Funder: American Museum of Natural History
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Generally $500–$3,500 for short-term seed research
Summary: Supports early-career researchers studying marine life and environments through systematics, evolution, ecology, zoology, or paleontology.
Key Information: Botany and biochemistry are excluded; North American freshwater research belongs in the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants program.
Description
The American Museum of Natural History offers Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research Grants through its Richard Gilder Graduate School grants program. These modest, short-term awards provide seed support for early-career researchers, including all doctoral students, pursuing research on marine life and the environments in which it occurs.
The program supports work in systematics, evolution, ecology, zoology, and paleontology rather than a single marine research topic. Its purpose is to seed research, not provide long-term research funding. Research in botany or biochemistry is outside the fund’s scope, and applicants proposing freshwater research in North America are directed to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants instead.
