Ali Bramson and Kelly Miller have been announced as recipients of funds from the 2015 Curson Travel Scholarship.

Ali is a fourth-year graduate student working with Associate Professor Shane Byrne. She plans to use the funds to support participation in a two-week summer field campaign in Iceland, followed by the fall 2015 HiRISE camera team meeting to be held in Lake Myvatn, Iceland. The field work is part of a Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Surfaces campaign intended to fulfill science objectives of Assistant Professor Christopher Hamilton's NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics grant.

Kellly Miller is a fifth-year graduate student advised by Professor Dante Lauretta. Her Curson award will help to fund travel to the Solar System Origins Gordon Research Conference (GRC), to be held June 28 to July 3, at Mount Holyoke College. The topic of the GRC, which is intended as a scientific conference with limited participation, is "The Physics and Chemistry of Building Planets: Recent Advances and Future Prospects." Kelly will present a poster and work with colleagues in the planetary formation community.

We'll report on the summer travel and research in the LPL Fall Newsletter!