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Funder Type
Corporate Foundation
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
American Philosophical Society (APS)
Summary
The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.
Grants will be available to doctoral students. The proposed work should be dissertation directed to the extent possible given the applicant's year in the doctoral program. Budgets should be limited to travel and related expenses, including personal field equipment.
History of Funding
Award recipient for 2018-2019 included Adams, Julia, University of California, Riverside for Lichen Symbiont Diversity Across Environmental Gradients in the Mojave Desert; Agostini, Mark R., Brown University for Constructing the Cosmos: An Archaeology of Sacred Landscapes in the Tewa Basin, New Mexic, AD 1325–1700; Allen, Kaitlin E., University of Kansas for Testing the Pleistocene Refugial Hypothesis in Highland Versus River Systems in Cameroon; and Alonge, Mattina M., University of California, Berkeley for Interaction of Reproductive Costs and Elevation on Hibernation Energetics in Townsend's Big-Eared Bats of California's White-Inyo Mountains. A full list of past recipients can be found at https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research.
Additional Information
Postdoctoral fellows, master's degree candidates, and undergraduates are not eligible. Proposals that are archival in nature or museum based will not normally be considered.
Recipients are required to submit brief reports on their trip for archiving in the APS Library. Funding is contingent on successful applicants demonstrating that required permits and permissions have been secured.
Graduate students and postdoctoral and junior scientists wishing to pursue projects in astrobiological field studies should consult the program description and application forms for the Lewis and Clark Fund in Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology.
Eligibility Details
Grants will be available to doctoral students. The competition is open to U.S. citizens and residents wishing to carry out research anywhere in the world. Foreign applicants must either be based at a U.S. institution or plan to carry out their work in the United States. Applicants who have previously received a Lewis and Clark Fund grant may reapply after an interval of two years.
Deadline Details
In 2019, applications were to be submitted by November 11, while letters of support were to be submitted by November 8. A similar deadline is anticipated annually. Notification of awards occur in March for work beginning in May or later.
Award Details
Amounts will depend on travel costs but will ordinarily be in the range of several hundred dollars up to about $5,000. Grants are payable to the individual applicant. Lewis and Clark Fund grants are taxable income, but the Society is not required to report payments. It is recommended that grant recipients discuss their reporting obligations with their tax advisors.
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