InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program As part of InterRidge’s mission to promote international, collaborative, and interdisciplinary studies of oceanic spreading centers, we invite proposals for InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships of up to $5000 US each. These new Fellowships are designed to encourage international collaboration on any aspect of ridge-crest science by graduate students or postdoctoral researchers, fostering long-standing partnerships for their future careers. These Fellowships can be used for any field of ridge-crest science. In particular these awards are encouraged to be used for international cruise participation, international laboratory use, and adding an international dimension to the Fellow’s research. We expect to offer a total of three Fellowships in 2009. One of the Fellowships, funded by InterRidge, is open to a graduate student or postdoc from any nation. The remaining two Fellowships are funded by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Endowment Fund, with the requirement that the graduate student or postdoc is either from a developing country or will assist in training those of a developing country. The ISA Endowment Fund is a new program for collaborative marine scientific research, with details and brochure available at: http://www.isa.org.jm/en/efund/. The mission of the ISA Endowment Fund is to support the participation of qualified scientists and technical personnel from developing countries in marine research activities and to provide opportunities for collaboration by these persons. For more information on the partnership with the ISA for the InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, please see: http://www.interridge.org/isapartnership.
Call for proposals:
InterRidge Fellows:
2010, Shinsuke Kawagucci, Baby Divya and Akumbom Vishiti
2009, Susan Lang and Surya Prakash
2008, Michelle Harris and Kerry Howard
IR Fellows are featured on our website (for example, see: http://www.interridge.org/node/5564) and in the annual InterRidge News (http://www.interridge.org/IRNewsletter).
