USDA
National Research Initiative
http://www.reeusda.gov/nri/
Biology Sub-disciplines
Behavior
·
Animal Behavior Society: support for student research
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Grants/. Scroll down to "ABS
Student Research Grants" on left sidebar -- links to titles
and authors and authors' advisors for current and past applications.
Botany
·
Garden
Club of America – several grants, including some targeted at students
in Ohio and nearby states .http://www.gcamerica.org/
·
National Garden Clubs Inc. Scholarship Chairman Renee
D. Blaschke 307 Garwood St. Smithville Texas 78957-1504 (in 2003-2004))
·
Garden Club of Ohio (The Garden Club of Ohio Inc.
Scholarship Chairman Mrs. Margaret Bertin, 530 Mapleview Dr. Seven
Hills, Ohio 44131
·
New England Botanical Club Graduate student Research
Award
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/nebc/Graduate.html
·
Botanical
Society of America’s Karling Award for best student research:
http://announce.botany.org/karling2002.html
·
Native
Plant Conservation Initiative (http://www.nfwf.org/programs/npci.htm)
Sponsored by The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in partnership
with the Plant Conservation Alliance.
Ecology
·
Minority Environmental Leadership
Development Initiative
http://www.umich.edu/~meldi. Environmentally-oriented listing
of hundreds of fellowships, job announcements, internships, grant
opportunities, etc. (If this link doesn't work, try the old address
http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/meldi)
·
Funding Sources in WIldlife, Zoology, and Ecology:
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ckwillia/Funding%20Sources.htm
·
Ohio Environmental Science & Environmental Engineering
Undergraduate Scholarship Program
http://www.ohiosci.org/OESEESCHOLARSHIPS.htm
·
Applied Ecology (a major consulting firm) sponsors grants to
student research (pure or applied) up to $2,500/year, and up to
3 years per student. Due date is Jan 1.
http://www.appliedeco.com/GrantProgram.cfm
·
Simbiota List of potential Funding Sources for Neotropical
Field Biologists and Conservationists
http://wildlife.wisc.edu/simbiota/s-list.htm
·
Also see Native Plant Conservation Initiative under
"Botany" above, for work on plant-pollinator interactions
Herpetology
·
http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Scott/Studentresources.html - Keogh
Lab (Australia) lists many resources
·
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Gaige Grant to Students
http://199.245.200.110/awards/gaige2.html
Ichthyology
·
American Society of Ichtylogists and Herpetologists
Gaige Grant to Students
http://199.245.200.110/awards/gaige2.html
Invertebrates
·
American Arachnological Society grants::
http://www.americanarachnology.org/arachnology_res_fund.html
Ornithology
·
BIRDNET sources: a LONG list of
links to funding sources for ornithological research (and probably
more) including plenty of student support at:
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/Grants/deadline.html
·
American Ornithologists' Union: student research awards;
$1,800 max.;
http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/AOU-ResAward.htm
·
American Museum of Natural History: Frank M. Chapman Memorial
Grants support and foster research in ornithology, for anyone
including grad students;
http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html (scroll down
to Chapman). Due November 15 each year; awards announced in March
Medical and related biology
·
Grant opportunities in angiogenesis and related areas.
http://www.angio.org/researcher/grant/grant.html
·
NIH Research and training programs.
http://grants.nih.gov/training/extramural.htm
American Heart Association with info
on Predoctoral Fellowships.http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=9713
is a link to
Systematics
·
Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Awards
http://systbiol.org/info/awards.html
Miscellaneous
· Ohio
Biological Survey small grants program:
http://www.msj.edu/cicada/obs/
·
Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research – provide financial
assistance to highly qualified persons starting careers in marine
zoology. Support is limited to projects dealing with systematics,
evolution, ecology and field-oriented behavioral studies of marine
animals. Awards are not made to support research in botany and biochemistry.
Deadline Applications on prescribed
forms must be postmarked by March 15; awards are announced
in mid-May.
http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html
·
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants research
on North American fauna in any phase of wildlife conservation or
natural history related to the activities of the American Museum.
Deadline Applications on prescribed
forms must be postmarked by February 15; awards are announced
March 1.
http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html
·
Collection Study Grants provide financial assistance
to enable predoctoral and recent postdoctoral investigators to study
any of the scientific collections at the American Museum. These
collections are in Anthropology, Astrophysics, Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Entomology, Herpetology and Ichthyology, Invertebrates,
Mammalogy, Ornithology, Vertebrate Paleontology.
http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html
·
Funding Sources in WIldlife, Zoology, and Ecology:
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ckwillia/Funding%20Sources.htm
Contributors: Lauchlan Fraser, Amy Milsted, Randy Mitchell,
Paco Moore, Scott Orcutt, Brian Patrick, Ron Salisbury,
December 03, 2003
RJ Mitchel