Green-Wood Research Fellowship Award in Urban Environmental Science
Green-Wood’s 2025 environmental research fellowship award application is currently open! This year’s grant award is up to $10k for emerging investigators to conduct research in urban ecology, climate change, horticulture, etc. using Green-Wood as a field site with total access to the collections. Proposals are due on or before January 31, 2025. The application is found here: https://www.green-wood.com/green-wood-research-award-in-urban-environmental-science/
Green-Wood is a world-renowned arboretum featuring a dynamic living collection comprised of about 8,000 specimens representing 695 taxa, 61 taxonomic families, and 159 different genera. Some of Green-Wood’s oldest specimens predate the Cemetery’s founding in 1838, and the collection continues to grow—each new planting is selected for its climate adaptiveness, wildlife value, enhancement of the beauty of the landscape, and resilience. Every year Green-Wood’s living collection is responsible for sequestering 264,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide, removing 12,000 lbs. of pollution from the air we breathe, and mitigating 2,620,000 gallons of stormwater from overwhelming Brooklyn’s sewage system.
Awards are granted to support research expenses and/or travel expenses associated with the proposed research. Project proposals will be reviewed and considered for funding up to a maximum of $10,000, but applicants are encouraged to leverage and combine funds with other sources of financial support to foster more ambitious projects. Multi-year projects may be eligible for continued funding, but a renewal proposal and progress report will be required for each year of Green-Wood support, and the entire cohort of proposals will be reviewed collectively each year, so there is no guarantee of continued funding for multi-year projects.
In addition to the monetary award, researchers will have access to Green-Wood’s collections and landscape assets; data associated with plant records and wildlife; map layers; Esri GIS software and mobile app tools; support staff who can operate digging machines and electricians to assist with monitoring and other devices; storage space for equipment; freezers and refrigerators to store samples temporarily; and office space with desktops.
Proposals are due on or before January 31, 2025.
The project term is March 3, 2025, to February 28, 2026. Award recipients will be expected to participate in a program hosted by Green-Wood in the latter half of the award term to educate the public on the research study. A final report including project outcomes and impacts will be due by March 1, 2025. Final reports will be made available to interested stakeholders via the Internet and/or in printed form, and should include figures, tables, photographs, and other appropriate documentation for each project, written in a style and form accessible to non-scientists.