MSA Climate Change Research Award

MSA Awards

The Mycological Society of America has been recognizing excellence in research, teaching and service among its membership by celebrating students, teachers, and researchers. This is your chance to do something for that promising student or distinguished mycologist.

MSA Climate Change Research Award

The Climate Change Research Award supports research that can potentially lead to practical, viable solutions to mitigate the fundamental causes of global climate change caused by human activity. Appropriate research is broadly defined as any climate research in which fungi and their many functions and/or output are essential, elemental aspects of the research. Creative and novel areas of fundamental and/or translational fungal-climate research will be considered, including work examining aspects of fungi not previously studied in detail.

We expect all award winners to make every effort to attend the annual meeting and encourage all applicants to concurrently apply for an MSA Travel Award in support of that. Presence at the MSA meeting to accept the award provides awardees the opportunity to meet members of the mycological community, and it gives MSA members an opportunity to meet the awardees.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Award Requirements
  • Applicants must be current members of MSA or must have applied for membership at the time of the award application.
  • Undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral scientists at US institutions of higher learning are eligible.
  • Applicants whose research will include partnership with foreign individuals and/or groups must include a lead researcher(s) currently residing in the US.
  • Results of research funded by the MSA Climate Change Research Award will be made available to the global scientific community free of charge.
  • MSA encourages and welcomes nominations of all individuals regardless of race and ethnicity, country of origin, sex, gender identity, religion, age, education level, socioeconomic status, marital status, parental status, physical ability, neurological differences, political affiliation, and sexual orientation.

_You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member._

Ineligibility

• Indirect cost is not allowed on MSA awards.