Conference
Travel Awards and 2013
Saarinen Student Paper Competition
The Environmental
Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group announces its specialty
group travel awards and the 2013 Saarinen Student
Paper Competition. Students with accepted abstracts for the 2013 AAG meeting
are invited to apply. Please note the deadline to submit an abstracts for the
AAG Meeting in Los Angeles is Oct. 24, 2012
Travel grants. Undergraduate and graduate students are
encouraged to apply for travel grants of $100 to support travel to Los Angeles
for the 2013 meeting. To apply, students
should submit a copy of their accepted abstract and complete the online
application form. Preference will be
given to students competing in the Saarinen paper competition and student
members of the EPBG specialty group, although any student presenting relevant
work is welcome to apply. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2013. Attendance at the EPBG meeting is
required to receive the travel award.
Travel grant application
Travel grant application
Saarinen Student Paper Competition. The
EPBG Specialty Group will award one $250 prize for the best student paper,
illustrated paper, or poster (graduate or undergraduate) presented in either
environmental perception or behavioral geography at the 2013 AAG meeting in Los
Angeles, CA. Entrants in the Saarinen Student
Paper Competition must submit a maximum 25-page (double-spaced) paper in
support of their conference presentation. Shorter papers are welcome. Papers must be based upon original research
done as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be written entirely by
the applicant. All submissions will be judged on written clarity, methodological
soundness, contribution to the field of EPBG, and their presentation at the
meeting. The Academic Directors of the EPBG specialty group will judge all
entries. The deadline for the full paper for the Saarinen Student Paper
Competition is March 1, 2013. To apply for the Saarinen Student Paper
Competition, fill out an application form here. Email a single pdf file containing (1) your
accepted AAG abstract and presentation session, (2) a letter from your research
adviser verifying your status as a student and confirming that you are the
author of the manuscript submitted and (3) a copy of manuscript, including
figures and references to bcutts@illinois.edu with “2013 Saarinen Paper
Competition” in the subject line.
The deadline for applicants is March 1, 2013. The winners will be announced at the Environmental
Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting during the
2013 AAG meeting. Attendance at the EPBG meeting is required to receive the
travel award. Attendance is not required
to receive the Saarinen Student Paper Competition award.
Full link
to travel grant application:
