DAN/R.W. "Bill" Hamilton Dive Medicine Research Grant

DAN/R.W. "Bill" Hamilton Dive Medicine Research Grant

Funder: Divers Alert Network (DAN)

Award Amount: US$10,000

Status: This grant was announced in January 2020. The last listed deadline was March 15, 2020. Current status and whether it remains active is unknown.

Focus Areas

The year-long grant supports new or ongoing research projects in one or more of the following areas:
• Development of decompression procedure techniques for commercial, military, technical and/or recreational divers
• Development of new decompression models
• Probability of risk or probabilistic modeling
• Multi-gas dive simulation
• Dive computer procedures, protocols and testing
• Treatment of incomplete decompression and resulting incidents

Eligibility

• Applicants can be involved in any aspect of dive-related sciences
• Open to applicants at any stage of their professional education or career
• The spirit of the program is to support projects closely related to Dr. Hamilton's studies in decompression safety and diving physiology

Requirements

• Recipients are required to present their results to DAN

About the Grant

DAN established this research grant in honor of Dr. R.W. "Bill" Hamilton, who passed away in 2011 at age 81. Hamilton was nicknamed "The Prince of Gases" and conducted extensive research on dive physiology and treatment of injured divers. He is best known for co-developing the Diving Computational Analysis Program (DCAP), which analyzes and develops decompression procedures and schedules for various pressure exposures.

Contact

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