The purpose of this page is to direct people towards smaller grants that might fund summer student research, or provide the means to carry out pilot studies. Organizations that are, at first glance, apparently only concerned with extant taxa and ecosystems can often make awards to palaeontological projects. The Palaeontological Association can provide no guarantee that the information on external sites is correct. The list below does not cover schemes that are designed to provide salaries for researchers, as these are usually well-known.
The schemes are ordered by deadline dates for applications. Schemes with multiple deadlines are listed based on the earliest deadline.

• Scheme: A. Allen Graffham Research Grant
• Eligibility: Awarded to a selected researcher that will publish on specimens collected by, or in collaboration with, AAPS members
• Maximum funding amount: 1000USD
• Deadline: January 1st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.aaps.net/a_allen_graffham-research-grant.htm
  Email: george@stonejungle.com

• Scheme: Percy Sladen Memorial Fund
• Eligibility: Support for fieldwork outside of usual country of residence in the earth and life sciences
• Maximum funding amount: 750GBP
• Deadlines: January 30th and September 30th
• Further details:
Website: http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=332
Email: gina@linnean.org

• Schemes: Group Expeditions
• Eligibility: See website
• Maximum funding amount: 900GBP
• Deadline: January 31st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.rsgs.org/grantsandfunding/formcrit.htm

• Scheme: Undergraduate Research
• Eligibility: Open to undergraduate science students in the middle of their degree seeking to undertake a 6-8 week research project over the summer
• Maximum funding amount: Consult website for details
• Deadline: Early February
• Further details:
  
Website: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/nsbur/page_412.html
Email: urb@nuffieldfoundation.org

• Scheme: W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award
• Who is eligible?: GSA members or fellows aged between 30 and 65 who have published at least one significant paper on a micropalaeontological topic and wish to conduct further research on invertebrate palaeontology
• Maximum funding amount: 9100USD
• Deadline: February 1st
• Further details: This award is administered by GSA, due to the stipulation that applicants MUST be GSA members or fellows.
  Website: http://www.geosociety.org/grants/postdoc.htm
  Email: awards@geosociety.org

• Scheme: Graduate Student Research Grants
• Eligibility: Open to GSA members enrolled at US, Mexican or Canadian institutions in a subject with an earth sciences component
• Maximum funding amount: 3500USD
• Deadline: February 1st
• Further details:
Website: http://www.geosociety.org/grants/gradgrants.htm/
Email: awards@geosociety.org

• Scheme: Student Award In Systematic Paleontology
• Eligibility: Open to graduate students working on any area of systematic palaeontology
• Maximum funding amount: 500USD
• Deadline: February 1st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.museumoftheearth.org/about.php?page=63062
  Email: mikkelsen@museumoftheearth.org

• Scheme: John W. Wells Grants-in-Aid of Research Program
• Eligibility: Open to graduate students or postdocs to carry out collections-based research at PRI
• Maximum funding amount: 500USD
• Deadline: February 15th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.museumoftheearth.org/about.php?page=63062
  Email: gpd3@cornell.edu

• Scheme: PS Student Research Grants
• Eligibility: Open to undergraduate and graduate palaeontologists who are members of the Paleontological Society
• Maximum funding amount: 750USD
• Deadline: February 25th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.paleosoc.org/grantin.html

The Jurassic Foundation

• Scheme: Research Grants
• Who is eligible?: Open to all researchers and research students working on dinosaur palaeobiology
• Maximum funding amount: 5000USD
• Deadlines: March 15th and October 15th
• Further details:
  Website: http://jurassicfoundation.org/grants.html
  Email: dweisham@mail.jhmi.edu

• Scheme: Appleyard Fund
• Eligibility: Open to Fellows and Associates of the Society who are not in full-time employment as biologists
• Maximum funding amount: 2500GBP
• Deadline: March 31st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=334
  Email: Contact the Executive Secretary of the Society

• Scheme: PalSIRP Sepkoski Grants
• Eligibility: Open to palaeontologists living in Eastern Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union
• Maximum funding amount: 1000USD
• Deadline: April 1st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.paleosoc.org/palsirp.html
  

• Scheme: Palaeontographical Society Research Fund
• Eligibility: Open to anyone conducting palaeontological research (travel, visits to museums, fieldwork, etc.) within the Society’s remit of describing the fossil fauna and flora of the British Isles
• Maximum funding amount: Two awards of 500GBP per year
• Deadline: April 16th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/palsoc/
  Email: S.Long@nhm.ac.uk or P.Barrett@nhm.ac.uk

