[Coral-List] WCS Research Fellowship Announcement

[Matthews, Elizabeth]

Dear Coral Listers,

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is pleased to announce this year's Research Fellowship Program. 

 

The WCS Research Fellowship Program (RFP) is a small grants program administered by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Institute which, from 1993 to 2007, funded over 300 proposals totaling more than $3 million. The RFP grants help build research capacity for the next generation of conservation practitioners worldwide. The Program supports individual field research projects that have a clear application to conservation. 

In 2010, the RFP was re-designed and re-launched with a new focus of supporting work directly related to WCS priority land/seascapes, species, and/or the global challenges of wildlife health, climate change, human livelihoods, and natural resource extraction. The Program seeks to support the field work of graduate-level students (Masters, PhD, DVM, or equivalent) who will work with WCS staff in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and in special cases, North America (limited to Native Americans and First Nations, Métis, or Inuit). Collectively, the professionals receiving RFP grants will apply field-tested conservation science to the challenges facing the natural world. 

 

Individuals interested in submitting an RFP application should visit http://programs.wcs.org/grants for eligibility information. The application deadline is January 5, 2011. The maximum award is $20,000. For more information, please email fellowship at wcs.org

 

Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested. Thanks!

 

 

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Elizabeth Matthews, PhD

Assistant Director, Marine Program
Wildlife Conservation Society
2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460

ematthews at wcs.org
www.wcs.org/marine <http://www.wcs.org/marine>