In 2004, with the inception of the award, 4 recipients were chosen to recieve $500 each toward their travel expenses (which must be matched by the recipient's advisor) to attend conferences or workshops where they would be presenting or actively participating. Following the initial 4 awards in the first year, the award was to be given to only one or two applicants per academic year, as selected by the award committee.
In 2004 our recipients were:
Damian Kawakami (Advisor Roger Arndt), to present a paper entitled, "Periodicity of Sheet Cloud Cavitation", at the 57th annual meeting of the Division of Fluid Mechanics of the American Physical Society (APS), in Seattle Washington, November 21 - 23, 2004.
Wonsuck Kim (Advisor Chris Paola), to present a paper entitled, "Autogenic Shoreline Responses to Fluvial Change", at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, in San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 2004.
Ben Sheets (Advisor Chris Paola) to present a paper entitled, "Multi-storey Architechture and Sedimentation in an Experimental Alluvial System", at the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting of Sedimentology, in Coimbra, Portugal, on September 15-17, 2004.
Lisa Tilman (Advisor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou), to present a paper entitled, "Scaling of Hydrologic Parameters of Braided Rivers", at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, in in San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 2004.
In 2005, our recipient was:
Ben O'Connor (Advisor Miki Hondzo), to present a paper entitled, "Quantity-activity of Dentifying Bacteria and Nitrate Variability in Streams", at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meeting, in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-25, 2005.
2006:
James Robert Stoll (Advisor Fernando Porte-Agel), to give an oral presentation entitled,"Surface Heterogeneity Effects on Regional Scale Fluxes in stable Boundary Layers: An LES Study", in the atmospheric sciences program session on 'Basic Studies on Turbulence in Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers', at the 2006 European Geoscience Union General Assembly, in Vienna, Austria, April 2-7, 2006.
2007:
Feng Wan (Advisor Fernando Porte-Agel), to give an oral presentation entitled, "Evaluation of Dynamic Subgrid-scale Models in Large-eddy simulations of Neutral Turbulent Flow over a Two-dimensional Sinusoidal Hill", in the atmospheric sciences session on 'Basic Studies on Turbulence in Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers', at the 2007 European General Science Union General Assembly, in Vienna, Austria, April 15-20, 2007.
2008:
Omar Abdul Aziz (Advisors John Gulliver, Bruce Wilson, & Omid Mohseni), to present a paper at the ASCE EWRI Conference, in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 13-16, 2008.
Chandana Gangodagemage (Advisor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou), to present a paper entitled, "New Scaling Considerations in River Basins: combining drainage path geometry and link lengths" (web link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/
2009:
No travel award given.
2010:
Arvind Singh (Advisor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou), to present a paper entitled, "Complexity and Multi-scale Dynamics of Migrating Dunes under Varying Flow Conditions", at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2010 at Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010
Anwar Chengala (Advisor Miki Hondzo), to participate in the West Coast Algae workshop conducted by the West Coast Chapter of the National Algae Association in Las Vegas Nevada, USA, on February 25th and 26th, 2010.
2011, Spring:
Corey Markfort (Advisors Heinz G. Stefan & Fernando Porté-Agel), to present a paper entitled, “Effect of porosity on ABL evolution over a canopy patch in a stable atmosphere: a wind tunnel study”, in the program session on Air-Sea Interactions at the 2011 European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria from 3-8 April 2011.
2011, Fall:
Shahram ("Shane") Missaghi (Advisor Miki Hondzo), present a research paper entitled, “3D water quality modeling of a morphologically complex lake, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, and examples of model applications” on December 12, 2011, at the 2011 International Congress on Modeling and Simulation in Perth, Western Australia.
Bereket Yohannes (Advisor Kimberly Hill), to make an oral presentation entitled, "Boundary Stresses due to Impacts from Dry Granular Flows", in the 'Geophysical Mass Flows: Field Data, Physical Models, and Simulations I' session at the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union held in San Francisco, USA, December 5-9, 2011.
