Funding Opportunity: Conference Travel Grants for Early Career Researchers

Travel awards to attend and present polar-related work at a conference are open to polar early career scientists and educators. In this fall 2024 funding cycle, the PSECCO will be distributing $5,000 of awards. Applicants may request a reasonable amount of funding to support their travel to/from a conference, up to a value of $900 per person, with awards aimed at those with demonstrated financial need. An additional $100 is available for awardees who organize a PSECCO social event at the conference.

To be eligible for funding, applicants must:

- Be an early career scientist (undergraduate to seven years beyond your terminal degree) OR be a currently practicing K-12 or informal educator,
- Be based in the United States and affiliated with a U.S.-based institution,
- Do polar-related research or educate about the polar regions,
- Have demonstrated financial need, and
- Be attending a conference taking place after 1 October 2024 and before 1 May 2025.

PSECCO will open another round of conference travel funding in the spring of 2025.

Application deadline: 20 September 2024, 9:59 p.m. Alaska Time

Click here for more information and to apply.

For questions, contact:
Mariama Dryák-Vallies, PSECCO
Email: psecco@colorado.edu