Travel Dates Covered: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025.
Application Deadlines:
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Domestic: No less than
30 days prior to scheduled departure date OR your internal campus deadline for domestic travel, whichever is earlier.
- Please note: As of September 2023, the state travel ban is no longer in effect after Newsom signed California's Senate Bill 447, which repealed the state travel ban law.
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International: No less than
60 days prior to scheduled departure date OR your internal campus deadline for international travel, whichever is earlier.
- U.S. Territories are considered international for this purpose.
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Remote: No less than
30 days prior to remote conference commencement.
Award Notification: 2-4 weeks following submission of complete application.
Maximum Award Amount:
- $1,000 for domestic travel within the continental US (lower 48 states, excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
- $1,500 for travel outside of the continental US (Alaska, Hawaii, US territories and international destinations).
- $500 for remote conference registration fees.
Eligibility: Awardees must be enrolled CSU students or continuing CSU students
during the conference. Awards cannot be used for conferences that occur after a student has graduated.
Students who are members of groups that have been historically excluded from marine and coastal science, including students who are Hispanic, Latina/o, Black or African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaska Native or a combination of ethnicities; noncitizens; female; LGBTQIA+; first-in-family; economically disadvantaged; veterans; have disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants of any race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, immigration status, national origin, age, dis/ability or veteran status are welcome.
Award Payment: This is a
reimbursable award. Awardees must expend their own funds to attend the conference and will be reimbursed for eligible expenses afterward.
Contact: Please contact Lora Johansen (
[email protected]), COAST Program Analyst, with any questions you may have.
Eligibility
Students who are members of a group that has been historically excluded from marine and coastal science, including students who are Hispanic, Latina/o, Black or African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native; female; LGBTQIA+; first-generation college students; economically disadvantaged; veterans; and students with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants of any race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, dis/ability or veteran status are welcome.
- Applicants must be full or part-time CSU students in good standing.
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Awardees must be enrolled CSU students or continuing CSU students during the conference.
- There are no citizenship requirements.
- Student travel awards are limited to one award per student per academic year (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025).
- Previous COAST Student Travel Award recipients are eligible to apply provided they have met the obligations of their previous award; however, preference will be given to new applicants.
- Applicants must provide evidence of an accepted abstract.
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You may apply for an award once you have submitted an abstract and are awaiting notification of acceptance.
- Please note in your application that abstract acceptance is pending. Your application will be held in the queue. Once you receive notification of abstract acceptance, please forward that to COAST.
- Applicants must identify a CSU faculty mentor.
- Faculty mentors include tenured/tenure track faculty, adjunct faculty, lecturers and research faculty.
- Applicant must be the presenting author. COAST will only provide funding for one presenting author per presentation.
- Travel to meetings convened by other
CSU affinity groups is not eligible for funding.
- COAST reserves the right to limit the amount of funding awarded to any one scientific conference.
- COAST reserves the right to award an amount different than that requested and to make final decisions regarding all applications.
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Please note: As of September 2023, the state travel ban is no longer in effect after Newsom signed California’s Senate Bill 447, which repealed the state travel ban law.