Society for Conservation Biology Request for Graduate Student Travel Support

本提案寻求从NSF获得15,000美元，以支持15名研究生和博士后参加2002年7月14-19日在英国坎特伯雷的肯特大学举行的保护生物学学会年会。参会人员将根据保护生物学问题的概念意义来选择，所讨论的问题包括：研究设计和分析的质量；研究对环境问题解决的适用性；书面组织和数据展示；申请人的优点和可行性；#8217；S解释为什么她(他)的研究将通过参加英国会议得到显著加强，以及(S)他将如何在返回美国后传播经验成果(例如，通过会议上建立的网络或通过渣打银行的地方分会)。与会者将为2002年11月的SCB通讯共同撰写一篇关于这次会议的文章。

Project SummaryThis proposal seeks $ 15,000 from NSF to support fifteen $ 1,000 graduate student andpostdoctoral travel stipends for participation in the Society for Conservation Biologyannual meeting at the University of Kent in Canterbury, U.K., July 14-19, 2002.Participants will be selected based on the conceptual significance of the conservationbiology issue addressed including: quality of the research design and analysis;applicability of the research to environmental problem solving; written organization anddata presentation; merit and feasibility of the applicant’s rationale for why her(his) research will be substantially enhanced through participation in the U.K. meeting,as well as how (s)he will disseminate results from the experience upon return to the U.S.(e.g., through networks developed at the meeting or through local chapters of the SCB).Participants will co-author an article about the meeting for the November, 2002, SCBNewsletter.