ECSA Travel Funds

Early Career Scientist Assembly FY2010 Travel Funds Program

AVAILABLE FUNDS:

ECSA has approximately $20K available for travel funds for FY2010.

PROCEDURE:

Fill out the form (travel_request) and send a hard copy with supervisors signature to Andrew Gettelman (andrew@ucar.edu)

Please note:
Deadline is 19 October 2009.
Travel for these funds MUST COMPLETED WITHIN THE FY10 FISCAL YEAR.
(Before September 30, 2010).

CRITERIA:

Requests will be ranked on a points system based on current position, cost sharing and other travel. Priority is given to associate and project scientists over scientists, and to those who may not have other travel funds. Funds available for NCAR employees only.

Associate Scientist 1 = 5
Associate Scientist 2 = 4
Associate Scientist 3 = 4
Project Scientist 1 = 4
Project Scientist 2 = 3
Scientist 1 = 3
Scientist 2 = 3
Research Engineer 1 = 3
Research Engineer 2 = 3
ASP Post Doc = 3
Other Post Doc = 4

Subtract 1 point for each trip taken in the past 12 months
Priority will be given to those who have not received ECSA funding in the last 2 years

Maximum award is $2,000

UPON ACCEPTANCE:

ECSA members who receive ECSA travel support will be required to submit ONE of the following to the ASP office prior to my signing their travel reimbursement requests:
- a pdf file of the presentation that they made while on travel
- a pdf file of the poster that they presented while on travel
- a detailed trip report, outlining the purpose of their trip and
its impact on their research and/or professional development (N.B. ALL acronyms need to be defined in this report).