{"id":1424,"date":"2019-02-05T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/?page_id=1424"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:35:47","slug":"apply-for-travel-assistance-to-the-2019-esaussee-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/apply-for-travel-assistance-to-the-2019-esaussee-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for Travel Assistance to the 2019 ESA+USSEE Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Laura Huenneke\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/2FI6Zdp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged to make the 2019 ESA+USSEE Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, more accessible<\/a> for those facing barriers to attend, and announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/2D4T3IW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up to $30,000 donated to the Opportunity Fund<\/a> in 2018-19 would be directed to provide travel assistance. These donations will provide travel grants to those lacking institutional or grant support and to those who will bring diverse personal perspectives to the meeting theme of\u00a0<strong>\u201cInclusion: an ecological imperative.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p><em>There is still time to help us reach the goal of raising $30,000 for fund travel awards by <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/esa\/donate\/opportunity-fund-donation-form\/\">contributing to the Opportunity Fund<\/a><\/em><em> today!<\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Applicants for travel awards must meet these requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\r\n\t<li>Be an ESA member<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Have submitted an abstract, or is participating in a workshop, organized oral session or Inspire session, or is involved in other Society business<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travel awards will be given on a first-come, first-served basis until available funds are depleted, so please complete the following form\u00a0<strong>as soon as possible.<\/strong>\u00a0We anticipate that those who apply will have exhausted all other financial means to attend the meeting. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning on <strong>March 15<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We have reached the anticipated cap on available funds and will no longer be accepting applications. Please contact jon@esa.org if you have any questions.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is expected that funds awarded will be used to fund this travel, and that documentation will be provided to ESA upon request. Any unspent funds will be returned to ESA.\u00a0Please note that members are not eligible to receive more than one ESA travel award (from this fund, student awards, section, etc.).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Laura Huenneke\u00a0pledged to make the 2019 ESA+USSEE Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, more accessible for those facing barriers to attend, and announced that up to $30,000 donated to the Opportunity Fund in 2018-19 would be directed to provide travel assistance. These donations will provide travel grants to those lacking institutional or grant support and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1424\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/louisville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}