[Ocees] FW: [Fellows] 2019 Smith Fellows Request for Proposals Announced!

[Popescu, Viorel]

The 2019 David H Smith Conservation Research Fellowship RFP is out... awesome postdoc opportunity

Please distribute widely…

Viorel

Viorel D. Popescu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology
Ohio University, Biological Sciences
423 Irvine Hall
Athens, OH 45701

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From: Viorel Popescu <vioreldpopescu at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2018 1:36 PM
To: Popescu, Viorel <popescu at ohio.edu>
Subject: Fwd: [Fellows] 2018 Smith Fellows Request for Proposals Announced!


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From: Shonda Gilliland Foster <sfoster at conbio.org<mailto:sfoster at conbio.org>>
Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:39 AM
Subject: [Fellows] 2018 Smith Fellows Request for Proposals Announced!
To: Shonda Gilliland Foster <sfoster at conbio.org<mailto:sfoster at conbio.org>>

Please distribute the following (and attached) with your networks and on listservs as far and wide as you see fit! Social media distribution is welcome as well (please tag @smithfellows on Twitter).  A larger announcement will appear on the SCB website shortly! Thanks!

Smith Fellows 2019 Call for Proposals Announced
The Society for Conservation Biology is pleased to solicit applications for the David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Program. These two year postdoctoral fellowships provide support for outstanding early-career scientists who want to better link conservation science and theory with policy and management, improving and expanding their research skills while directing their efforts towards conservation problems of pressing concern for the United States.
Each Fellow proposes a team of at least two mentors: 1. an academic mentor who encourages the Fellow’s continued development as a conservation scientist and 2. a conservation practitioner who connects the Fellow and their research to practical applications. Fellows may be administratively based at either an academic institution or conservation organization, typically the location of either the academic or practitioner mentor. We encourage applicants to explore both options and consider being based at the non-academic institution as that is the world less familiar to most early-career scientists and can provide valuable experience.
Fellows will spend up to three weeks per year during their fellowship attending Program-sponsored professional development retreats each year. These retreats provide opportunities to cultivate skills typically not covered during their academic education including: leadership, communications, professional and funder networks, and to gain better understanding of policy-making and the application of research.
The Smith Fellows Program and its administrative host, the Society for Conservation Biology, are committed to equity, inclusion and diversity and invites individuals who bring a diversity of culture, experience and ideas to apply. We envision that the cadre of scientists supported by the Smith Fellows Program will eventually assume leadership positions across the field of conservation science. Fellows are selected on the basis of innovation, potential for leadership and strength of proposal.
The deadline for receipt of application materials is 7 September 2018. The Program expects to select five Fellows in January 2019 for appointments to start between March and September 2019. Fellowship awards include an annual salary of $55,000, benefits, and generous travel and research budgets.
For detailed proposal guidelines, please visit http://www.conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows/apply/proposal-guidelines.
NEW THIS YEAR: We have launched an online submission platform! No pieces of the application package will be submitted via email as in previous years, including reference letters. Please see the above proposal guidelines to learn more.
Questions may be directed to Shonda Foster, Program Director, by emailing sfoster at conbio.org<mailto:sfoster at conbio.org>.
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