The SAGES Graduate School is please to confirm the following student awards for our annual postgraduate members award scheme:

(1) Landscape Dynamics: Georgina King, St Andrews, affiliate student
(2) Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Radoslaw Pajor, University of Abertay affiliate student, and Anna Koza (commendation) , University of Abertay,affiliate student
(3) Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate: Keziah Stott, St Andrews, SAGES-funded student
(4) Society: Rachel Howell, The University of Edinburgh SAGES-funded student
(5) Earth System Dynamics: Oliver Sus, The University of Edinburgh SAGES-funded student

The SAGES Graduate School is pleased to launch a new award scheme that both recognizes and celebrates the achievements of its postgraduate student members. An annual prize will therefore be awarded for the best publication, judged by the SAGES research committee, in each of the following areas:
(1) Landscape Dynamics
(2) Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
(3) Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate
(4) Society
(5) Earth System Dynamics
Entries (pdf) should be submitted to Mrs Stephanie West (stephanie.west@ed.ac.uk) by no later than 1 April 2011. Final decisions will be reached in May 2011 and formal prize awards (including a £100 cheque) will be made at the SAGES annual meeting 2011. At this time we welcome submissions which include any peer-reviewed (journal, book chapter, published conference proceedings) article published between 1 January and 31 December, 2010. All entries received will be cited on the SAGES Graduate School web pages.

SAGES Affiliate student Caroline Clason has been awarded a 12 month scholarship to study abroad at the Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she will undertake the final year of her PhD studies.

SAGES student, Rachel Howell, has just had her paper about published online 'Lights, camera… action? Altered attitudes and behaviour in response to the climate change film The Age of Stupid.' Global Environmental Change. A copy of the paper can be found at Doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.004.

SAGES-affiliated student, Anna Koza, has just had her paper published by Microbiology. This involved some collaborative research with SCRI. 'Anna Koza, Paul D. Hallett, Christina D. Moon and Andrew J. Spiers (2009) Characterization of a novel air­liquid interface biofilm of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25. Microbiology 155, 1397­1406'

The SAGES Graduate School along with the University of Glasgow will be holding a statistics course to be run by Dr. Marian Scott at Glasgow. Click to find out more and a registration form.

The SAGES Graduate School is to offer a Theme 1 PhD Studentship in Landscape Dynamics. Use this link to find out more about the projects and their supervisors.

The SAGES Graduate School held their first retreat 11/12th November in the beautiful surroundings of The Burn in Edzell. Organised by the Theme 2 students, Nancy Burns, Audrey Wayolle, Helen Murray, Oliver Sus and Cheryl Wood, the retreat included overviews of the projects currently being undertaken by all of the PhD students affiliated to SAGES. There was also presentations by the SAGES theme leaders and guest speakers Cambell Gemmell of SEPA and Rob Ellam of SUERC together with a pub quiz and ceilidh on the Tuesday evening. The final day started with a walk along the banks of the River Esk followed by break-out sessions and a talk from Jeremy Upton of the Electronic Thesis Repository at St Andrews.

The SAGES Graduate School will host its 1st Annual Retreat at The Burn from the 11th-12th November. Please download a registration form should you wish to attend.

Dr. Austin is currently developing a 'light touch' annual review of student progress. This years submission deadline is the 12th September and forms will be both circulated and placed on the website in August 2008

Theme 2 students, including Oliver Sus, visited St Andrews on Friday, 11th July, 2008 for an informal meeting. It was decided that Theme 2 students would help run the annual retreat and plans are underway to develop a programme

The Graduate School are pleased to announce that 11 SAGES studentships have been awarded and accepted. Ten of the students will start in September 2008, with one student joining us in January 2009.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. William Austin as Convenor of the SAGES Graduate School.