I got word yesterday that I got two grants from the Virginia Community College System. One is to fund WFA training for our field-trip-leading instructors. The lucky recipients of this training include geologists at NOVA, biologists at NOVA, and geologists and biologists from Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, VA. The second grant helps fund the development of a NOVA-centric Physical Geology lab manual -- my colleague Ken Rasmussen and I will put this together over the summer for use in the fall semester. So, I'm happy: this is good news for pursuing some side projects that I wanted to see happen. However, I also got shut down on another grant proposal: the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation did not see fit to fund my proposed scouting excursion to prepare for next summer's Northern Rockies Regional Field Geology course, which basically means that one's going to be on my own nickel. Oh well: I'll be out west anyhow...

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