Grants

The Waterbird Society Research Grants

**No Grant Applications will be received in 2009 due to the economic downturn.  We hope to reopen in 2010.**

The Waterbird Society periodically awards grants for research in the science and conservation of waterbirds. These grants were established from funds provided by the generosity of two former Presidents of the Waterbird Society. The Waterbird Society is very grateful to receive the funds and encourages others to consider financially supporting the Society.

Jim Kushlan has been a driving force behind research and conservation of the world’s herons for over three decades. He was Director of the Patuxent Environmental Science Center for the US Geological Service, Chair of the Department of Biology at the University of Mississippi, Director of the Center for Water Resources Studies at East Texas State University, and Research Biologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior. Dr. Kushlan received his doctorate from the University of Miami in 1974 and has written or co-authored scores of scientific papers and scholarly books. The generous grant to the Waterbird Society in 2000 established an endowment to provide support for the research award in his name. Click here to apply. Click here to view past Recipients

Ian Nisbet has provided steady direction and vision to the emergence of the Waterbird Society as an international ornithological society. He is well-known for his research on terns and gulls. Ian and Shirely Nisbet began in 2000 to build an endowment to provide funds for research. Preference is given to proposals for research on terns or gulls. Click here to apply. Click here to view past Recipients.