The North American Symposium on Bat Research (NASBR) is an extremely student-friendly meeting. Below is a list of resources for students. If you know of other awards or scholarships that should be added to this page, please send an e-mail to dan dot riskin at brown dot edu.
As a graduate or undergraduate student, you have two NASBR Board Representatives at your service. They are there to bring your concerns or questions to the attention of the board. Also, if you ever have any questions about the NASBR meeting and want a friendly answer, these people are a great place to start.
Aaron Corcoran
Wake Forest University
corcaj8 at wfu dot edu
Amy Turmelle
University of Tennessee
aturmell at utk dot edu
To help students cut the costs of attending NASBR, the student representatives for NASBR maintain a bulletin board, where people can find others with whom to share a room at the conference.
Note that this website is not part of the NASBR website, and this service is not provided by the NASBR society. The society assumes no responsibility nor liability for any problems arising from the use of the roostmate finder website.
A link to the Roostmate Finder for NASBR 2009 in Portland will be posted here when it is available.
To help students network with scientists at NASBR, or to help them learn more about different career options, the student representatives for NASBR arrange lunch meetings between students and bat biologists during the bat meetings.
A link to the Student Lunch Page for NASBR 2009 in Portland will be posted here when it is available.
Southeastern Bat Diversity Network Student Travel Award
This award of up to US$500 is intended to help send a student to the NASBR meeting. The student must be an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled in a university or college within the Southeastern United States, working on bats. The deadline is June of each year. Details here and here. To apply, contact Susan Loeb (sloeb at clemson dot edu).
The Bernardo Villa Award
This award sends a Mexican student to NASBR, providing travel, lodging, banquet, and registration costs. To be eligible, applicants must be currently enrolled graduate or undergraduates students in a Mexican university, or must have graduated during the past year (i.e. since the end of the most recent NASBR meeting) from a Mexican university.
To apply, submit the following:
1. A short description of your work, no more than four pages long, in Spanish. Include title, author(s), abstract, introduction, methodology, results, and discussion (please include tables and figures).
2. An official copy of documentation showing you are a current student at a Mexican university, or showing that your date of graduation is in the past year.
3. Two letters of recommendation (one from your advisor).
Basically Bats Wildlife Conservation Society Award
Sponsored by Basically Bats Wildlife Conservation Society for a poster on any subject.
The Bat Conservation International Award
Sponsored by Bat Conservation International for any aspect of the biology of bats.
The Bat Research News Award
Sponsored by Bat Research News for platform papers on any subject area.
The Karl F. Koopman Award
Sponsored by the North American Symposium on Bat Research for platform papers, usually given in the field of zoogeography or systematics, if possible.
The Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award
Sponsored by the Lubee Bat Conservancy and preferably given for work on ecology, behavior, reproductive biology, or conservation of old world fruit bats (Pteropodidae).
Speleobooks Award
Sponsored by Speleobooks for a poster on any subject.
The Bat Conservation International Scholarship
This scholarship of up to US$5,000 funds research aimed at bat conservation.
American Society of Mammalogists Grants in Aid of Research
Information here.
AMNH Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants
Information here.
The Animal Behavior Society Research Grants
Information here.
The Society of Systematic Biology
Information here.
EPA Star and GRO Fellowships
Information here.
Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research
Information here.
