Early-Career Travel Support

The retreat format of WAIS Workshops provides a unique atmosphere where scientists at the start of their career can interact with senior researchers. We therefore strive to make WAIS Workshop accessible through early-career travel support to encourage attendence from a broad specturm of early-career researchers.

Our budget includes airfare, lodging, and registration fee support for a limited number of students and early-career researchers. We ask that interested people submit an abstract on their recent research for consideration for the funding. Please highlight the relevance of your abstract to West Antarctica, ice sheet stability, ice-ocean or ice-biology interactions, or polar climate change and any other relevant information regarding your funding.

We estimate that we have travel support for 5–10 students or recent post-doctoral researchers (≤ 5 years since degree, or ≤ 5 years in career in total if there was a break due to family obligations). Support will be provided as post-Workshop reimbursements, and we aim to inform students of the decision on their support within one week of the deadline.