Funding Opportunities

1. Marie Tharp Visiting Fellowship


Update:

The Marie Tharp Fellowship will resume in 2014. Please check back in Nov-Dec 2013.


This prestigious fellowship is named after Marie Tharp, the first scientist to map details of the ocean floor on a global scale.  She published the pivotal interpretation of mid-ocean ridges that was crucial to the eventual acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift. Tharp based her work on data from sonar readings obtained by Maurice Ewing and his team.  Piecing together data from the late 1940s and early 1950s, she and colleague Bruce Heezen discovered a 40,000-mile underwater ridge girdling the globe and established the foundation for the conclusion that the sea floor spreads from central ridges and that the continents are in motion with respect to one another—a revolutionary geological theory at the time.  Years later, satellite images proved Tharp’s maps to be accurate.  Tharp came to Columbia in 1948 and then moved to the Lamont Geological Observatory (now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), where she began work on mapping the ocean floor. Her map of the ocean floor is still a foundation for research and education in the ocean sciences.


This fellowship awards up to $25,000 to qualified applicants. Click here to learn about the 2012-2013 award. Click here to learn more about this award. To view a list of past winners and to learn more about this prestigious award click here


World Ocean Floor: Marie Tharp & Bruce Heezen



2. Leadership Grant Initiative 


The Office of Academic Affairs & Diversity offers grants that will provide scientists at LDEO opportunities to attend leadership conferences. Under this Leadership Grant Initiative the office will sponsor participation and travel costs  up to $500.00 associated with attending conferences that focus on developing leadership skills for junior scientists. Both male and female scientists at LDEO are eligible to apply for these awards.

It is expected that approximately 4-5 awards will be given out in one academic year. It may be possible to give out more awards if additional funding becomes available. The recipients of these funds will be expected to give a talk to the postdoctoral / junior scientist community on the workshop / conference attended with these funds.