Call for Angus Gavin Migratory Bird Research Grant Review Team Volunteers

[Dory Straight]

The 2025 field season proposals for the Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Research Grant are now open. The University of Alaska Foundation is seeking volunteers within the wildlife biology and ornithology fields for grant reviewers to join the Angus Gavin Award Review Team to evaluate grant applications submitted to the Foundation. If you are interested or know of a good reviewer candidate, please let me know.  The announcement below was sent out to the universities early this morning. 

Scientists within the University of Alaska System (UAF, UAA, UAS), including graduate students and faculty members, are invited to apply for the Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Research Grant (Gavin Grant). 

Applications may be submitted through Friday, January 17, for 2025 field season proposals. The selection committee will make award selections between $15,000 - $30,000 for one or more applicants. 

The Gavin Grant is awarded annually to support research on bird species found either permanently or seasonally in Alaska or its coastal waters, including their biology, general ecology and habitat relationships. 

Created in 1983 with gifts from Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), now ConocoPhillips Alaska, the gift from ARCO and its employees was in honor of Angus Gavin, an environmental scientist and advisor to ARCO. Gavin was hand-picked by ARCO Chairman Robert O. Anderson to observe, categorize and quantify the flora and fauna of Prudhoe Bay in 1969. Gavin’s work was instrumental in helping ARCO and the scientific community draw conclusions about the impact of oil field development on the ecology of the North Slope and to recommend operational changes that would minimize or negate any adverse effects on the environment. 

For more information about the Gavin Grant application process, history or prior recipients, please visit the UA Foundation website.