The Soil Ecology Society (SES) is pleased to offer a limited number of travel awards to support student travel to the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Soil Ecology Society. Anyone submitting an abstract who is a student at the time of submission is eligible to enter the Parkinson Student Travel Award competition by selecting this option during abstract submission.
Students presenting papers at the Soil Ecology Society meeting are eligible to apply for a Parkinson travel grant. These grants are typically in the range of $450 and are awarded at the meeting. Applications are due by the end of the day on the abstract submission deadline, April 1, 2019.
The application should include the following:
- Abstract for the meeting
- A letter of support from the advisor
- Statement of research and career interest
- Travel budget
Title the subject line and filename: SES student travel award-(name) and send the completed materials to: Dr. Loren Byrne, lbyrne@rwu.edu
Additionally, SES sponsors a Student Presentation Award competition during its biennial conference. To participate, indicate that you want to enter the Student Presentation Award Competition during abstract submission. For more information on the criteria used to judge student presentations, please see http://www.soilecologysociety.com/meetings/2019-meeting/information-for-presenters/.
Dr. Dennis Parkinson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at the University of
Calgary, passed away on December 29, 2009, following a brief illness. The tribute below was
written by Dr. Jeff Goldberg, Head of the Biology Department at the University of Calgary.
Dennis Parkinson, 1927 – 2009. It is with tremendous sadness that I must announce that Dennis Parkinson passed away on December 29, 2009. Dennis was one of the earliest members of the Department of Biology, and served as Department Head for more than two terms, between 1969 and 1981. Remarkably, Dennis was still running his lab up until last year, and he was present in the Department on almost a daily basis up until recently. The Department of Biological Sciences has lost perhaps its greatest builder, and a truly exceptional scholar.