The High Altitude Revegetation Committee (HAR) offers travel scholarships of up to $1000 for students presenting a technical paper or poster at national or regional land reclamation or ecosystem restoration conferences.
No scholarships are currently available. Please check back regularly, the next opportunity is planned for September 2025, concurrent with the Society for Ecological Restoration’s 2025 World Conference.
Guidelines
To be eligible, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- be a current student or recent graduate (degree earned during current or previous year)
- be the senior author and presenter of a paper or poster at the meeting of interest
- provide an abstract of the presentation and identify the target conference
- Indicate the total amount of conference-related expenses anticipated, total amount of funds being requested (up to $1000), amount and source of other financial support for conference-related expenses
- recipients must acknowledge HAR travel award on poster or at the end of presentation
- recipients must agree to allow HAR to acknowledge the award on the HAR website and send HAR a photo of them presenting talk or poster
- recipients failing to attend target meeting must return award to HAR
Required Applicant information
When a scholarship opportunity is opened, application forms will be provided here. You will be asked to provide:
- applicant name and address
- email address
- academic or professional affiliation and contact information
- degree sought or recently earned
- major
- expected or actual graduation date
- presentation type (oral or poster)
- conference you would like to attend
- title of presentation,
- abstract
- CV or resume
- advisor information (name, title, address, email, phone number)
- conference budget information