Geography graduate student Beth Cowan recognized for excellence
Over the past couple of months Beth Cowan (BSc Dalhousie, 2012), a second-year MSc student in Geography at ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University, has been earning awards for her hard work and creativity. During the summer she learnt that she is the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ recipient for 2013/14 of the Geological Association of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship in Environmental Science. In August she won the Jean-Claude Dionne Award of the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG) for the best student oral presentation at the CGRG-sponsored special session on Coastal Dynamics at the Canadian Association of Geographer’s annual meeting in St. John’s. Her presentation, titled Evidence for the submerged postglacial sea-level lowstand off eastern Baffin Island, Nunavut, focused on the preliminary results of her MSc thesis research. In early September, Beth was awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship from NSERC for 2013/14.
Photo of the CGRG award from Don Forbes