• Scheme: Joseph A. Cushman Award for Student Research
• Who is eligible?: Masters and Ph. D. students working on fossil or living forams
• Maximum funding amount: 2000USD
• Deadline: September 1st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/awards/index.html
  Email: dweisham@mail.jhmi.edu

• Scheme: William V. Sliter Research Award
• Who is eligible?: Graduate students working on Mesozoic-Cenozoic forams
• Maximum funding amount: 2000USD
• Deadline: September 1st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/awards/index.html
  Email: jettje@si.edu

• Scheme: Loeblich and Tappan Student Research Award
• Who is eligible?: Undergraduate and graduate students working on all aspects of living protists
• Maximum funding amount: 2000USD
• Deadline: September 1st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/awards/index.html
  Email: jettje@si.edu

• Scheme: The Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award
• Eligibility: Undergraduate or graduate students, of any nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology
• Maximum funding amount: 2000USD
• Deadline: September 9th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/Shoemaker_Award/
  Email: awards@geosociety.org

• Schemes: Neville Shulman Challenge Award
• Eligibility: Applicants must be UK nationals over 25. Ph. D and M. Sc. projects are NOT eligible
• Maximum funding amount: 10000GBP
• Deadline: September 25th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Grants/Expedition+and+fieldwork+grants/Neville+Shulman+Challenge+Award.htm

• Schemes: Land Rover 'Go Beyond' Bursary
• Eligibility: Applicants must hold clean UK driving licences and have three years or more of driving experience. For other details consult PDF available from the website
• Maximum funding amount: 10000GBP + use of Landrover 110
• Deadline: September 25th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Grants/Expedition+and+fieldwork+grants/Land+Rover+Go+Beyond+Bursary.htm

• Schemes: Journey of a Lifetime
• Eligibility: See website
• Maximum funding amount: 4000GBP
• Deadline: September 25th
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Grants/Expedition+and+fieldwork+grants/Journey+of+a+Lifetime.htm

• Scheme: Systematics Research Fund (SRF)
• Eligibility: A wide range of activities connected to systematics can be funded
• Maximum funding amount: 1500GBP
• Deadline: December 31st
  
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.systass.org/awards/srf.shtml
  Email:t.a.richards@systass.org

• Scheme: CoSyst
• Eligibility: UK-based researchers only
• Maximum funding amount: 20000GBP
• Deadline: December 31st
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.systass.org/awards/cosyst.shtml
  Email: CoSyst2009@googlemail.com

• Scheme: Schools and Colleges Bursary
• Eligibility: Open to students in their first year of higher-level Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) courses
• Maximum funding amount: Consult website for details
• Deadlines: Varies by region, check website
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/nsbsc/page_394.html
  Email: ssaunders@nuffieldfoundation.org

• Scheme: Research Grants/Awards
• Eligibility: The RSE administers a wide range of grants with different criteria. Please consult the webpages of individual schemes
• Maximum funding amount: Varies
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/research_fellowships/grants.htm

• Scheme: Research Grants/Awards
• Eligibility: The Royal Society of London administers a wide range of grants with different criteria. Please consult the webpages of individual schemes
• Maximum funding amount: Varies
• Further details:
  Website: http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1112

• Scheme: Grants and Awards
• Eligibility: The Royal Irish Academy administers a wide range of grants with different criteria, many aimed at exchange visits. Please consult the webpages of individual schemes
• Maximum funding amount: Varies
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.ria.ie/awards/index.html

• Schemes: Fellowship and sponsorship programmes at NATO
• Eligibility: NATO maintains a wide-range of schemes, most are directed towards researchers from Eastern Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union
• Maximum funding amount: Varies
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.nato.int/structur/sponsorships.htm

• Schemes: National Geographic offers a wide range of grants and funding for field-based research and exploration
• Eligibility: See website
• Maximum funding amount: Varies among schemes
• Deadlines: See individual scheme details
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/grants-programsl
  

• Schemes: Research Grants
• Eligibility: See website
• Maximum funding amount: 1000GBP
• Deadlines: Contact RSGS
• Further details:
  Website: http://www.rsgs.org/grantsandfunding/index.html
  

• Funding your graduate research: http://home.att.net/~ophiuroid/html/finance.html
• PaleoFund: http://www.paleofund.org/student.html
  



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