CFAs: Resilience and Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline Date: October 15, 2024
Donor Name: Smithsonian Institution
Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000
https://fellowships.si.edu/Resilience
The Smithsonian Institution is seeking applications for its Resilience and Sustainability Science Postdoctoral Fellowship to support up to five post-doctoral fellows as they conduct independent research under its Life on a Sustainable Planet programme to address climate crisis in support of the Smithsonian’s goals to understand and expand resilience.
The fellows will be able to leverage the Smithsonian’s resources, including its scientists, collections, exhibits, and data sets, to advance scientific understanding resilience and sustainability in either marine or terrestrial systems.
All proposals are welcome, but proposals should focus on the resilience and sustainability connecting complex marine or terrestrial systems (e.g., forests, freshwater systems, soils, etc.) with the people who depend on these systems and the services these systems provide. By resilience, we mean the ability of people and nature to respond and/or adapt to external stressors. As such, proposals must address at least two of the following:
- Socio-environmental external stressors as drivers of change
- Socio-environmental factors that influence the ability to adapt or that convey resilience
- Adaptive strategies
- Adaptive responses/outcomes
- Importantly, proposals must also demonstrate that the research:
- is use-inspired;
- clearly relates to or informs solutions to current global environmental challenges; and
- includes a diversity, equity, access, and inclusion (DEAI) component.
- Applications may be focused on any number of a broad set of natural or social science disciplines (inclusive of, but no limited to: animal behavior, anthropology, archeology, chemical ecology, conservation biology, ecology, economics, evolutionary biology, functional genomics, geography microbial ecology, molecular biology, marine biology, natural history, neurobiology, paleoecology, paleontology, physiology, political economy, political ecology, public policy, sensory ecology, sociology, soils sciences, taxonomy, etc.)
Funding Information
- Recipients will receive a stipend of $62,000 per year for Postdoctoral Fellows.
- A maximum research allowance of $10,000 is available for the fellowship period.
- Stipends are prorated for periods of less than 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants for Postdoctoral Fellowships must have or will have received the Ph.D. by the time the fellowship begins.
- Applicants must propose to conduct research in residence.
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