Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of the Animal Behavior Society. Members of the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior are eligible for the Cetacean Behavior Conservation grant. The ABS also offers the Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations. Research grants range from $500 to $2000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Applications for all of the awards are submitted in the same online application system; there is an opportunity in the application to specify for which type of award you would like to be considered.

Preparing the Grant

The Research Application must consist of the following components and all of these pages must conform