Since I am still enrolled at UTAS as a student through the end of the year and the examiners have yet to get back to me with their thoughts on the thesis I submitted back in June I applied for the student travel grant for the AGU conference I am attending in December. I just received word that I was approved for the grant. This means I will need to send them a post-trip report as well as receipts; once I do my travel expenses (up to a $1000 US limit) will be refunded. This makes me very, very happy! I do have a budget for conference travel in my funding here, but the less I use of it, the more conferences, overall, I shall be able to attend!