GWS News

GWS Life Member Francis P. McManamon, executive director of the Center for Digital Antiquity, will be co-principal investigator for a recently announced grant of US$1.2M from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Center and to develop and expand the Digital Archaeological Record.  The center, based at Arizona State University, ensures access to archaeological data that otherwise may be lost.  The ASU press release announcing the grant follows:

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Since 1968, the Trumpeter Swan Society (www.trumpeterswansociety.org) has worked to restore populations of this magnificent bird, which teetered on the brink of extinction in the Lower 48 states in the 1930s.  George Melendez Wright played a key role in making sure the species was not extirpated from the Greater Yellowstone Area, one of its last strongholds.  He brought attention to and fought against illegal shooting of the birds, and also successfully advocated for the creation of a national wildlife refuge in the Red Rock Lakes area of Montana.  These efforts helped turn t Read more

Park Break is an all-expenses-paid, park-based field seminar for graduate students contemplating a career in park and land-use management or related research and education fields. Park Break puts you in a national park unit for a week's worth of field and classroom activities in close collaboration with scientists and scholars, managers and administrators, and partner organizations.  As a member of small team of grad students, you will work on a specific topic or project of relevance to the park. Read more