Forestry News
Jeremy Stovall was awarded the best graduate student presentation award at the 2008 15th Biennial Southern Silviculture Research Conference (Oct. 17-19, 2008) in Hots Springs, AK.
Jeremy Stovall is a second year PhD student working with Drs. Tom Fox and John Seiler on growth responses of varietal loblolly pine to fertilization. He recently received an Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation Award for his talk at the 15th Biennial Southern Silviculture Research Conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Stovall’s presentation, entitled “Growth response of varietal Pinus taeda following fertilization in the Virginia piedmont” described how fertilizer growth and stem form response differed among varieties in a trial at Virginia Tech’s Reynolds Homestead Forest Resources Research Center. His results will inform testing recommendations for companies that are currently selecting and producing new varieties of loblolly pine for plantation forestry in the southeastern United States. Varietals are currently planted over tens of thousands of acres, and are likely to become increasingly widespread in the coming decade in order to increase yields and plantation uniformity.
Joint Fire Science Program Announced Requests for Applications for Research and Synthesis Proposals. It closes on November 21, 2008. More information about proposal submission packets can be find at http://www.grants.gov Joint Fire Science Program has approximately $6-8 million in available funding.
Announcement about the 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition: The National Science Foundation invites you to apply for the 2009 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) competition. This program offers up to 3 years of graduate school support worth over $120,000 to each awardee - last year 913 awards were granted. Benefits include a $30,000 annual stipend, a $10,500 annual cost of education allowance, a one time $1,000 travel allowance, and access to TeraGrid supercomputing facilities. U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents at or near the beginning of their graduate study seeking research-based Master’s and/or PhD degrees in NSF-supported science (including social science and psychology) and engineering disciplines are eligible to apply. The application process is currently open and closes early November 2008. Visit <http://www.nsf.gov/grfp/> or <http://www.nsfgrfp.org/> for additional information.