Fellowships/Scholarships/Research Funding
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program // 1 December 2023
The Center for Natural Carbon Capture at Yale University is accepting applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The mission of the Center is to foster research on carbon capture and greenhouse gas reduction that will contribute to the design and implementation of climate solutions. We welcome applicants with research interests across the full range of disciplines related to the Center’s three focal areas: Ecological and Biological Carbon Capture; Geological and Ocean Carbon Capture, and Industrial Carbon Utilization. Candidates need to identify and contact faculty with the relevant expertise to discuss their proposed project and ensure the faculty member is willing and able to host them. Faculty hosts can be from any school/department at Yale, including the School of the Environment, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and any relevant department within the Faculty of Arts Sciences. Applications lacking a letter of support from a potential Yale faculty host will not be considered.
Institution: Center for Natural Carbon Capture, Yale University
Duty station: New Haven, CT, USA
Closing date: 1 December 2023, 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Contact: If assistance is needed to identify or contact a potential advisor, please email ycncc(at)yale.edu.
Details:
https://apply.interfolio.com/129165
https://naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu
Call for Applications: Fully funded DAAD EPOS scholarship to study M.Sc. in Tropical Forestry (academic intake 2024-26) in Dresden, Germany // 30 October 2023
You are invited to apply for studying Master of Science in Tropical Forestry (academic intake 2024-26) with classes starting in October 2024. The course is taught in English language at the Technische Universität Dresden, one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence.
Since its inception in 1995, this unique 2-year master's degree program has garnered international recognition through its focus on social, ecological and economic aspects of tropical forest management. This is an excellent opportunity to study in an international, intercultural, and dynamic working environment offered at the reputed ‘Chair of Tropical and International Forestry’ that offers integrated specialization in tropical ecology, forest and development policy and resource management. In this programme, you will learn from and work alongside a competent academic and research team, who will supervise your field research in international tropical or sub-tropical contexts. Drawing on a century-long expertise in forest sciences, our programme puts emphasis on the ecological, technical as well as social science dimensions in forestry. Special attention is given to the socio-economic as well as socio-political aspects during the education. At the end of the study program, interested graduates with outstanding merit will have a chance to enter our PhD program and join our team of researchers. You will also benefit from our competent alumni network of over 400 forestry professionals employed by some of the major national, international, intergovernmental, and private organizations around the world.
Applications for DAAD EPOS scholarship applications will be accepted from 1 September 2023 to 30 October 2023 through online portal of MSc Tropical Forestry programme.
Date of MSc course: Begins in October every year, duration 24 months
Institution: Chair of Tropical Forestry, Technische Universität Dresden
Duty station: Dresden, Germany
Closing date: 30 October 2023 (for the intake October 2024)
Details:
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Charles Bullard Fellowship in Forest Research
Harvard University awards a limited number of Bullard Fellowships annually to individuals representing a variety of disciplines and approaches to the study of forested ecosystems. These full-time residential fellowships allow individuals to foster their scientific and professional growth and to contribute to research on forests at Harvard. A major goal of the Bullard Fellowship program is to enhance research activities at Harvard Forest and build long-term collaborations that connect Harvard Forest with other parts of the University. Fellows can be based at the Harvard Forest or associated with other departments and centers at Harvard, such as the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, and the Arnold Arboretum. Bullard Fellowships are not intended for post-doctoral fellows; instead they are targeted at individuals with a record of independent scholarship and professional accomplishment.
Institution: Harvard Forest, Harvard University
Closing date: 1 October 2023
Details: https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/bullardfellowships
New funding call for Climate-Smart Forestry projects opening soon
FORWARDS will launch around five grant calls with a total value of EUR 6 million to fund 50 projects to set up the ForestWard Observatory. In the first round of grant calls to be launched in July, five projects will be funded for establishing new Climate-Smart forestry and forest restoration trials. Each project will be granted with up to EUR 150,000. Successful applications will result in projects that are expected to commence around the beginning of 2024, with a duration of maximum 18 months. Subsequently during the year and until the project end, FORWARDS will launch many more calls to fund projects across different themes.
In case if you are an organisation working in Climate-Smart Forestry, watch out for the launch at the end of July. The call will be published on EFI’s grants webpage.
FORWARDS is an EU-funded project that will prototype the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool that will help in demonstrating the impact of climate change on forests, guiding decision-making for practical forests management. FORWARDS has received funding from the EU Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101084481. The project started on 1 November 2022 and ends on 30 November 2027.
Details on the FORWARDS project: https://forwards-project.eu/
Details on upcoming call: https://efi.int/news/new-funding-call-climate-smart-forestry-projects-opening-soon-2023-06-20