ArcticNet Graduate Student Poster Awards

One of ArcticNet’s main objectives is to contribute to the training of the next generation of scientists needed to study, model, manage, and ensure the stewardship of the changing Canadian Arctic. To encourage student research, ArcticNet holds an annual poster competition for excellence in research and presentation.

This competition is open to any graduate student whose research is funded by ArcticNet and whose abstract is approved for presentation at the ASM2009. Only one poster per person can be presented at the meeting. Although Network Investigators are encouraged to bring posters for students that cannot attend the meeting, only Graduate Students present at the poster sessions and able to discuss their work with members of the jury are eligible for the awards.

During the dedicated poster sessions on 9 and 10 December, a panel of judges will evaluate eligible posters based on the clarity, comprehensiveness and conciseness of the abstract, the scientific quality, and presentation. The winners of the Poster Award will receive $500 for first place, $400 for second place and $300 for third place in each of the following four categories: Social Science, Human Health, Marine-Natural Science and Terrestrial-Natural Science. An additional Inuit Partnership of Excellence Award will be granted to the poster that best addresses Inuit priorities, involves Inuit partners and builds capacity. The winner of the Inuit Partnership of Excellence Award will be presented with an Inuit carving.

The winners of the ArcticNet Graduate Student Poster Awards will be announced and prizes awarded at the Banquet Dinner on 10 December 2009.

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