2025 Conference Awards & Waivers

The Society offers a variety of awards and fellowships.

Student Academic Awards

• The Barbara Lawrence Award
  Abstracts due: January 1 EXTENDED to Jan 24, 2025
  Final application due: April 30, 2025
   
• Best Poster Award
  Abstracts due:  January 1 EXTENDED to Jan 24, 2025

Mentor Award

Nomination deadline: February 28, 2025
The call for nominations will go out January 1.

NEW Awards

• Early Career Award in Ethnobiology
• Citation for Distinguished Service
• Communities and Ethnobiology Grant

Visa/Invitation Letter Requests

The visa/invitation letter request form is now closed.

Submission deadline: December 15, 2024 EXTENDED to January 15, 2025.

Visa/Invitation Letter Request Form

Awards No Longer Accepting Applications

Conference Travel Awards & Waivers

• Indigenous Peoples' Conference Travel Award
• Majority World Conference Travel Award
• Student Conference Travel Award
• Conference Registration and Membership Fee Waivers

Application deadline: December 1, 2024

Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award (DEB)

Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award (UEB)

Nomination deadline for DEB and UEB: November 15, 2024

Graduate Student Fellowships

• Jessica Mae Orozco Indigenous Ethnobiologist Fellowship
• Urban Ethnobiology Fellowship
• Justin Nolan Ecological Knowledge Fellowship

Note: Students may apply for more than one fellowship, but can only win one fellowship.

Application deadline: December 31, 2024