QRC members lead and participate in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects from the study of past earth climates and glaciations to shifts in the geographic distributions and evolution of vegetation and faunal communities, to the evolution and dispersals of the genus Homo and the increasing scales of human modification of earth environments through the Holocene. QRC provides a venue for meeting and collaborating with scholars across Quaternary disciplines. We are also fortunate to be able to provide seed funding and small grants for member research projects. We are especially happy to support grad student and junior scholar research activities, much of which leads to larger, external funding from agencies like the National Science Foundation.
Abstract: Bernard used QRC funds to support the presentation of the data to an audience that includes the most active groups studying mountain permafrost in diverse sites worldwide, including the Himalaya. Presenting these rich results to an informed, international audience will help us obtain external funding to sustain the collective research by my group and UW colleagues in the Himalaya. Bernard submitted an abstract titled “The diverse important roles of permafrost and periglacial processes in shaping the highest mountains on earth (ABS794)” to the 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference. The abstract was accepted and with the support of the QRC, Bernard was able to attend the conference as the NSF funds that fueled this work.
Abstract: Bernard used QRC funds to support the presentation of the data to an audience that includes the most active groups studying mountain permafrost in diverse sites worldwide, including the Himalaya. Presenting these rich results to an informed, international audience will help us obtain external funding to sustain the collective research by my group and UW colleagues in the Himalaya. Bernard submitted an abstract titled “The diverse important roles of permafrost and periglacial processes in shaping the highest mountains on earth (ABS794)” to the 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference. The abstract was accepted and with the support of the QRC, Bernard was able to attend the conference as the NSF funds that fueled this work.