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Funding Opportunities
Below is a mostly grad student curated list of funding opportunities. Lab members, please feel free to add, update, or remove items. Thanks!
The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) at the National Science Founation has a special category of grants called STAR (Special Targeted Awards for Research) Grants. These were formerly the "Small Grants" category. Here's the blurb about STAR grants from the NSF DEB solicitation:
The Division welcomes proposals for STAR (Special Targeted Awards for Research) Grants to the core programs via this solicitation. Projects with total budgets of $400,000 or less may be identified as such with the designation "STAR:" as a prefix to the project title in the full proposal. STAR Grants may address any topic appropriate for DEB core programs and could include a variety of important research activities that entail a narrower scope and/or reduced costs (e.g., analysis of existing data (including NEON data), theoretical research, synthesis projects, fieldwork projects, etc.). The STAR track should not be used predominately for the collection of preliminary data. STAR Grants may be useful for targeted research projects, including ideas initiated by postdoctoral researchers. The project description for STAR Grants is limited to 10 pages. STAR Grant projects will be assessed based on the same merit review criteria as all other proposals. If funds for educational supplements are requested, those can be in addition to the $400,000 funding limit for STAR projects. --- NSF 24-543 DEB Solicitation
- Deadline: September 22 2021
- $2000--$3500 for PhD students in their 3rd+ year
- http://www.evolutionsociety.org/content/society-awards-and-prizes/graduate-research-excellence-grants/rosemary-grant-advanced-award.html
- Deadline: October 20th, 2021
- Grant up to $1,000 and fellowship up to $2,000
- fellowship funds "travel to 'distant' research sites to conduct field work, learn specialized techniques or to use unique equipment or collections"
- https://sicb.org/grants-in-aid-of-research-program-giar/
- https://sicb.org/fellowship-of-graduate-student-travel-fgst/
- Deadline: November 8th, 2021
- "These grants are for collection of preliminary data or to enhance dissertation research (e.g., by visiting additional field collection sites or museums)"
- Up to $2000
- https://www.systbio.org/graduate-student-research-awards.html
- Deadline: Oct 1 and March 15
- Up to $1000
- https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/grants-in-aid
- Deadline: Nov 16; letters due Nov 12
- Up to $5000
- https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research
- Deadline: November 15 (may not happen in 2020)
- Up to $4000
- "These awards are designed to allow SSB members (students, post-docs, and faculty) to spend a summer or semester apprenticed to an expert in a particular taxonomic group or to enhance revisionary taxonomic and systematics research in novel ways. Goals of this award program are to address constraints on our knowledge of undescribed biodiversity, assist in passing on taxonomic expertise before it is lost, increase the number of students with broad training in organismal biology and systematics, and support projects in biodiversity and taxonomy informatics as well as monographic and revisionary taxonomy."
- https://www.systbio.org/mini-arts-awards.html
- Deadline: 1st Friday of December
- $1000
- To fund research pertaining to the amphibians and reptiles of the southwestern United States
- https://herpetologistsleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020Jones-Lovich.pdf
- Deadline: TBA (December)
- Amount: $5,000 - $10,000
- https://www.theaga.org/announcements-and-awards.htm
- Deadline: December 15
- Up to $2500
- https://birminghamaudubon.org/waltercoxe/
- Deadline: Dec 15
- $500
- https://ssarherps.org/ssar-awards/grants-in-herpetology/
- Deadline: 15 Dec
- Up to $1000
- https://herpetologistsleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/eewilliamsgrant2021.pdf
- Deadline: 31 Dec
- Up to $1000
- http://www.chicagoherp.org/index.php?link=grants
- Deadline: 15 Jan
- Up to $500
- For research on reptiles and amphibians native to or naturalized to Virginia
- https://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/grants/vhs_grants_in_herpetology.html
- $2000
- PhD candidacy
- Deadline: Jan 31
- https://www.amnat.org/announcements/AWAStuResearch.html
- £500-£1500 ($666-$2,000)
- Typical activities supported include contributions to fieldwork expenditure, the purchase of scientific equipment or expertise (e.g. buying time on analytical equipment), specimen preparation (including the cost of temporary technical assistance), and contributions to publication costs
- Deadline: February 15, 2021
- https://systass.org/grants-and-awards/srf/
- Questions: LinneSys@systass.org
- Deadline: February 16, 2021
- Pre-doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers
- Research involving North American fauna (anything Central America and up, including Caribbean)
- https://www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/academics-and-research/fellowship-and-grant-opportunities/research-grants-and-graduate-student-exchange-fellowships
- Deadline: March 1
- Up to $1000
- https://asih.org/student-awards/gaige-fund-award}
- Deadline: March 15 at noon Pacific time
- $1500--$2500 for PhD students in first 2 years
- https://www.evolutionsociety.org/content/society-awards-and-prizes/graduate-research-excellence-grants/rc-lewontin-early-award.html
- Deadline: March 30
- Herpetology fieldwork, especially in Missouri
- Up to $1000
- https://ssarherps.org/ssar-awards/dean-metter-memorial-award/
- Deadline: May 4
- $500 to attend SSAR/JMIH meetings
- https://ssarherps.org/ssar-awards/student-travel-award/
- $600 to attend JMIH meeting
- Deadline: May 20
- https://asih.org/student-awards/clark-hubbs-student-travel-awards