Event

National Geographic Society Information Session

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 14:00to16:00
Arts Building, CA, QC, Montreal, CA

The Office of Sponsored Research is pleased to invite McGill researchers and administrators to an information session on National Geographic funding opportunities.  Emerging and established researchers are encouraged to attend.

National Geographic has recently revised their granting program and funds fieldwork in the following areas:  human migration (i.e., the causes and effects of human population movement), human adaptation (i.e., how societies adjust to and mitigate environmental changes), and human diversity (i.e., the cultural, linguistic, and genetic diversity of our species), biodiversity in human-altered environments (including human-wildlife conflict and mitigation, urban ecology, zoonotic diseases), the effects of climate change on biodiversity (including science- and policy-oriented solutions), the exploitation of natural resources (including bushmeat, legal but unsustainable harvesting, wildlife crime), landscape connectivity and habitat corridors (including animal migrations), and the science of restoration (i.e., ecosystem restoration at all scales), geology, geochemistry, physical geography, marine ecology, oceanography, paleontology, and observational astronomy. We are particularly interested in the themes of ocean research and conservation (including reef processes, marine ecology and management, and sea-level change), disasters associated with natural hazards (including volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides), environmental change (including records of past climates, glacial retreat, pollution, and remediation), and the history of our planet (including plate tectonics, paleobotany, mass-extinction events, and planetary analog science).

The information session will include:

  • presentation by Colin Chapman, Professor (Anthropology and School of Environment) and Member of the Committee for Research and Exploration (CRE) at National Geographic.  Professor Chapman will share his insights, knowledge, and new updates from his perspective as a member of the CRE for over 9 years.
  • a question and answer period. 

Please RSVP online by Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 5:00 P.M.

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