The Peter Fleming Award is an award of up to £9,000 for a geographical research project that seeks to advance geographical science. It is one of the senior awards that the Society offers to support the development of geographical knowledge and understanding.

Applications can be made in any field of geography provided the project can demonstrate genuine advancement of current knowledge.

  Next Deadline: 27 November 2009

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  2009 Recipient
· Dr A. J. Hodson (University of Sheffield) - Microbial enhancement of glacier melt

It has been suggested that some 10 million trillion microorganisms are liberated from glacier ice by melting every year. This project will investigate whether deglaciation is accelerated by this process.

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