DRI Awards Jonathan O. Davis Scholarship, Stipend
The Desert Research Institute has awarded the $4,000 Jonathan O. Davis Scholarship in Quaternary Sciences to Deron T. Carter, a graduate student at Central Washington University, to support his thesis research on a late pleistocene flood affecting the Owyhee River in Oregon. Barbara E. Malinky, an anthropology graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno, has won the $1500.00 Jonathan O. Davis research stipend for her graduate research examining pottery artifacts for clues to the mobility of pre-historic groups in eastern Nevada.
DRI scientist Jonathan O. Davis, a prominent geologist and geoarchaeologist, died in an auto accident near Reno in 1990. The memorial scholarship, administered by DRI's Earth and Ecosystems Sciences Center, is open to graduate students enrolled in a M.S. or Ph.D. program at any United States university and supports field research concerning Quaternary geology of the Great Basin or surrounding areas. The stipend is open to graduate students enrolled in a geology-related M.S. or Ph.D. program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
A nonprofit, statewide division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI pursues a full-time program of basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale. Nearly 500 full- and part-time scientists, technicians, and support staff conduct some 150 research projects at DRI annually. More than 85 percent of DRI's annual $37 million operating budget consists of research grants and contracts obtained by its scientists. The balance is received from the state of Nevada for administrative costs.