[Sasnet] Archaeological Geology Division student listserver

[Ellery Frahm]

Colleagues,

For those who do not know me, I am one of the student representatives  
on the Management Board of the Archaeological Geology Division (AGD)  
of the Geological Society of America (GSA).

The current foci of AGD includes recruitment and retainment of  
student members in the division.  The division's meeting last year at  
the GSA conference in Philadelphia reaffirmed this as a central  
goal.  One of the recent tools created for students in archaeological  
geology and geoarchaeology is an on-line database of funding, grants,  
awards, and studentships for graduate students in relevant fields:

http://web.mac.com/elleryfrahm/iWeb/Geoarch/

This funding database has been very well received, and we ask for  
your continued submissions to keep the database up-to-date.  In  
particular, I encourage faculty members to announce studentships on  
this page, which has been viewed over 1600 times within the last  
eight months.

I am writing today, though, to advertise a new listserver for student  
members of AGD.  This listserver is a moderated e-mail-based forum,  
giving the students in the division a way to interact both  
professionally and socially.  Students can get to know one another,  
share information and experience, organize field trips and sessions,  
connect at conferences, sell books, vent frustrations, and talk about  
other subjects subscribers would like to discuss.  Hopefully  
subscribers will find the list both useful and enjoyable.  This came  
about as an excellent suggestion from Laura Murphy at the University  
of Kansas.  For additional information about the listserver,  
including how to subscribe, please visit the site below:

http://web.mac.com/elleryfrahm/iWeb/Geoarchlist

If you are a student, either graduate or undergraduate, interested in  
the earth sciences and archaeology, but you are not a member of GSA  
and/or AGD, please do consider membership so you can gain the  
benefits of membership and contribute to the society and division.   
If you are not yet a student member but are interested in learning  
more or meeting people using the listserver, please feel free to send  
me an email.  You should also check out the division's website:

http://www.geosociety.org/arch/

Also feel free to forward this email to any students who might be  
interested.

Best,
Ellery

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Ellery E. Frahm
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Research Fellow, Department of Geology & Geophysics
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~frah0010/