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American Museum of Natural History New York (AMNH)

Field Museum of Natural History Chicago (FMNH)

Natural History Museum London (NHM)
 

Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN): Visiting Fellowship Program 2001/2002

Applications are being sought from those interested in the Visiting Fellowship program at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Up to $1500 (Canadian) will be available to each successful applicant of this collection and research effort.

The Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) is Canada's national natural history museum. Approximately ten million specimens are housed within the new research/collection facility, the Natural Heritage Building, in Aylmer, Quebec. The intention of the Visiting Fellowship Program is to increase researcher access to the resources at the CMN facility, and to add to the value of natural history specimens through enhanced curation. Proposals will be accepted in three general categories,

· Collection-based research.
· Collection enhancement.
· Collaborative research with CMN staff involving use of CMN laboratories.

Awards are up to $1500 each. The funds are to be used to offset the cost of travel and accommodation related to the work at the Museum.
It is expected that each Visiting Fellow will provide a scientific seminar at the Natural Heritage Building on their research interests, and that the CMN will be appropriately acknowledged in all publications that result from the work. These funds are available to university faculty, graduate students, other research scientists and collection managers.

Your proposal must include the following.

Your name, title, organization, e-mail address, postal address, fax and phone numbers, and a clear indication of the name to appear on the Fellowship cheque.
Curriculum vitae and a list of all scientific publications in the last 5 years. Applications from graduate students should also include a letter of recommendation from their supervisor.
A list of names, titles and organizations of any collaborators in this work.
A detailed, concise proposal (no more than 1000 words), including the following.
Identify one of the three proposal categories
A description of the research and if applicable, how it relates to research projects at the CMN
A list of the taxa of interest Expected results (manuscripts, monographs, keys, etc.) and a timetable of when these can be
expected A timetable of completion, including when you expect to be at the Natural Heritage Building (CMN research
building)
A detailed budget including the travel and accommodation costs that the Visiting Fellowship will be used against.

If you wish to discuss your proposal with our Research or Collection staff before submission you can find a full list of Staff at http://www.nature.ca in the Research/Collection Sections of the site; which includes e-mail and phone coordinates. Completed applications can be submitted, preferably by e-mail, to Kieran Shepherd, A/Director of Collection Services, Canadian Museum of Nature, P. O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6P4, Canada .
Deadline for Proposals: September 30, 2001.
Notification to successful applicants: by October 7, 2001

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACMNH)

The Research & Collections branch of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is launching a new grant program (Research Study Grants) to support partial travel and subsistence for students and colleagues conducting research with our collections or with a curator.

The short term grants are offered to conduct research, with emphasis on collections based studies, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The Museum houses a world-class collection of 33 million specimens in its Divisions of Human Studies, Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology, Earth Studies and Botany divisions (please refer to the Museum's web site (www.nhm.org) for further information about the strengths of departmental collections).

Grants partially support travel and subsistence while visiting the Museum, with a maximum award of $1,500. Visits must be first arranged with and approved by a Curator of the Museum.

A description of the proposed research and a budget are required. The successful applicant will have contacted the appropriate museum personnel (including curatorial and collection management staff) regarding the suitability and availability of the collection for proposed research. Applicants are also encouraged to deliver a presentation about their research to the scientific staff of the Museum. A final, one-page report should be sent soon after completion of the visit. Applicants are also required to acknowledge the Research Study Grants in any publication featuring the research conducted at the Museum and to provide to the Museum two reprints (or photocopies) of the publication.

Any national or international researcher (predoctoral and doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows or senior scientists) is eligible for this grant provided that he/she does not reside within daily commuting distance of the Museum. Applications should be submitted electronically. Two application deadlines are set annually (January 31st and June 30th). Announcements will be made in March and September.

For further questions or for mailing correspondence please contact:

Research Study Grants Committee, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.

New Brunswick Museum

GEORGE FREDERIC MATTHEW RESEARCH GRANTS IN GEOLOGY FOR 2001

The New Brunswick Museum is pleased to announce the year 2001 G.F. Matthew Research Grants in Geology. Normally, one grant of $1,000 (CAN) and one of $500 (CAN) is awarded each year. We are trying to advertise the grant primarily via the internet this year. Please feel free to forward this message to your colleagues.

George Frederic Matthew MA, DSc, LLd, FRSC (1837-1923) was a founding member of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, formed in 1862. He
published over two hundred papers on geology, palaeontology and archaeology. Although he maintained his career at the Custom House, he became internationally known for his studies in palaeontology. Much of his collection is now part of the holdings of the New Brunswick Museum. This grant programme recognizes his enormous contribution by supporting field and laboratory work and encourages collections-based research of a museum nature.

Proposals of high quality in the areas of palaeontology, stratigraphy, paleoecology, mineralogy and petrology are invited. All, or most, of any field research must be carried out in New Brunswick.

Research Fellowship - $1000.00 - open to established scientists attached to universities, museums and government agencies, as well as graduate students.

Research Scholarship - $500.00 - open to students only, both graduate and undergraduate.

Application forms available at your department office or write the NBM.
Applicants should send research proposals, accompanied by a detailed budget and application form, by December 31, 2000 to:

Dr. R.F. Miller
Curator of Geology
New Brunswick Museum
277 Douglas Avenue
Saint John, New Brunswick
Canada E2K 1E5
(506) 643-2361

SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET, NRM)

Funds available for short visits via the SYNTHESYS-Programme.

UCMP Berkeley: Sam and Doris Welles Fund

The late Samuel P. Welles, retired museum scientist of the University of California's Museum of Paleontology, left a generous bequest to the Museum to promote research on the Museum's collections, particularly those of Mesozoic vertebrates from the Colorado Plateau and others on which he worked. We issue a call for applications to the Fund, effective through the end of each Summer , with an application deadline of January 15.

Applications to the Sam and Doris Welles Fund

o -- Preference is given to registered students and postdocs, and to those with no other sources of support (especially foreign colleagues).
o -- The Fund emphasizes work on the UCMP's collection of Mesozoic vertebrates of the Colorado Plateau, but applications for other projects in the UCMP collections are also strongly considered, irrespective of age, taxon, or presence of backbone.
o -- The Museum's collections database can be accessed through our website (www.ucmp.berkeley.edu); for questions about specific specimens, please contact Pat Holroyd.
o -- Allowable expenses include travel and lodging. Food and supplies are generally not provided, unless the applicant has no other source of support. Most awards are less than $1000.
o -- Please list other sources of support for your work, as applicable. We like cost-sharing when possible.
o -- To apply, please provide a statement of your proposed research, no longer than a page, including an approximate budget. Please stress the relevance of the UCMP collections to your research, and provide approximate dates of your visit. Send your application to Kevin Padian, Chair of the committee, as an e-mail attachment.
o -- Applications that most closely fulfil the above criteria have the best chance of being funded.

For more information ask Kevin Padian.

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Das Dritte Mittel

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAMMALOGISTS; LIST OF GRANT SOURCES

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