The Monica Cole Research Grant offers £1,000 each year to a physical geographer undergraduate or postgraduate student undertaking original fieldwork overseas. The Grant is given in memory of Professor Monica Cole, an eminent physical geography researcher.
Deadline: 18 January 2013
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Monica Cole Research Grant recipients
2011: Rocio Beatriz Urrutia (Oxford University). Carbon productivity in millennial Fitzroya cupressoides (Molina) Johnston forests in Southern Chile, its climatic controls and projections under climate change scenarios
2010: Sarah-Jane Phelan (University of Exeter). Quantification of the impact of climate change on landscape evolution as mediated by plant community dynamics.
2009: Dorothy Sanders (Durham University). Kosovo’s poisoned generation? : Peri-urban agriculture as a pathway for the human uptake of heavy metal pollution from the Zvečan smelter, Trepca Mine Complex, Kosovo
2008: Kate Armstrong (University of Edinburgh). Testing Wallace's Line as a biogeographical barrier for the pantropical tree manilkara (Sapotaceae)
2007: Natasha Barlow (Durham University). Isostasy, eustasy and tectonics in Southern Alaska
2004: Dominique Chaput (Oxford University). Dynamics of microbiological weathering communities in a high Arctic ecosystem
2001: Helen Bray (Oxford University). Late quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Arabian peninsula
1998: Anne-Marie Nuttall (University of Bristol). Assessing the impact of superimposed ice formation on the glacier mass balance of north west Svalbard
1995: Sarah Selby (University of Edinburgh). Groundwater salinity and its relationship with plant composition and distribution on a wetland/savannah transition in the Rio Bravo Conservation Area, north west Belize
For further information on the projects listed above, including a summary of the research and expedition reports, please browse the Society's Expeditions Database.
About the Award
Born in 1922, Monica Cole was a leader in the field of geo-botany. Her career spanned continents and decades. She held the position of Chair of Geography at Bedford College for many years. Shortly after her retirement in 1975, she received the RGS-IBG Murchison Medal for major contributions to the geography of South Africa and to the understanding of savannas.
The Monica Cole Research Grant is given annually in her memory, to a physical geographer undertaking original fieldwork overseas.