COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship, the IAATO Antarctic Fellowship 2019 & the SCAR 2019 Fellowships
Announcements
The Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP), the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the and the
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
have been working together for many years to support talented early-career
researchers, scientists, engineers, environmental managers, and other
professionals to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in fields
such as science support and facilitation, environmental management implementation, and climate, biodiversity, conservation, humanities and astrophysics
research by way of an annual funding opportunity. For 2019, these Antarctic
organisations are joined by the International Association of Antarctica Tour
Operators (IAATO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) who will each
support additional Antarctic-related fellowships.
The successful COMNAP and IAATO Fellows were announced on 30/31 July 2019. They are:
IAATO Fellow 2019
Daniela Cajiao Vargas
from Ecuador
currently completing her PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She will
take up the Fellowship at North Carolina State University, USA.
IAATO Fellow 2019
Martina Mascioni
from Argentina currently completing
her PhD at the University of La Plata.
She will take up her Fellowship at
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA.
COMNAP Fellow 2019 Mikolaj
Dziurzynski
from Poland currently completing
his PhD at the University of Warsaw.
He will take up the Fellowship
at the
University of Florence, Italy.
The COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship Background Information:
The COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship was offered for the first time in 2011. It is designed to encourage the active involvement of early career Antarctic persons and to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty. It is intended to allow people from a COMNAP Member National Antarctic Program country to undertake short-term visits to major international laboratories, field facilities, and/or home institutions in or operated by other COMNAP Member National Antarctic Programs (for a list of members, please visit the "Our Members" page of the COMNAP website). The fellow's project should contribute to the objectives of the home or host National Antarctic Program's objectives.
To Apply for the COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship:
Check eligibility requirements and download an application form and letters of reference templates (file 1 below). Ask your home institute to complete a letter of reference, and discuss with your proposed host institute your proposal and their ability to support your project at their facilities. Include both letters of reference with your application. Your proposed project must align with the priority projects or topics for the application year. Prepare your application and when your application is ready for submission, upload the application along with supporting documentation to the COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship application on-line submission site.
See below for all necessary documentation and a link to the application site. All completed applications must be received by the deadline to be considered.
Eligibility requirements checklist, application forms for the COMNAP Fellowship 2020 will be available in February 2020.
List of priority projects for COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship 2020 will be confirmed in February 2020.
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The IAATO Antarctic Fellowship Background Information:
From 2019, IAATO has joined COMNAP, SCAR and CCAMLR to support early-career professionals by way of providing funding for an inaugural IAATO Antarctic Fellowship. For 2019, COMNAP administered the application process on behalf of IAATO.
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Evaluation of Antarctic Fellowship applications received:
For the COMNAP applications, a review panel chaired by a representative of the COMNAP Executive Committee, and including expertise in the range of projects proposed, will evaluate all COMNAP proposals on the basis of the excellence of the proposed project. This evaluation will also take into consideration factors such as:
§ its relevance to the list of proposed project themes;
§ its achievability within the time frame allotted;
§ the extent to which links have already been established with the proposed host institution;
§ the extent to which it will strengthen the Antarctic science support capacity of the nations involved;
§ its "fit" with COMNAP's goals and objectives.
For the IAATO applications, the IAATO Executive Committee plus one COMNAP EXCOM Member will evaluate all applications received before the deadline and will rank on the basis of excellence and fit to IAATO's overarching purpose, and must reflect the objectives of IAATO and add to our understanding of human presence in the Antarctic.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The COMNAP Antarctic Research Fellowship Recipients 2011-2019 The following were awarded COMNAP Fellowships. Their reports are also available below.
2014-2015 Keith Soal "Characterisation of Ice Structure.pdf", (Full title: Characterisation of Ice-Structure and Fluid-Structure Interactions on Polar Vessels using Operational Modal Analysis), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa to Germany and Finland
2015-2016 Alejandro Velasco Castrillon "Limno Terrestrial Microfauna.pdf", "100 years on: a re-evaluation of the first discovery of limno-terrestrial microfauna of the McMurdo Sound region", University of Adelaide/South Australia Museum to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
2015-2016 Inka Koch (Awarded a joint SCAR/COMNAP Fellowship) "Airborne Ice Penetrating Radar.pdf", "Detecting marine ice internal layers and thickness in an Antarctic ice shelf with airborne ice penetrating radar", University of Otago, New Zealand to University of Texas, USA
2016-2017 Ronja Reese “Importance of Ice Buttressing in Antarctica.pdf”, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Germany, to the British Antarctic Survey
2016-2017 Blanca Figuerola “Vulnerability of Antarctic bryozoan communities to environmental change.pdf”, University of Barcelona,
Spain, to the Australian Antarctic Division
2016-2017 Christopher
Horvat (Awarded a joint SCAR/COMNAP Fellowship) " Modelling the
Antarctic Sea Ice Floe Size Distribution", Harvard University, USA, to the
National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, New Zealand
2017-2018 Maria Gabriela Roldan " Inviting Antarctica into your home: an evaluation of public engagement with Antarctic science, science support, policy and technology", Gateway Antarctica, New Zealand, to the Institute Antartico Chileno (INACH), Chile
Other Opportunities
CCAMLR Scholarship Scheme
University of Canterbury Summer Scholarship Scheme
Each Austral summer, the Unviersity of Canterbury which hosts the COMNAP Secretariat in Christchurch, New Zealand, offers senior students an opportunity to work on a summer project. COMNAP has participated in two such projects and reports from each one are below.
2010/11 Max Gallagher "Impacts of Tsunami on National Antarctic Program Operations and Personnel in Coastal Antarctica".
FINAL Tsunami Report.pdf
2013/14 Hanne Nielsen "From Shelter to Showpiece: The Evolution of Antarctic Station design".
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