[Sextonlabpastmembers] Fwd: GLORIA Great Basin Peak Opportunity Fellowship

[Jason Sexton]

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From: Seema Sheth <ssheth3 at ncsu.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Subject: GLORIA Great Basin Peak Opportunity Fellowship
To: Jason Sexton <jsexton2 at ucmerced.edu>


Dear Jay,

I am writing to you as the Science Director of GLORIA Great Basin
<http://www.gloriagreatbasin.org/>, a non-profit organization that studies
the long-term effects of climate change on alpine plant communities on 29
mountain peaks in California and Nevada. GLORIA Great Basin surveys have
long been an amazing opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain
invaluable field experience in botany and field ecology while making
connections with their peers and professionals in non-profits, academia,
and in state and federal agencies.

However, GLORIA Great Basin also recognizes that there are marginalized
groups that face barriers which exclude them from research opportunities,
especially for opportunities in remote mountains that pose unique
challenges with required transportation, field gear, and time. *Through our
Peak Opportunity Fellowships, GLORIA Great Basin will fully support two
students (upper-division undergraduate or graduate students) to join us on
White Mountains or Sweetwater Mountains surveys this summer.* We will
provide the successful applicants with transportation, field gear, room and
board, and wages (totaling $2,500 per student), and mentorship (e.g.,
facilitating networking, providing guidance on job applications, etc.) both
leading up to and following the field campaign.

Please share the attached flyer or this link
<https://www.gloriagreatbasin.org/_files/ugd/ab4221_33b6272c3fbe4dcf8ad9536c95e686d5.pdf>
with
any upper-level undergraduate or graduate students you think might be
interested in applying.

Thanks,
Seema

-- 
Seema Sheth (she/her)
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
North Carolina State University
seemasheth.weebly.com


-- 
Jason (Jay) Sexton
(he/him/his)
Associate Professor
Chair, UC Merced Greenhouses Committee
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of California, Merced
231 Science and Engineering Building 1
jsexton2 at ucmerced.edu
http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/
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