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Date:    Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:22:29 -0500
From:    "David W. Inouye" 
Subject: small grants program in marine environmental history and historical
         ecology

Applications are now open for Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in
Marine Environmental History and Historical Ecology
Application Deadline: May 25, 2001

Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) has launched a program to
provide small grants for several research projects in the areas of marine
environmental history and historical ecology. The program is dedicated to
the memory and scientific legacy of Mia J. Tegner, a marine biologist from
Scripps Institution of Oceanography who lost her life in January while
observing the marine environment in the waters off Southern California. Dr.
Tegner's research focused on the ecology of kelp forest communities and
made significant contributions to the field historical ecology.

The program aims to provide policy makers and conservationists with crucial
information for devising projects that hold high potential for both
successful restoration and conservation of marine biodiversity.

We will consider proposals related to estuarine and marine environments
anywhere in the world, from natural and social scientists interested in
uncovering interactions between environmental and human history in the
marine realm. We are particularly interested in studies that seek to
describe natural systems and their component species prior to large-scale
human impacts since European colonization in the Americas. Proposal
evaluation criteria include the potential for the project to influence the
field of marine conservation biology and demonstration by the applicant(s)
of a given project's significance to an important marine conservation issue.

Background information and details on the grant application process are
available at www.mcbi.org.