Call for Undergraduate Submissions - Stats Canada/Canadian Association of Geographers Environmental & Resource Studies Award

The Canadian Association of Geographers / Statistics Canada Student Award for Research into Human Impacts on the Canadian Environment

Established to recognize and promote undergraduate research on the environment and encourage the use of Statistics Canada's data in the area of environmental analysis, this award is given to an undergraduate student in geography and/or environmental studies/science for the best paper examining impacts of human activity on Canada's environment.

The winning student receives:
• a year's membership in the CAGa year's membership in the CAG
• an opportunity to present his/her paper at the CAG national annual conference where a certificate and letter of commendation will be presented
• a subsidy of $750 towards the cost of registration, travel and living expenses to enable attendance at the CAG national annual conference expenses to enable attendance at the CAG national annual conference
• nation-wide publication of his/her name on the Statistics Canada and CAG Environment and Resources Study Group web sites, and publication of the paper in the CAG Environment and Resources Study Group newsletter
• complimentary copies of Human Activity and the Environment, Statistics Canada's flagship environmental publication

All undergraduate students in departments of geography and/or environmental studies/science in postsecondary institutions across Canada may apply.

For more information, please see www.statcan.ca/english/liaison/impact.htm

Applications should be sent by e-mail no later than January 15, 2007 to:

Alan Diduck, a.diduck@uwinnipeg.ca
CAG Environment and Resources Study Group
Environmental Studies Program, The University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9
Phone: (204) 786-9326