2015 Pathfinder Graduate Research Fellowships The 2015 round of funding for the Pathfinder Graduate Student Fellowships is now open! These grants cover travel to support multi-site or multidisciplinary water science research, with funding up to $5000 for research activities to be conducted in 2016.
As a change from previous years, applications will now be submitted online. Apply no later than Oct 16th, 2015, 5pm ET. Application link: http://proposalspace.com/calls/d/535 If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. General Information Graduate training in water science often focuses on a single field site, analytical or modeling approach. To assist graduate students in enhancing their research program by moving beyond this "one site, one view" approach, CUAHSI will provide travel support for graduate students to make an extended visit (ca. 1 - 3 months) to broaden their research. Travel may be to an additional field site to conduct comparative research, to collaborate with a research group using alternate approaches or modeling methods, or to work with researchers on adding an interdisciplinary dimension to a water science research project. CUAHSI encourages applicants from across the broad range of water science. Preference is given to students advanced enough in their graduate studies to conduct substantive research during the travel period, and to research plans that clearly demonstrate how the travel and collaboration substantially enhances and broadens the student's current research. Examples of Previous Fellowships Some examples of the types of projects that the Pathfinder Fellowships have support in the past are: * Travel to conduct experiments at a site fundamentally different than the fellow's own home research site (an "unrestored" stream vs. a restored stream) to test two different measurement techniques and better understand the impact of stream restoration projects. * Travel to conduct complementary field research and to collect data to better understand global environmental conditions (eg, the study of black carbon in the Arctic as compared to the Antarctic). * Travel to an experimental watershed for a graduate student who was using the data being collected and developing a model for the watershed to see the field data collection, and work directly with the field scientists collecting the data she was using. * Travel to another university to conduct experiments to test hypotheses related to the fellow's thesis work using a sediment lab and equipment not available at his home university, and to work with an expert on sediment transport. For more info and to view previous examples of Pathfinder research: https://www.cuahsi.org/PathfinderFellowships -- Emily Geosling Communications and Outreach Manager Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. 196 Boston Ave, Suite 3000 Medford, MA 02155 P: (339) 221-5400 x204 E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> T: @CUAHSI
