Anthropology Professor Russ Ciochon receives Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research grant for summer fieldwork

Monday, April 20, 2015

Russ Ciochon
Russ Ciochon

University of Iowa Professor Russ Ciochon has received an internal $30,000 grant from the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research for his proposal, “Early Hominins and Pleistocene Climate in Southern Wallacea”.

Ciochon is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The grant will support his expedition to Timor and Sumba this summer for fieldwork. The grant will be combined with funding from the Gordon Getty Foundation, awarded in 2013 to Ciochon and co-researcher Gregg Gunnell of Duke University.

Ciochon and Gunnell will use these two grants as seed money for future funding. They plan to use the data collected this summer to prepare a National Science Foundation grant proposal in 2016, supporting future fieldwork in Island Southeast Asia.

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