From a report submitted to the Endowment Committee by David King, Jr., Auburn University.
In the process of completing the manuscript for a general audience book on Wetumpka impact crater, Alabama, which is provisionally titled “Wetumpka impact crater: understanding Alabama’s greatest natural disaster,” the author travelled to Wetumpka impact crater from his office at Auburn University, in order to conduct field work and take photographs for selected chapters in that book manuscript.
Funds were used to defray travel costs of field work (ground-truthing) and field photography needed to complete selected chapters in the book manuscript. Travel costs were paid at a rate of $0.70/mile, in accord with Alabama state travel guidelines.
The public will benefit from the publication of this book because there is no other general audience book about this impact crater. The new Crater Discovery Center in downtown Wetumpka will benefit because the author will contribute the first-year royalties for the book’s sales to that Center, which is operated by the city of Wetumpka.