Travel Dates Covered: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025.
Application Deadlines:
- 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- Please note: As of September 2023, the state travel ban is no longer in effect after Newsom signed California's Senate Bill 447, which repealed the state travel ban law.
- 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.
- 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.
COAST promotes research and education to advance our knowledge of ocean and coastal systems and disseminates scientific information to stakeholders for the development of responsible policy. The scope of COAST includes
- The open and coastal ocean;
- Coastal zones (bays, estuaries, beaches);
- Coastal watersheds: the organism, material or process being studied in the watershed must have a clear and direct impact on the downstream marine environment (e.g., anadromous fish, surface and groundwater flow, water quality).
The purpose of the COAST Student Travel Award Program is to increase CSU student participation in scientific conferences. COAST provides awards up to $1,000 for travel within the continental US, up to $1,500 for travel outside the continental US, and up to $500 for remote conference registration fees to continuing CSU undergraduate and graduate students to attend and present the results of ocean and coastal research at scientific conferences with the ultimate goals of 1) enhancing student experiences, 2) engaging the broader scientific community, and 3) highlighting the value of CSU research at state, national, and international levels.
Up to $40,000 is available for student travel support and will be divided evenly among four quarters:
- July 1-September 30, 2024;
- October 1-December 31, 2024;
- January 1-March 31, 2025;
- April 1-June 30, 2025.
All funding described in this announcement is contingent upon legislatively appropriated funds received by the California State University.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.