Winners Announced - 4th Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence
11 February 2000
Dear Colleague:
ARCUS is pleased to announce the winners of the Fourth Annual ARCUS Award
for Arctic Research Excellence. The abstracts of the winning student papers
and a listing of all the 2000 participants can be found at
http://www.arcus.org.
We thank all of the competition participants for their submissions, which
reflect the excellence of researchers working in the Arctic and the
diversity of their research.
The winners, by category, are:
LIFE SCIENCES: Carita M. Bergman, Department of Zoology, University of
Guelph, Canada, for her paper "Foraging strategies of subarctic wood bison:
energy maximizing or time minimizing?"
PHYSICAL SCIENCES: Michelle Coombs, Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, for her paper "Magma storage and mixing
conditions for the 1953-68 eruption of Southwest Trident volcano, Katmai
National Park, Alaska."
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Peter Collings, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania
State University, for his paper "'If you got everything, its good enough':
perspectives on successful aging in a Canadian Inuit community."
INTERDISCIPLINARY: Jennifer Y. King, Department of Earth System Science,
University of California-Irvine, for her paper "Methane emissions and
transport by arctic sedges in Alaska: results of a vegetation removal
experiment."
These winning students have been invited to attend the annual
ARCUS-sponsored Arctic Forum in Washington D.C. in May 2000 to present their
papers to an audience of arctic researchers, federal agency personnel, and
representatives of government and private organizations involved in arctic
research. Additionally, each winner will receive a $500 honorarium.
The announcement and entry information for the Fifth Annual ARCUS Award for
Arctic Research Excellence (2001) will be distributed to the community in
late summer 2000. We hope that you will look for it and encourage
participation in the competition.
Dr. Mike Retelle
Committee Chair
ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence