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Apply Now: Student Research Awards

Call for Applications (deadline June 10, 2024)

Summer 2024

Climate Change and Environmental Justice Student Research Awards

Overview

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to offer several $4,000 Summer Research Awards for either graduate students or undergraduate students to conduct independent research on environmental justice and climate change in the Pacific Northwest. Students at any level are eligible to apply provided they meet the following research and eligibility requirements.

Research Criteria

  • The research proposal must be sound, feasible, and relevant
  • The Summer 2024 research travel, supplies, and time are not already funded by another source
  • Proposed research is humanities oriented
  • Proposed Summer 2024 research focuses on climate change and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia), with a more precise focus on either (a) Indigenous communities and/or (b) the cryosphere (snow, ice, glaciers, permafrost)

Eligibility Criteria

  • Projects may come from any discipline but must have a substantive humanities component
  • Applicants can be any student, from a first-year undergraduate to an advanced PhD student, but the applicant must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2024
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants cannot be “double paid” to conduct this research (e.g., if your travel is already funded, then you cannot get more money to fund that travel; or, if your time is already funded through a summer stipend, scholarship, or GE, then you cannot get double salary)
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if proposed research involves work with human subjects

Award Expectations

  • Commit substantial time to conducting this proposed research during Summer 2024
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2024
  • Complete a progress report by July 20 to receive the first half of the award pay around August 1
  • Complete a research report on the research conducted over the summer by September 15, 2024 (details of the report format will be distributed to awardees)
  • Graduate student awardees must share the results of the Summer 2024 research conducted in some public-facing venue, such as a departmental colloquium, UO Graduate Research Forum, or national conference
  • Undergraduate awardees must share the results of the research project at the May 2025 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work (presentations, publications, theses, etc.) resulting from the Summer 2024 award
  • Notify Professor Carey of publications, public exhibits, or presentations resulting from the award

Distribution of Funds

This Research Award will be paid out in two equal installments, one around August 1 after a progress report has been approved, and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research report has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

Application Procedures

Submit an application with the following components:

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major or graduate program, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter must also include a statement affirming that you meet all eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project proposal in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to humanities, climate change, environmental justice, and the cryosphere or Indigenous communities; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline of proposed activities, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll eventually produce and your plan for conducting research and/or writing during summer
  • resume or CV
  • budget that explains (1) what you plan to use the Award funds for (note that funds to cover a stipend for your time devoted to research or writing is perfectly acceptable provided your time is not funded by another source); and (2) what other funding you do or don’t have, indicating precisely what those other funds do and do not cover.
  • The name and contact info for your faculty mentors/advisor, who will be contacted by Professor Carey. But note: your mentor does NOT need to submit a letter of recommendation.

Application Deadline: June 10, 2024

Application Submission

Submit applications as a single PDF document to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Questions: Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards

Call for Applications (deadline May 19, 2023)

 

Summer 2023

Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards

 

Overview

 

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for undergraduate students at any level to design and conduct full-time Summer 2023 humanities-oriented research on topics related to ice, climate, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia).

 

Glaciers are of course icons of climate change. But they also play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, hydropower, alpine recreation, conservation, coastal and marine ecosystems, water supplies, public lands management, livelihoods, identities, and food security. Proposed research could focus on any of these topics, and many others, as long as it is connected to ice, the humanities, and environmental justice.

 

The goal of these Research Awards is to help students develop, conduct, and finish a research project. Ideally, the research proposal will be created with guidance from a faculty mentor. However, if you have a project idea, but not a faculty mentor, then contact Professor Carey who runs the UO Glacier Lab to help.

 

An exciting component of this Research Award is completion of a final product by the end of Summer 2023. There is flexibility in these final products. Most students will choose to write a research paper. But others may decide to develop a museum exhibit, or an art installation, or a studio project, or to publish a journalism article. Options are endless but must be agreed upon with your faculty mentor at the outset, so expectations and goals are transparent.

 

Eligibility Criteria

 

  • Projects may come from any discipline but should be connected to the humanities, environmental justice, and ice/climate
  • Applicants must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2023
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants may not be paid to conduct research through other internal UO research support programs during Summer 2023, though they may have academic-year support
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if the research involves work with human subjects

 

Award Expectations

 

  • Commit full-time effort to conducting research during Summer 2023
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2023
  • Complete a research paper or agreed-upon final product (exhibit, studio, art, etc.) by the end of Summer 2023
  • Meet with the other award winner and Professor Carey at least 3 times during the summer
  • Share the results of the research project at the May 2024 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work resulting from the Summer 2023 research
  • Notify Professor Carey of any publications, public exhibits, or conference presentations resulting from the research project

 

Award Details

 

This Research Award provides $4,000 during the Summer of 2023. The award will be paid out in two equal installments, one at the end of Week 5 of Summer and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research paper/product has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

 

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

 

Application Procedures

 

Submit an application with the following components:

 

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter must also include a statement affirming that you meet eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project description in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to ice, humanities, and environmental justice; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll produce and your plan for completing it during summer
  • a resume
  • a letter of recommendation from your faculty mentor, which should include their commitment to mentor your project during Summer 2023

 

Application Deadline: May 19, 2023

 

Application Submission

 

Submit applications to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Faculty mentors should also send their letters of support directly to Mark Carey.

 

Questions

 

Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Australian environmental historian visits Glacier Lab

Weaving worlds: Wetlands and multispecies politics of plants
Associate Professor Emily O’Gorman, Macquarie University, Australia
Speaking at the Geography Department Colloquium on March 16th, 2023 at 4pm. Condon 106.

Abstract below.

Wetlands in Australia have been important sites of political engagement and activism for many Aboriginal groups, who seek to care for Country, and strengthen their rights and roles in the management of water and particular sites.  This paper engages with the contemporary weaving practices of three Aboriginal women at different wetland sites as they use this practice to enact ongoing connections to Country, a term used by Aboriginal people to refer to the nourishing interconnections between multiple beings. It particularly develops in conversation with Danielle Carney Flakelar, a Wailwan woman who continues to care for the Macquarie Marshes in a range of direct and indirect ways. Weaving draws us into multiple temporalities and particular multispecies relationships, involving plants and people, as well as many others. By focusing on weaving this paper shows that the concerns of Wailwan and other Aboriginal groups, concerns which may seem disparate to others, are in fact intimately connected. It aims to provide a more complex, richly woven, understanding of what is at stake in the lack of water in wetlands. Weaving interconnects generations and Country, water politics, and access to wetlands. In this way, this paper engages with the plants used for weaving as agents of and for postcolonial and multispecies politics. 

Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant: Call for Applications

Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant for Arctic, Greenland, and social-environmental research

Hours:                              15-25 hours per week during summer (flexible schedule)
Hourly Wage:                   $15.00 per hour
Location:                          flexible
Start Date:                        June 2022
Supervisor:                      Professor Mark Carey
Application Deadline:      June 10, 2022

Job Description:  Interested in doing research on an interdisciplinary National Science Foundation funded grant focusing on Greenland fjords, Indigenous communities, glaciers, icebergs, environmental change, and oceans?  Do you like interdisciplinary research that links the natural sciences and social sciences?  Would you like to join a lab group exploring a variety of social-environmental topics?  Professor Mark Carey of the Environmental Studies Program and Geography Department is looking for responsible, self-motivated undergraduates to serve as research assistants for summer 2022 and possibly beyond.

Successful research assistants may be invited to join the Glacier Lab on a longer-term basis. Past research assistants and Lab members have co-authored published articles, gone on research trips (even to Peru), won grants and fellowships, and gotten into excellent graduate programs after graduation, most recently to Berkeley and Duke.  Research assistantships like this one in the Glacier Lab allows students to work alongside Professor Carey and an array of graduate students to help advance professional training in ways far beyond typical coursework.

Qualifications:  Responsible, reliable, self-directed, attention to detail. Research skills. Any major and any education level, from freshmen to juniors at UO (seniors ineligible if graduating this spring or summer).

Application Deadline:  June 10, 2022

To Apply:  Please send your application that includes the following materials BY EMAIL to Mark Carey: carey@uoregon.edu:

  1. cover letter including the following information: (a) your qualifications; (b) your interest in this particular position; (c) explanation for how the position fits into your broader academic and career goals;
  2. Resume listing your GPA and relevant coursework;
  3. Names and contact info for two references (letters of recommendation not required).

New Course Development Grant for Ice & Environmental Justice

Call for Applications (due May 20, 2022)

$4,500 Course Development Grant for a New Course Related to Ice and Environmental Justice in the Pacific Northwest

If you’re thinking about developing a new course related to environmental justice—and particularly if it connects to the Pacific Northwest and to snow, ice, glaciers, or glacier-fed waterways—then consider applying for a new course development grant ($4,500 stipend plus OPE). This grant is available thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

The goal of this larger Mellon “Pacific Northwest Just Futures” grant is to advance research and education on social and environmental justice issues in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia). There are many ways to bring these issues into a new course, and instructors from all disciplines, in all units, and all UO colleges are eligible to apply. Environmental justice courses related to ice could go in many different directions. Arctic residents including in Alaska rely on thinning sea ice for their homelands, hunting, fishing, transportation, cultural identity, and everything. Permafrost thawing is forcing some coastal communities to relocate and affecting vital infrastructure. Shrinking glaciers in Oregon and Washington play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, Tribal rights and treaties, hydropower, alpine recreation, coastal and marine ecosystems, public lands management, livelihoods and economies, identities, and food security.

Proposed new courses could focus on any of these topics and ice types (sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, permafrost, snow), and many others, as long as the course is connected to ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest. A new course in environmental ethics could include substantive new content on the Pacific Northwest and/or the cryosphere, while a new Earth Sciences course on hazards could add an environmental justice component, or a Law School course on water in the Northwest could bring in glaciers that feed those waterways, or an Indigenous environmental studies course could increase new content on environmental hazards and justice in Oregon.

One $4,500 course development grant will be awarded this spring/summer 2022, with the expectation that the course will be taught before Fall 2023 (so anytime during the 2022-2023 academic year, or in Fall 2023).

Eligibility and Priorities

This course development grant is designed to help an instructor create a new course or substantially overhaul an existing course with new content and structure. All UO instructors and faculty are eligible—from any unit, discipline, department, or college. Anyone who teaches their own courses can apply. Priority will be given to courses that will likely be taught at the UO more than once, rather than a one-time course offering. A course that has strong environmental justice, ice, and Pacific Northwest content will also be prioritized over a course with only minimal attention to these topics. Priority will also be given to a course that offers innovative pedagogy and interdisciplinary approaches. The proposed course must be taught by Fall 2023.

Award Details

The course development grant provides a $4,500 stipend to the instructor and covers the associated OPE. The award will be paid in two equal installments: first, at the outset of course development (in summer 2022); and, second, at the beginning of the term when the course is first offered.

Application Deadline: May 20, 2022

Application Instructions

To apply, email the following materials to Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu):

  • Cover Letter that provides (1) your contact information, (2) course specifics including proposed course number, title, and expected enrollment; (3) timing of when you will first teach the course (term/year) and frequency of course offering thereafter; (4) course approval status, or steps required for approval, to assure the course can be taught as proposed
  • Course Overview explaining: (1) the course rationale, objectives, and topics; (2) any pedagogical innovations; (3) course plans including potential readings, assignments, topics to cover, etc.; and (4) ways the course addresses ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest
  • Department/Unit Head Approval: finalists will be asked to have their unit head confirm that the course offering and plan for continued teaching align with unit-level approvals and planning

Questions: For questions about the award and process, contact Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu), who runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society and is based in the Environmental Studies Program and Geography Department. Funding for this course development grant comes from his “Ice, Society, and Climate Justice” dimension of the Mellon “Just Futures” grant.

Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards

Call for Applications (deadline May 11, 2022)

 

Summer 2022

Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards

 

Overview

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for undergraduate students at any level to design and conduct full-time Summer 2022 humanities-oriented research on topics related to ice, climate, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia).

 

Glaciers are of course icons of climate change. But they also play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, hydropower, alpine recreation, conservation, coastal and marine ecosystems, water supplies, public lands management, livelihoods, identities, and food security. Proposed research could focus on any of these topics, and many others, as long as it is connected to ice, the humanities, and environmental justice.

 

The goal of these Research Awards is to help students develop, conduct, and finish a research project. Ideally, the research proposal will be created with guidance from a faculty mentor. However, if you have a project idea, but not a faculty mentor, then contact Professor Carey who runs the UO Glacier Lab to help.

 

An exciting component of this Research Award is completion of a final product by the end of Summer 2022. There is flexibility in these final products. Most students will choose to write a research paper. But others may decide to develop a museum exhibit, or an art installation, or a studio project, or to publish a journalism article. Options are endless but must be agreed upon with your faculty mentor at the outset, so expectations and goals are transparent.

 

Eligibility Criteria

  • Projects may come from any discipline but should be connected to the humanities, environmental justice, and ice/climate
  • Applicants must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2022
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants may not be paid to conduct research through other internal UO research support programs during Summer 2022, though they may have academic-year support
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if the research involves work with human subjects

 

Award Expectations

  • Commit full-time effort to conducting research during Summer 2022
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2022
  • Complete a research paper or agreed-upon final product (exhibit, studio, art, etc.) by the end of Summer 2022
  • Meet with the other award winner and Professor Carey at least 3 times during the summer
  • Share the results of the research project at the May 2023 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work resulting from the Summer 2022 research
  • Notify Professor Carey of any publications, public exhibits, or conference presentations resulting from the research project

 

Award Details

This Research Award provides $4,000 during the Summer of 2022. The award will be paid out in two equal installments, one at the end of Week 5 and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research paper/product has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

 

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

 

Application Procedures

Submit an application with the following components:

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter must also include a statement affirming that you meet eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project description in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to ice, humanities, and environmental justice; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll produce and your plan for completing it during summer
  • a resume
  • a letter of recommendation from your faculty mentor, which should include their commitment to mentor your project during Summer 2022

 

Application Deadline: May 11, 2022

 

Application Submission

Submit applications to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Faculty mentors should also send their letters of support directly to Mark Carey.

 

Questions

Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

New Course Development Grants for Ice & Environmental Justice

Call for Applications

Course Development Grants for New Courses Related to Ice and Environmental Justice in the Pacific Northwest

If you’re thinking about developing a new course related to environmental justice—and particularly if it connects to the Pacific Northwest and to snow, ice, glaciers, or glacier-fed waterways—then consider applying for a new course development grant ($4,500 stipend plus OPE). Three of these grants are available thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

The goal of this larger Mellon “Pacific Northwest Just Futures” grant is to advance research and education on social and environmental justice issues in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia). There are many ways to bring these issues into new courses, and instructors from all disciplines, in all units, and all UO colleges are eligible to apply. Environmental justice courses related to ice could go in many different directions. Arctic residents including in Alaska rely on thinning sea ice for their homelands, hunting, fishing, transportation, cultural identity, and everything. Permafrost thawing is forcing some coastal communities to relocate and affecting vital infrastructure. Shrinking glaciers in Oregon and Washington play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, Tribal rights and treaties, hydropower, alpine recreation, coastal and marine ecosystems, public lands management, livelihoods and economies, identities, and food security.

Proposed new courses could focus on any of these topics and ice types (sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, permafrost, snow), and many others, as long as courses are connected to ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest. A new course in environmental ethics could include substantive new content on the Pacific Northwest and/or the cryosphere, while a new Earth Sciences course on hazards could add an environmental justice component, or a Law School course on water in the Northwest could bring in glaciers that feed those waterways, or an Indigenous environmental studies course could increase new content on environmental hazards and justice in Oregon.

There are three $4,500 course development grants available during the next two years, so depending on the number of funded courses in this round, there may be another call for applications next year.

Eligibility and Priorities

These course development grants are designed to help instructors create new courses. All UO instructors and faculty are eligible—from any unit, discipline, department, or college. Anyone who teaches their own courses can apply. Priority will be given to courses that will likely be taught at the UO more than once, rather than one-time course offerings. Courses that have strong environmental justice, ice, and Pacific Northwest content will also be prioritized over courses with only minimal attention to these topics. Priority will also be given to courses that offer innovative pedagogy and interdisciplinary approaches. Proposed courses must be taught within the next two academic years.

Award Details

The course development grant provides a $4,500 stipend to the instructor and covers the associated OPE. The award will be paid in two equal installments: first, at the outset of course development (for this round, in summer 2021); and, second, at the beginning of the term when the course is first offered.

Application Deadline: May 19, 2021

Application Instructions

To apply, email the following materials to Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu):

  • Cover Letter that provides (1) your contact information, (2) course specifics including proposed course number, title, and expected enrollment; (3) timing of when you will first teach the course (term/year) and frequency of course offering thereafter; (4) course approval status, or steps required for approval, to assure the course can be taught as proposed
  • Course Overview explaining: (1) the course rationale, objectives, and topics; (2) any pedagogical innovations; (3) course plans including potential readings, assignments, topics to cover, etc.; and (4) ways the course addresses ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest
  • Department/Unit Head Approval: finalists will be asked to have their unit head confirm that the course offering and plan for continued teaching align with unit-level approvals and planning

Questions: For questions about the award and process, contact Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu), who runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society and is based in the Clark Honors College and Environmental Studies Program. Funding for these three course development grants comes from his “Ice, Society, and Climate Justice” dimension of the Mellon “Just Futures” grant.

Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards

Call for Applications

Summer 2021

Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards

 

Overview

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Honors College/Environmental Studies Program) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for University of Oregon undergraduate students at any level to design and conduct full-time Summer 2021 humanities-oriented research on topics related to ice, climate, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia).

Environmental justice research on ice could go in many different directions. Arctic residents including in Alaska rely on thinning sea ice for their homelands, hunting, fishing, transportation, cultural identity, and everything. Permafrost thawing is forcing some coastal communities to relocate and affecting vital infrastructure. Shrinking glaciers play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, hydropower, alpine recreation, conservation, coastal and marine ecosystems, water supplies, public lands management, livelihoods, identities, and food security. Proposed research could focus on any of these topics and ice types (sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, permafrost, snow), and many others, as long as it is connected to ice, the humanities, and environmental justice.

The goal of these Research Awards is to help students develop, conduct, and finish a research project. Ideally, the research proposal will be created with guidance from a faculty mentor. However, if you have a project idea, but not a faculty mentor, then contact Professor Carey to help. An exciting component of this Research Award is completion of a final product by the end of Summer 2021. There is flexibility in these final products. Most students will choose to write a research paper. But others may decide to develop a museum exhibit, or an art installation, or a studio project. Options are endless but must be agreed upon with your faculty mentor at the outset, so expectations and goals are transparent.

 

Eligibility Criteria

  • Projects may come from any discipline but should be connected to the humanities, environmental justice, and ice/climate
  • Applicants must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2021
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants may not be paid to conduct research through other internal UO research support programs during Summer 2021, though they may have academic-year support
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if the research involves work with human subjects

 

Award Expectations

  • Commit full-time effort to conducting research during Summer 2021
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2021
  • Complete a research paper or agreed-upon final product (exhibit, studio, art, etc.) by the end of Summer 2021
  • Meet with the other award winner and Professor Carey at least 3 times during the summer
  • Share the results of the research project at the May 2022 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work resulting from the Summer 2021 research
  • Notify Professor Carey of any publications, public exhibits, or conference presentations resulting from the research project

 

Award Details

This Research Award provides $4,000 during the Summer of 2021. The award will be paid out in two equal installments, one at the end of Week 5 and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research paper/product has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

 

Application Procedures

Submit an application with the following components:

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter should also include a statement affirming that you meet eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project description in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to ice, humanities, and environmental justice; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll produce and your plan for completing it during summer
  • a resume
  • a letter of recommendation from your faculty mentor, which should include their commitment to mentor your project during Summer 2021

 

 

Application Deadline: May 7, 2021

 

 

Application Submission

Submit applications to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Faculty mentors should also send their letters of support directly to Mark Carey.

 

Questions

Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

 

 

New Postdoc Position in Ice, Society, & Resilience

Ilulissat Icefjord, Aug. 2019. Photo by Mark Carey.

Thanks to a new $156,226 grant from the University of Oregon that Dave Sutherland (Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies) and Mark Carey (Environmental Studies, Honors College) have received from the Resilience Initiative Seed Funding Program, Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation, they are able to fund a new postdoctoral fellowship as part of their collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on “Resilience, ice and society: Probing the timescales of human interactions with cryospheric change.”

Postdoc Description. This University of Oregon funded project aims to explore glacier fluctuations from both a physical science perspective and societal lens. What is the impact of cryospheric change and ice loss on local communities in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska region? How do we reconcile the long-term trends in glacier change with observed short-term variations, and how do the short-term changes affect various social groups differently? To make progress on these questions, this project will develop a more nuanced, time-focused approach to glacier change, examining the impacts of ice change on various marine and land-based ecosystems, as well as analyze how different human communities and individuals are affected by the timing of specific changes in socio-cryospheric systems across the greater Northwest region. The project is jointly led by a physical scientist (Dave Sutherland) and social scientist (Mark Carey), who will both co-mentor the postdoctoral fellow for this integrated, interdisciplinary research.

Position details. This is a two-year position to begin as early as Summer 2020. The salary is $50,004 per year (plus benefits, such as health insurance), with an additional $2,000 per year in research funds provided.

Review of applications will begin on February 17, 2020.

Click here for application instructions and the full position advertisement.