Garry McKenzie & Henry Brecher Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship

Special Note:  The Byrd Center is eternally grateful for all donors to this scholarship.  We fondly remember and are thankful to Henry Brecher who passed away this summer.  Each year this scholarship has been given Henry always made sure every student who applied received funding.  Thank you, Henry!  08/22/24

Attention UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS working with Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center scientists. You are encouraged to apply for research support from the G. McKenzie & H. Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Fund. The funds are to be used in support of your undergraduate research and may include travel/registration expenses to meetings to present research, laboratory supplies, publication costs, future fieldwork, and/or other anticipated research related expenses.

Applications must be submitted electronically via email. Use subject line of:  G. McKenzie & H. Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Fund and send applications to: byrd-contact@osu.edu

Applications are due by Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.  Scholarship award notifications will be made the first two weeks of October 2024. Applications must include: (1) a one-page description of the project (please include a title), (2) a brief detailed budget, and (3) a letter of endorsement from the Byrd Center member with whom you are working. Please include your contact information within your proposal (email address, phone number and advisor's name). Requests can be in the amount of $700.00 or less.  Recipient(s) will be selected by a 3-member committee.

Please contact Michele Cook with questions at cook.942@osu.edu.

Updated 8/22/2024

Past Recipients

2024:

  • Melody Green (School of Earth Sciences), The impact of climate change on scenic rivers in Ohio

2022:

  • Abby Dietrich (Chemical Engineering), Exploring Chemical and Hydrological Relationships in Rivers Draining Peatlands in Northwest Ireland
  • Ashley Kuhn (Geography) and Kendyl Trem (Environmental Science), Isotope Analysis of Water Samples from Great Basin National Park
  • Maria Scaccia (Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology), The Flow of Carbon in Response to Water Table Fluctuations and Flooding
  • Kyle Shoen (Earth Sciences, Hydrogeology), Field Experiments to Groundtruth Relationships between Seismic Signals and Sediment Transport in High-latitude Rivers
  • Savannah Stearmer (English), Byrd Center Flag Project

2021:

  • Chance Carafice (Engineering Physics), Mountain Drone Team Bofedales Drone Development
  • Mia Rankin (Earth Sciences), Impermeable Surface Runoff into the Olentangy River at The Ohio State University

2020:

2019:

2018:

  • Kira Harris (SES), Geomorphic and Sedimentological Controls on Hyporheic Flow in an Alpine River
  • Caitlin Monagle (SES), The Geochemistry of Soils from the Namib Desert, Africa
  • James White (Atmospheric Sciences), Preserved Charcoal as a Proxy for Wildfire Activity in Great Basin National Park

2017:

  • Rebecca Anderson (SES), Petrographic Analysis of Metamorphic Rocks from the Choshui River in Taiwan
  • Lillian Kleban (SES), Dissolution Kinetics of Volcanic Ash in Sea Water
  • John-Morgan Manos (GEOG), Annual Surface Elevation of the Lehman Rock Glacier in Great Basin National Park

2014:

  • Scott Aleshire (School of Earth Sciences, Advisor: Terry Wilson)
  • Sean O’Brien (School of Earth Sciences, Advisor: Larry Krissek)

2012:

  • Paul Soltesz (BPRC; Department of Geography, Advisor: Bryan Mark)2011:

2011:

  • Shawn Stone (BPRC; School of Environment and Natural Resources)

2009:

  • Justin Von Bargen (BPRC; School of Earth Sciences)
  • John Volk (School of Earth Sciences)