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GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE TRAVEL AWARDS

The U.S. National Science Foundation provided SCB with US$15,000 to help 15 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows defray the costs of attending and presenting their research at the 1998 SCB meeting. Travel awards contributed to the scientific and conservation training of the recipients and the development of the SCB as an international conservation society.

Over fifty applications were received. A committee of three scientists judged the applications on the basis of five criteria: (1) significance of the conservation biology issue addressed, (2) quality of the research design and analysis, (3) evidence of application of the research to problem solving, (4) written organization and data presentation, and (5) merit and feasibility of the applicant's rationale for why participation in the meeting would disseminate results, enhance networking for science, and/or benefit the science component of their local SCB chapter.

Presentations ranged from the molecular level, to whole organisms, to policy implications of the science. Recipients emphasized the value of communicating with numerous scientists conducting similar research in other regions. These interactions led to exchanges of data, initiation of joint field studies outside the United States, and invitations to apply for postdoctoral and similar research positions. Several awardees noted that exposure to the range of conservation issues presented at the meeting gave them ideas for new research directions and provided them with examples and case studies for teaching. Contact between award recipients and other conference attendees also led to interest in chartering new SCB chapters in Asia. The SCB/NSF travel awards commitment not only renewed the commitment of individual scientists to the goals of the SCB, but also helped the SCB achieve its more comprehensive goal of international collaboration.

Travel awards were received by

Satie Airame, University of Chicago
Britta Bierwagen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Susan Daniels, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Erica Fleishman, Stanford University
Elaine Harding, University of California, Santa Cruz
Patrick Hart, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Joseph Kiesecker, Yale University
Tim Kim, Arizona State University
Kimberly Norris, University of Tennessee
Oliver Pergrams, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jules Reinhart, University of California, Berkeley
Jon Paul Rodriguez, Princeton University
Eleanor Steinberg, University of Washington
Brad Stith, University of Florida
David Stokes, University of Washington

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