Geography Student Awarded NSF Dissertation Grant

Geography student Jeff Crawford was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. The $12,000 grant was made through the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program and is intended to provide financial assistance for doctoral students to complete fieldwork and purchase necessary equipment for their studies. The grant will allow Crawford to examine the role of indigenous land use on the forest structure and fire regimes of northwestern California over the past 4,000 years.