CAGONT will provide financial support to students who are attending the Annual Meeting if they are members of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and are enrolled at an Ontario university or other institution of higher learning. To become a Student Member of the CAG, you require the 2013 membership form that is available on the CAG website at:
 http://www.cag-acg.ca/files/pdf/Membership/membership_2013.pdf.

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The CAGONT awards include:

| Service to Ontario Geography Award | Recipients |

| Student Paper Competition Awards | Winners |

| CAGONT/ELDAAG Best Poster Awards | Winners |

Student Presentation, Paper and Poster Awards at CAGONT/ELDAAG 2013

Colleen Middleton, a student in Ryerson University’s Master of Spatial Analysis (MSA) Program received a CAGONT Master’s Presentation award for her paper “The Use of GIS Analysis to Delimit a Protected Area of Old-Growth Red Pine Forest in Wolf Lake, Temagami, Ontario, Canada.” In addition, she also received the Undergraduate Paper Award in the CAGONT student paper competition.

Amber Silver, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo received a CAGONT Ph.D Presentation award for her paper "Now we understand what 'community' really means: Exploring the positive and negative impacts of disaster on place attachments.”

Jerry Jien, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto - Scarborough received the CAGONT Ph.D. Paper Award for his paper “The Influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Eastern North Pacific Basin” and Yukari (Hannah) Hori (also a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto - Scarborough) received the CAGONT Ph.D. Research Paper Award for her paper “Trends in the Duration of Winter Road Season in the Western James Bay Region of Northern Ontario.”

Kinson Leung, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto - Scarborough received the second place Graduate Poster Award in the Joint CAGONT/ELDAAG Poster Competition for his poster “The Influence of Synoptic Weather Conditions on Extreme Ground-level Ozone Events in the Downtown Areas of Toronto and Windsor, Ontario, Canada.”