Call for proposals: InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2009 http://www.interridge.org/fellowship All application materials are to be submitted electronically to the InterRidge Coordinator (coordinator@interridge.org) by 31 March 2009.
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/node/5675.
To read about the 2008 InterRidge Student Fellows, please see: http://www.interridge.org/node/5564.
Required Application Materials (see instructions below):
ALL applications:
InterRidge Fellowship Interactive Application Form (IR_Fellow_App_Form.pdf) which includes:
- application summary
- proposal
- curriculum vitae
- budget and justification of required funds
- recommendation letters from the applicant’s advisor and proposed host sponsor.
ONLY for those applications to be considered by the ISA Endowment Fund: Additional documents include:
- ISA Endowment Fund Application Form (ISA_Endowment_Fund_Proposal_Summary_2009.doc)
- any additional CV’s for developing country personnel.
Amount and Duration of Fellowship The amount awarded to each successful applicant will be determined based on the project needs and is up to $5000 US per Fellowship. The Fellowship must be used within 2 years (24 months) from the date the Fellowship is awarded.
Proposal and Application Review Research proposals will be reviewed for scientific merit by two topic-relevant reviewers, one a native- and the other a non-native English speaker. Depending on the number of applications received, each InterRidge Steering Committee Member will review all or a subset of applications (including proposal reviews). All applications will then be ranked together, based on several factors ranging from the quality and expected significance of the work to the Fellowship providing an opportunity that the applicant is otherwise not likely to experience. For the one Fellowship to be funded by InterRidge, final selection will be made by the InterRidge Steering Committee by 15 May 2009. For the applications to be considered for the two Fellowships to be funded by the ISA Endowment Fund, the InterRidge Steering Committee will provide the highest-ranked of these applications to the ISA Endowment Fund Advisory Panel for final selection by June 2009.
Award Reporting Requirements IR Fellows will be featured on our website (for example, see: http://www.interridge.org/node/5564) and in the annual InterRidge News (http://www.interridge.org/IRNewsletter). Fellows will be required to submit one interim progress report and one final report upon completion of the Fellowship.
Note: Fellowships supported by the ISA Endowment Fund will also require a final report from the applicant’s advisor. In addition, four years after the award, InterRidge will request feedback from awardees to provide an assessment of longer-term impacts of the Fellowship.
Download application forms:
- InterRidge Fellowship Interactive Application Form (REQUIRED)
- ISA Endowment Fund Application Form (Only necessary for those applying to the ISA-funded fellowships)
Instructions: InterRidge Fellowship Interactive Application Form
To fill in the Interactive PDF, please use Adobe Acrobat software version 7 or later. You can download the free Adobe Reader software here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Please be sure to click the "Highlight Fields" button in the upper right on the first page to indicate all required entries into the Form. When you have completed your entries into the Form, please use the "Print Form" button on the last page to print a hard copy of your completed application. If you have software to print to PDF, please do so here. Please note that the "Submit by Email" button only sends an XML data file of your entries into the Form. There are 2 options for the "Submit by Email" button: - choose "Desktop Email Application" if you use email software such as Outlook or Thunderbird, or - choose "Internet Email" if you would like to save the XML data file for attaching to an email sent through webmail, for example.
ISA Endowment Fund Application Form This form is a Microsoft Word document. Please contact the InterRidge Coordinator if you need this form in a different format or file type.
Please remember to attach to your application email to the IR Coordinator:
- the Interactive Application Form (XML data file, and PDF if you have software to print to PDF),
- any figures to accompany your proposal,
- your CV.
For those applying to the ISA Endowment Fund fellowships, please also attach to your email to the IR Coordinator:
- your ISA Endowment Fund Application Form,
- any additional CVs.
Thank you, and good luck! Questions? Contact Stace Beaulieu (coordinator@interridge.org)
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