Up to four student travel grants will be awarded to support students attending the annual AFS meeting. Each award will consist of $500 of travel support, and a one year student membership to both the American Fisheries Society and the Marine Fisheries Section.
Recipients must be currently enrolled students (undergraduate, M.S., or Ph.D.) and be presenting a paper or poster on a marine fisheries related topic at the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Student applicants do not need to be members of the American Fisheries Society at the time of application.
Deadline:
Applications for the Annual Meeting are due on June 1 of each year, and successful applicants will be notified by June 20 of each year.
Complete applications should include:
- A letter of interest that includes:
- reasons for wanting to attend the meeting
- statement of need for travel support
- A current resume or curriculum vita (2-page maximum) including a listing of publications, honors, awards and previous presentations.
- The title and abstract of the accepted paper(s) or poster(s).
- Proof of student status (e.g. photocopy of a current transcript or a letter from a major professor).
Applications should be submitted in electronic form with the subject line “MFS Travel Award” in the email. Please submit as a single pdf file. Applications will be reviewed by a committee of Marine Fisheries Section members. Supporting materials (proof of student status) may be mailed. The primary selection criteria are quality and relevance of work as judged by the committee, the breadth of participation at the meeting and demonstrated need.
Applications and question should be directed to:
Dr. Adrian Jordaan
309 Holdsworth Hall
Department of Environmental Conservation
160 Holdsworth Way
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9285
Email: [email protected]
Previous recipients of student travel awards:
| 2023 | Samara Nehemiah | University of Maryland (Center for Environmental Science) |
| Bethany Wager | North Carolina State University | |
| 2022 | Hayley Mapes | California Polytechnic State University |
| Matthew Cheng | University of Alaska Fairbanks | |
| Ryan Tharp | North Carolina State University | |
| 2019 | Rujia Bi | Virginia Tech |
| Maddie Halloran | Humboldt State University | |
| Danielle Goldberg | University of North Carolina | |
| 2018 | Amanda Croteau | University of Florida |
| Kathryn Doering | ||
| Katie Hornick | University of Maryland (Center for Environmental Science) | |
| 2017 | Sarah Borsetti | Rutgers University |
| Megumi Oshima | University of Southern Mississippi | |
| Brendan Runde | North Carolina State University | |
| 2016 | Grant Adams | University of Southern Mississippi |
| Lisa Hollensead | University of North Carolina Wilmington | |
| Mackenzie Mazur | University of Maine | |
| 2015 | Lisa Ailloud | Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
| Aharon Fleury | University of Victoria – B.C. | |
| Jennifer Marsh | University of Alaska – Fairbanks | |
| 2014 | Laura Koehn | University of Washington |
| Owen Nichols | University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth | |
| James Robinson | University of Victoria | |
| 2013 | Chris Holland | Texas A&M |
| Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff | Texas A&M | |
| 2012 | Chelsey Campbell | University of Florida |
| Iris Kemp | University of Washington | |
| Konstantine Rountos | SUNY-Stony Brook | |
| 2011 | Tim Ellis | North Carolina State University |
| Megan Nims | University of Texas Austin | |
| 2010 | ||
| 2009 | Karen Capossela | Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
| James Thorson | Virginia Tech University | |
| 2008 | Joseph Facendola | University of North Carolina, Wilmington |
| Ivan Mateo | University of Rhode Island | |
| Nuno Prista | Old Dominion University | |
| Lynn Waterhouse | Virginia Institute of Marine Science | |
| 2007 | Nathan Bacheler | North Carolina State University |
| Bernice Bediako | University of Maryland, Eastern Shore | |
| William Smith | University of North Carolina, Wilmington | |
| Justine Woodward | Virginia Institute of Marine Science | |
| 2006 | Morgan Bond | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Benjamin Cotti | University of Delaware | |
| Megan Fencil | University of Texas, Austin | |
| Belita Nguluwe | University of Maryland, Eastern Shore | |
| 2005 | Mikaela Bergenius | James Cook University, Australia |
| Adrian Jordaan | University of Maine | |
| Michael Lowe | Auburn University | |
| Kathy Mills | Cornell University | |
| 2004 | Tom Ihde | Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
| Michelle Staudinger | State University of New York, Stony Brook | |
| John Walter | Virginia Institute of Marine Science | |
| 2003 | Karen Burns | Mote Marine Laboratory, Florida |
| Michelle Davis | Virginia Tech University | |
| Daniel Uchida | University of Oregon | |
| Karen Scheding | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | |
| 2002 | Patrick Campfield | UMCES – Chesapeake Biological Laboratory |
| Toby Auth | UMCES – Chesapeake Biological Laboratory | |
| 2001 | David Anderson | |
| Taconya Piper | ||
| Chris Taylor | ||
| Wendy Vandersteen |
Student Travel Award Committee
| 2015 to Present | Adrian Jordaan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 2013 to 2014 | Syma Ebbins, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT |
| 2003 to 2013 | Russell Brown, NOAA/NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA |