$82,000 has been awarded to seven successful applications to the first round of the Event Support and Travel Fund. The Event Support and Travel Fund is one of two funds comprising REANNZ's Capability Build Fund (CBF) – designed to help raise awareness and use of KAREN and advanced networking techniques.

The Event Support and Travel Fund enables New Zealand members to attend national and international events.  It is also available to support the travel of overseas-based leaders in networking technologies to and around New Zealand. 

The successful applications to the fund come from members across the KAREN community, and span fields as diverse as bioinformatics, earthquake engineering, grid computing, and particle physics.

The successful projects and project leaders are:

• e-Science – Dr Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington
• Networks in Geographical Education – Lex Chalmers, University of Waikato
• Earthquake Engineering on KAREN – Jason Ingham, University of Auckland
• NZ-BioGrid – Dr Murray Grigor, University of Auckland
• Access Grid NZ – Nathan Gardiner, HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury
• NZCMS – Dr David Krofcheck, University of Auckland
• Initiating IceCube High Performance and Grid Computing at the University of Canterbury – Dr. Surujhdeo Seunarine, University of Canterbury

 
Check out the second issue of hyphen (due out early March) to read a description of each winning project.