)

Interested in getting funding for summer field work in the ocean, take a look at the Summer Student Fellowship Program. (SB) www.whoi.edu/education

Reading Materials in the Seminar Room:

Interested in Volcanology? Then the Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network is the reading for you. (SR)

And who can go wrong with The Professional Geologist? (SR)

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