GLORIA Great Basin Peak Opportunity Fellowships 2024

GLORIA Great Basin (www.gloriagreatbasin.org) surveys have long been an amazing opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain invaluable field experience in botany and field ecology while making connections with their peers and professionals in non-profits, academia, and in state and federal agencies. 

However, GLORIA Great Basin also recognizes that there are students from marginalized groups that face barriers which exclude them from research opportunities, especially for opportunities in remote mountains that pose the unique challenges of transportation, field gear, and time. Through our Peak Opportunity Fellowships, GLORIA Great Basin will fully support two students (upper-division undergraduate or graduate students) to join us in our surveys on White Mountain Peak (Inyo National Forest) this summer. We will provide the successful applicants with transportation, field gear, room and board, and wages (totaling up to $2,500 per student), and mentorship (e.g., facilitating networking, providing guidance on job applications, etc.) both leading up to and following the field campaign. 

Fieldwork will be on White Mountain Peak (Inyo National Forest, Big Pine, California) on July 15 – 21st, 2024. Applicants must be available for the entire field-survey dates. Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis, and we encourage students that self-identify along one or more of the following axes of diversity to apply:

• First-generation college student (neither parent/guardian having completed a baccalaureate degree) or from an economically disadvantaged background;
• Member of an ethnic or racial group that has been historically excluded from graduate education and STEM, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous (American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, other Native Pacific Islander) and/or Latine/Latinx;
• Other groups that have been historically excluded from graduate education and STEM, including but not limited to those who manage a disability, identify as LGBTQ+, military veterans, holders of DACA, TPS, refugee, or asylee status, and single parents.

The awardee will be selected by GLORIA Great Basin Board with the following selection criteria:

• Interest of the student in global change and conservation in mountains
• Overall experiential strength of the application

To apply, please submit the following to coordinator@gloriagreatbasin.org:

• Resume/CV including 1-2 references with contact information
• 1-page statement that describes your current research interests, self-identification of axes of diversity, and how this fellowship will contribute to your future goals 

The application deadline is April 1, 2024.