Now Accepting Grant Applications – Deadline Extended!

The Explorers Club is pleased to announce that our grant application portal is once again open to receive submissions. The submission deadline has been extended until November 29 at 5:00 pm EST.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR:

• Rising Explorer Grant
• Exploration Fund Grant
• Rolex Explorers Club Grant
• Stephenson Explorers Advancement Program
• Fjällräven Field Grant
• Exodus Exploration Without Boundaries Grants

CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LISTING OF ALL EXPLORERS CLUB GRANTS

All grant categories will require you to submit the following via our online application system:

• One page description of your project with attention to scientific objectives
• Description of qualifications of your project associates and the specific sites of your proposed research
• One paragraph description of your career objectives and aspirations and how this project fits into that plan
• Letter of recommendation from your supervisor
• Copy of a current student ID
• Budget outline
• Education and outreach plan
• Media production plan
• Outline of Covid-19 precautions

Your proposal should be readily understandable to a reviewer of a discipline other than your own. Avoid heavy use of discipline specific jargon unless clearly defined. Keep your titles simple. Here’s an example.

• Clearly stated: “Grouping Dynamics of Woolly Monkeys in Lowland Ecuador”
• Too much jargon: “Phylogeography and landscape genomics of the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)”

Generally The Explorers Club considers research proposals in a wide array of disciplines, including:

• Climate Change, Geoscience, Paleoclimate (i.e. Early Earth, Tectonics, Volcanism, Paleontology, Glaciology, Geophysics, Astronomy)
• Marine Science, Marine Biology, Marine Life, Fish, Coral, Ocean, Fresh Water, Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries
• Anthropology/Archeology
• Plants and Molds
• Animals
• Conservation Science​

Deadline for applications is 5:00 PM EST, November 29, 2021.

TO APPLY, GO TO – https://grants.explorers.org/

Important things to note:

• All applications must be submitted through the online system. If you have trouble with registration, please email [email protected].
• Awards for applications submitted for the November 2021 deadline will be announced no sooner than March 2022.
• Unfortunately, The Explorers Club will not be able to consider research proposals for work being conducted in China or by Chinese citizens. The Explorers Club is considered a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and we do not comply with the Chinese regulations regarding grant awards by NGOs at this time.