The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) has a bi-annual Student Awards program, whereby the successful candidate from each IGS Chapter is invited and sponsored to attend one of the two IGS regional conferences in 2004, i.e., EuroGeo3 and or GeoAsia 2004. The IGS Student Award is for an amount of US$1 000 per chapter, which is to be used to cover conference participation costs (i.e., registration fees, travel, accommodation etc). GIGSA will contribute a matching amount of US$1 000 to the successful candidate. The award recipient is expected to submit a written report on the regional conference within 30 days of attending the conference.
GIGSA would therefore like to select a suitable candidate to represent the South African Chapter of the IGS at one of the regional conferences in 2004.
Criteria for selection are the following: 1) The candidate should be preferably be an MSc or PhD student involved in geosynthetics.
2) The candidate must not be older than 35 years of age in 2004.
3) The candidate should be interested and actively involved in the science of
geosynthetics.
4) The candidate must be a paid up member of GIGSA.
Nominations are now invited from suitable candidates for the IGS Student Award.
Nominations are to be submitted together with a written motivation not exceeding one A4 page to the President of GIGSA by close of business on Monday 1 December 2003.
Selection of the successful candidate for the award will be carried out by the GIGSA Committee during December 2003. The decision of the GIGSA Committee will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into thereafter. The IGS will be notified of the name of the award recipient nominee before 31 January 2004.

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