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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The 2019 David H Smith Conservation Research Fellowship RFP is out... awesome postdoc opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Viorel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Viorel D. Popescu, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ohio University, Biological Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Athens, OH 45701<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.vioreldpopescu.com/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">www.vioreldpopescu.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/sustainability-theme"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">www.ohio.edu/sustainability-theme</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Viorel Popescu <vioreldpopescu@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 4, 2018 1:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Popescu, Viorel <popescu@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [Fellows] 2018 Smith Fellows Request for Proposals Announced!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: Shonda Gilliland Foster <<a href="mailto:sfoster@conbio.org">sfoster@conbio.org</a>><br>
Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:39 AM<br>
Subject: [Fellows] 2018 Smith Fellows Request for Proposals Announced!<br>
To: Shonda Gilliland Foster <<a href="mailto:sfoster@conbio.org">sfoster@conbio.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Smith Fellows 2019 Call for Proposals Announced</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1A1A1A">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.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">The deadline for receipt of application materials is
<b>7 September 2018</b>. 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.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">For detailed proposal guidelines, please visit
</span><a href="http://www.conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows/apply/proposal-guidelines" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">http://www.conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows/apply/proposal-guidelines</span></a><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Questions may be directed to Shonda Foster, Program Director, by emailing
</span><a href="mailto:sfoster@conbio.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">sfoster@conbio.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#4F6228">Shonda Gilliland Foster, Program Director </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D">| </span><a href="mailto:sfoster@conbio.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">sfoster@conbio.org</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D">David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D">Society for Conservation Biology </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D"> phone: 1-202-234-4133 x 101</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This listserv provides a platform for the Smith Fellows community and may be used to communicate official Program information and for the fellows to announce opportunities, provide information or request input on any number of items or topics. Per IRS regulations
it may not be used to support any lobbying or electioneering activities as defined in the current Smith Fellows Handbook.<br>
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The David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Program seeks to develop future world leaders and entrepreneurs who are successful at linking conservation science and application.<br>
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