YOUNG GEOMORPHOLOGISTS

Date: May 10, 2005

The International Association of Geomorphologists is glad to inform that 12 GRANTS have been offered to support the training of Young Geomorphologists during the period September 2004-March 2005.

FORM-OSE Post-graduate Training School "Living with hydro-geomorphological risks from theory to practice" (Strasbourg, France - 14-19 September 2004)

IAG/AIG grants have been awarded to Young Geomorphologists from the Southern Mediterranean and Eastern Europe:
- Ioannis Fourniadis (Greece)
- Mihai Alexandru Micu (Romania)
- Tatiana Vujnovic (Croatia).

Additional scholarships have been offered by French institutions to young researchers from North Africa:
- CMEP (Comité Mixte algéro-français d'Evaluation et de Prospective de la coopération interuniversitaire, Ministère des Afffaires Etrangères et de l'Enseignement Supérieur France et Algérie) awarded grants to Semali Nedjoua (Algeria) and Lamia Mezhoud (Algeria).
- CMCU (Comite Mixte franco-tunisien pour la Coopération Universitaire, Ministère des Afffaires Etrangères et de l'Enseignement Supérieur France et Tunisie) offered a grant to Abdelkarim Boujelblen (Tunisia).

AGU Chapman Conference on Salt Marsh Geomorphology: Physical and Ecological Effects on Landform (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - 9-13 October 2004)

IAG/AIG grants have been awarded to Young Geomorphologists from North America:
- Ben Poulter (USA)
- Alexandra Shaw (Canada).

IAG/AIG International Course on Dynamic of Fluvial Systems: Processes and Morphologies (Maringá, Brazil - 15-25 October 2004)

IAG/AIG grants have been awarded to Young Geomorphologists from Latin America:
- Alina Crincoli (Argentina)
- Alexandro Garcia (Mexico)
- Esteban Passeggi (Argentina)
- Ricardo Szupyani (Argentina).

IAG/AIG Grants for the BGRG "Post-graduate Research Training Workshop" (Windsor, UK - 13-16 December 2004)

An IAG/AIG grant has been awarded a Phd student in Geomorphology from Eastern Europe:
- Dominika Wronska (Poland).

III Postgraduate Field Course on the Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina, 5-21 March 2005)

IAG/AIG grants have been awarded Young Geomorphologists from Latin America:
- Juan Luis Garcia (Chile)
- Carolina Martinez Reyes (Chile).
Additional support has been offered by the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET) (2 scholarships for Argentine graduate students) and from the Government of the Province of Tierra del Fuego (2 scholarships for Fuegian native or resident graduate students).

The next IAG/AIG grants (15 ca.) will be offered to enable Young Geomorphologists from the less favoured countries of the World to take part in the 6th International Conference on Geomorphology (Zaragoza, Spain - 7-11 September 2005).

Mauro Soldati
IAG/AIG EC Member