Travel Grant Awardees

Date Award Granted	Winner	Purpose	Title of presentation, poster, or project click title for link to abstract or conference web site.
April, 2023	Kaytan Kelkar	Attend 2023 European Conference on Permafrost	A rock glacier inventory of the Central Alaska Range
April, 2019	Juliette Funck	Attend 2019 INQUA Meeting in Dublin, Ireland	The energetic cost of travel: Linking strontium and nitrogen isotope analyses from bison as indices of their mobility and nutritional stress
April, 2019	Kendall Mills	Attend 2019 Society of Mammologists' Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.	The genetics and persistence of a seemingly maladaptive trait in the hoary marmot species complex
May, 2018	Juliette Funck	Attend 2018 IsoEcol Meeting in Vina del Mar, Chile	The life and times of a steppe bison (Bison priscus) from Arctic Alaska
May, 2018	Brooks Lawler	Attend 2019 Alaska Anthropological Assoc. Annual Meeting, in Nome	Lithic resource variability and analytical methods
May, 2017	Casey Clark	Attend 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals	Braving the elements: Investigating Pacific walrus life history and movements using trace elements in teeth
April, 2016	Nicholas Schmuck	Conduct laboratory work at the University of Georgia's Center for Applied Isotope Studies, Summer, 2016	Improving Data Resolution in Southeast Alaska: A Geochemical Analysis of Geological Obsidian for Sourcing Archaeological Materials . . . .
	Matthew Whitley	IX. International Conference on Permafrost, Potsdam, Germany, June, 2016	Thermokarst-induced landscape change on the Yukon Kuskokwim (YK) Delta, Alaska
	Paul Wilcox	Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September, 2016	Increasing humidity during the Younger Dryas revealed by palynological and sedimentalogical analysis of cores from Baker Island, southeast Alaska
May, 2015	Caitlin Holloway	Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, April 2016	An Archaeobotanical Analysis of the Upward Sun River Site, Central Alaska
	Louise Farquharson	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December, 2015 in San Francisco, CA	Timing of high sea level stands in Arctic Alaska during Marine Isotope Stage 5 and inferences about coastal processes
	Benjamin Gaglioti	XIXth INQUA Conference, July, 2015 in Nagoya, Japan	Using varved lake sediments to detect human impacts on boreal wildfire in Interior, Alaska
July, 2013	Louise Farquharson	Attending Utah State University Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Short Course, May 2014
November, 2010	Louise Farquharson	XVIIIth INQUA Conference; July 2011 in Bern, Switzerland	Holocene thermokarst lake formation within yedoma sediments of the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska and the Kolyma River Lowlands, North East Siberia
October, 2009	Samuel Coffman	Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting; April 14-18, 2010 in St. Louis, MO	Early Holocene Archaeology at Teklanika West, central Alaska
October, 2009	Phoebe Gilbert	Alaska Anthropological Assoc. Annual Meeting; March 24-27, 2010 in Anchorage, AK	Occupation and Climate change at the Mead Site: A Geoarchaeological Approach
2008 and earlier
October, 2008	Jason Addison	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December, 2008. San Francisco, CA	High-Resolution Records of Mid-Holocene Paleoceanographic Change From the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean
October, 2007	Sarah Meitl	Alaska Anthropological Assoc. Annual Meeting. February, 2008. Anchorage, AK	Denbigh Flint Complex at Onion Portage: What can stone tools tell us?
	Eva Stephani	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December, 2007. San Francisco, CA	Studies of contemporary glacier basal ice cryostructures to identify buried basal ice in the permafrost: an example from the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska.
	Yiming Wang	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December, 2007. San Francisco, CA	Late Quaternary Environmental Changes Inferred from the Stable Oxygen Isotope Composition of Aquatic Insects (Chironomidae: Diptera) and Stable Hydrogen Isotope Composition of bulk sediments from Idavain Lake, Southwest Alaska
October, 2006	Jason Addison	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December, 2006. San Francisco, CA	Biogeochemical and Isotopic Records of Holocene Climate Change in the Gulf of Alaska, Northeast Pacific Ocean
October, 2006	Hayley Lanier	Study faunal collections at the Smithsonian Museum	Phylogeography, morphology, and evolutionary history of the collared pika (Ochotona collaris)
November, 2005	Tammy Greene	American Society of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting. March, 2006. Anchorage, AK	Diet at predynastic Hierakonpolis: an examination of macrowear, microwear, and caries
	Nicole Misarti	Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting. April, 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico	Reconstructing midden composition through chemical analysis of soils in the eastern Aleutians
	Amy Rodman	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December, 2005. San Francisco, CA	Origin for Kuparuk River basin springs, North Slope, Alaska
Note: The AQC has been awarding travel grants since 1990; only the most recent recipients are listed here.

Alaska Quaternary Center

Travel Grant Awardees

2008 and earlier