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ATBC 2008 - Travel Award
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2008 Travel Awardee
Travel grants offered by ATBC
Anne Axel (Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University). Lemur-habitat relationships along an ecological gradient in a tropical dry forest in southern Madagascar.
Janette Bulkan (Yale University Forestry and Environmental Studies). Two hundred cabbages is a full day’s work”: participatory development of a management plan for Euterpe oleracea Mart. in Guyana.
Juanita Choo (University of Texas in Austin, Integrative Biology). Impacts of hunter-gatherer settlements on the interactions on seedling recruitment, predation, and dispersal of a culturally important palm.
Fabiana Couto-Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). Comparing restoration ecology methods for future establishment of habitat corridors.
Shalene Jha (University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Colonization of shade coffee agroecosystems: genetic insights into historical seed dispersal processes.
Shawn F. McCracken (Biology, Texas State University/TADPOLE Organization) Does the canopy hold a missing piece of the Amazon rainforest amphibian diversity? New species from a new frontier in Yasuní National Park, Amazonian Ecuador.
Travel grants offered by ATBC2088 Association
Monica Poelchau (University of Georgia, Department of Genetics) Comparative phylogeography of Central American trees: discerning Pliocene and Pleistocene impacts.
Cristina Banks-Leite (University of São Paulo, Department of Ecology) Confounded effects of edge and area on the bird community in the Atlantic forest.
Travel Award for Attending the Annual Meeting
All candidates who wish to be considered for Travel Awards must indicate so on their registration forms. The amount is $3,000 annually, usually as 6 X $500 awards.
Eligibility.-All members of ATBC during the current subscription year are eligible. The number of membership years is not a factor.
Award Criteria. -country of origin (e.g., developed vs. developing) - professional status (e.g., student vs. young professor vs. established researcher) - quality of research described.
The Committee reserves the right to make no award if it deems that no deserving candidates have applied.
To be eligible for the Travel Award, please email a copy of your submitted abstract to Dr Pierre-Michel Forget (atbc2008@yahoo.com), President-elect of the ATBC and Chair of ATBC2008, with 'ATBC Travel Award' in subject.
Deadline : April, 14, 2008
Boats to cross Suriname river at Paramaribo