[Coral-List] Wildlife Conservation Society Research Fellowship Program - Next DEadline - March 15.

[McClennen, Caleb]

Please see the following website for information and guidelines for the
Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Research Fellowship Program, which
twice a year accepts applications for international conservation
research from emerging scientists in the field.

Details about the program can be found at:
http://www.wcs.org/international/tcbp/rfp

The next deadline for applications is March 15, 2008.

Thanks,

Caleb 

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Caleb McClennen, Ph.D.

Assistant Director

Global Marine Program

Wildlife Conservation Society

2300 Southern Boulevard

Bronx, NY 10460 USA

T: 718-741-8212

F: 718-364-4275

E: cmcclennen at wcs.org <mailto:cmcclennen at wcs.org> 

skype: calebmcclennen

www.wcs.org/marine

 

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Research Fellowship Program 

Next Deadline: March 15, 2008

Program Overview

The Research Fellowship Program (RFP) is administered by WCS-Global
Conservation's Training & Capacity Building Program and jointly funded
by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP)
<http://conservation.bp.com> .  The RFP is a small grants program
designed to build capacity for the next generation of conservationists
through supporting individual field research projects that have a clear
application to the conservation of threatened wildlife and wildlife
habitat.  We seek projects that are based on sound and innovative
conservation science and that encourage practices in conservation that
can contribute to sustainable development.  Most of the grantees are
professional conservationists from the country of research and/or
post-graduates pursuing a higher degree.

Since its establishment in 1993, the Research Fellowship Program has
been a major international source of small grants to support applied
conservation science.  In 35 application rounds between 1994 and 2007,
over 2,000 proposals totaling a little over $23 million have been
submitted to the program for funding.  Of these, 296 (13%) proposals
totaling over $3 million have been funded.  We received proposals to
conduct research in sites all over the world, funding 121 of 954 (12.7%)
proposals received for Latin America, 76 of 582 (13.1%) for Africa, 82
of 558 (14.7%) for Asia, and 13 of 159 (8.2%) for the marine realm.  

One of the priorities of the RFP has been to help train applied
conservation scientists from developing countries.  Over 41% of the
total funded proposals have come from national conservationists
(conservationists who are citizens of the country where they are
conducting their research).  48% of grants to work in Latin America have
been to nationals, 43% of grants to work in Asia have been to nationals,
and 32% of grants to work in Africa have been to nationals.
Collectively, these young professionals will help to apply field-tested
conservation science to the challenges facing the conservation
community.

Applications

Location The RFP supports marine or terrestrial field research in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America regardless of the nationality of the
applicant.  In addition, the RFP accepts applications from Native
Americans (US) and First Nation Peoples (Canada) who intend to conduct
work on native lands on issues of direct relevance to wildlife.

While all applications to work in Asian, African, and Latin American
countries are considered, CLP funding is restricted to nationals from
the following countries:

Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, China,
Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico,
Pakistan, Russia, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and Venezuela

The RFP does not support research in North America (except as mentioned
above), Australia, New Zealand, Europe or their territories, or Japan.

Grantees The RFP will not limit any eligible individual from applying,
however, most of our grantees are:

*	Professional conservationists from the country of research,
and/or 
*	Post-graduates pursuing a higher degree 

Grants Grants are for up to $25,000  The average grants is $10,500.

Timeline The RFP supports projects for only one year, so preference is
given to discrete, short-term projects.  Projects extending beyond one
year must highlight achievable goals at the end of the year for which
the funding is requested. Proposals are submitted in a standard format
for two annual cycles with deadlines on March 15 and September 15.
Final decisions and awards are usually announced at the end of June (for
the March 15 deadline) and December (for the September 15 deadline) with
funding becoming available in July and January.

Review and Evaluation Proposals are evaluated on a competitive basis by
outside technical reviewers and WCS staff.  Projects are evaluated on
three major criteria:

*	Applicant's potential as a conservation professional:  the
capacity building value of the proposed project. 
*	Relevance to wildlife conservation:  a clear application of the
research results to an important conservation question 
*	Scientific merit and value:  in particular a clearly expressed
research question with appropriate methodology and analysis. 

For more detailed information about the application process please click
on the following link Application Guidelines & Procedures
<http://www.wcs.org/international/tcbp/rfp/rfpapplication> 

Download <http://www.wcs.org/media/file/Factsheet_RFP_070130.pdf>
printer-friendly RFP Factsheet.

 

 

 

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Caleb McClennen, Ph.D.

Assistant Director

Global Marine Program

Wildlife Conservation Society

2300 Southern Boulevard

Bronx, NY 10460 USA

T: 718-741-8212

F: 718-364-4275

E: cmcclennen at wcs.org <mailto:cmcclennen at wcs.org> 

skype: calebmcclennen

www.wcs.org/marine

 

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