The New Geographical Club Award provides £1,000 to support a postgraduate student (Masters or PhD) undertaking geographical fieldwork or other forms of data collection in the UK or overseas to advance geographical knowledge or understanding.

No restrictions are placed on research topic or location. Project expenses covered by the award can include, but are not limited to, travel, subsistence, equipment and field assistants.

The Geographical Club is a members dining club which has its origins in the Raleigh Club, a dining club for explorers and travellers established in 1826.

  Application Deadline: 26 November 2010

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 2009 Recipient

  Edmund Garrett (Durham University): Reconstruction of Holocene East Asian monsoon intensity using benthic foraminifera and oxygen isotopes from the Pearl River estuary, Southeast China.

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