Matthew Dillon has recently received a two-year EPSCoR graduate student award to conduct his master degree research on the formation of ground ice. Last year, Matthew was awarded the prestigious Flint Hills Undergraduate Research Award. Among the ten awardees, Matthew placed third at the Flint Hills symposium competition. Matthew also presented his results on the microtomography of basal glacier ice at the 2007 Skyscan conference in Belgium, and at the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Anchorage. Matthew was also one of Professor Daniel Fortier's co-authors of papers presented at the 2007 Canadian Quaternary Association Conference in Ottawa, at the First Permafrost Young Researchers Network workshop in St-Petersburg, at the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco and in the coming 2008 Canadian Geophysical Union Conference in Banff. Matthew also has a paper in press about his work on microtomography of basal ice for the 2008 Ninth International Conference on Permafrost.