Every year the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation presents the Navjot Sodhi Conservation Research Award to a student from a developing country conducting research in tropical conservation biology. This award is in remembrance and recognition of the contributions of our colleague and friend Navjot Sodhi, who inspired many students and colleagues with his passion for research and the conservation of tropical biodiversity. The selected recipient will receive a cash award of $1000 to be used towards research-related expenses that will enhance an ongoing project in tropical biodiversity conservation. Publications using data or other information that were obtained with the support of an ATBC grant should include the following language in the acknowledgments section: “This research was supported by a Seed Research Grant from the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation."
Applicants should apply for either the Sodhi or the Seed Grant Awards. If an applicant applies to both the Sodhi and Seed grant they will only be considered for one (the most suitable funding stream for the application).
A full description of this year’s Navjot Sodhi Conservation Research Award Guidelines can be found here.
The application deadline is April 12, 2024 (5 am GMT).
Recipients
2024 - Priyanka Hari Haran: "How can agricultural landscapes better support bird species interactions?"
2023 - Sukhraj Kaur: "Native bees and sustainable agriculture: Investigating the impact of Apis cerana indica on crop yield in the northern Western Ghats of India"
2022 - Armando Dans Chavarria: "Establishing the baseline to protect and manage critically endangered mammals in one of the last strongholds for tropical biodiversity in southeast Nicaragua"
2021 - Anushka Rege: "Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of cashew monoculture expansion in northern Western Ghats, India"
2020 - Walter Djeny Mbamy: “Linking human activities and elephant movement around Ivindo National Park, Gabon”
2019 - Raul Costa-Pereira: "Overfishing and the fate of seed dispersal in tropical flooded habitats”
2018 - Fernando Silvério: "Invasion of native forests by free-ranging dogs: drivers, invasion risk, impacts and mechanisms"
2017 - Bernardo Flores: “Dispersal limitation as a bottleneck for tree recruitment in burnt Amazonian floodplain forests"
About Navjot S. Sodhi (1962-2011)
Navjot S. Sodhi was a Professor of Conservation Ecology at the National University of Singapore. An editor of Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, and Animal Conservation, Navjot received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
He has written/edited several books/monographs such as Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis (2006, Cambridge University Press), Tropical Conservation Biology (2007, Blackwell) and Conservation Biology for All (2010, Oxford, UK).
A recipient of the National Geographic Society grants, Navjot has also spent time at Harvard as Bullard Fellow and Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow, where he was an adjunct associate.
- The Loss of Our Council Member, Professor Navjot Sodhi (2010-2011)
- Memorial Fund for Dr. Navjot Sodhi
- Conservation of Tropical Birds, an edited volume by Navjot S. Sodhi, Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Jos Barlow and Scott Robinson.