Summary:
Tuition support for Master’s candidates focusing on soil and water conservation.
Application Deadline Date:
Saturday, June 1, 2024
# Awards:
1
Upper Limit Amount ($):
3,500
Academic Area:
Soil and Water Conservation
Description:
This Soil and Water Conservation Scholarship is meant to bring back into focus the vital necessity and passion for our discipline by encouraging current students to consider a career in soil and water conservation. Great soil and water conservationists do not evolve from our education systems, but are nurtured throughout their education and career building period by conservation stalwarts who have traveled on before them. $3,000 (student) + $500 (student’s advisor). There are 2 deadlines to note, 1. Applications initiated 2. Applications & Reference letters submitted.
Award Purpose:
Tuition
Year In School:
Masters
Eligibility Requirement - Gender:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Citizenship:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Residency:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Other:
Nominee
The candidate must be a student enrolled in a North American (USA, Canada, and Mexico) University. Preference will be given to students enrolled in a land grant university, or other universities or colleges having an equivalent agricultural curriculum.
The student can be a junior or senior in a B.S. program or a M.S. candidate.
This award allows self-nominations.
Former recipients of this Award are not eligible.
Reference
The student’s major professor must support the candidate by writing a letter of support.
Members of this SSSA Awards Committee, the SSSA Board of Directors, and also the ASA Executive Committee are not eligible to be a reference for this award.
Specializations:
Climate Change Science and Solutions
Ecosystem Management and Conservation
Forestry
People, Equity, and the Environment
Water Resource Science & Management
Date Updated:
Friday, April 19, 2024
Recurring:
Annual - Jun