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Marine Turtle Newsletter 101:45, © 2003

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Travel Assistance for the 24th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation in San Jose, Costa Rica


The Travel Committee for the 2004 Symposium are pleased to announce that limited travel funds are available to assist participants in their efforts to attend the 2004 Symposium in San Jose, Costa Rica. As in previous years, awards should not be expected to cover the full cost of symposium travel. Priority will be given to those who will be presenting papers or posters, those who apply before the deadline, 15 November 2004, and to individuals from relatively under-represented regions. The committee looks favorably on those who demonstrate efforts to secure additional sources of travel funds or matching grants. If you are in need of assistance for travel to the 2004 Symposium in San Jose, Costa Rica, apply via the symposium webpage, which will be based at <https://seaturtle.org/> before the deadline. No late applications will be considered.

Applicants should follow this procedure:


  1. Register for the symposium
  2. Submit your abstract to the symposium for consideration (required for travel applicants from USA and Canada)
  3. Using your symposium registration number, complete the online travel grant application in full, prior to the 15 November 2003 deadline.

Applicants should apply to the region from which they are traveling from, NOT where the research was conducted. Awards will be announced by 15 January 2004, and all recipients are expected to apply for visas immediately upon award if they have not already done so. Please contact the appropriate Regional Chair with any questions. It is greatly preferred that all correspondence is carried out by e-mail/internet; however, if this is impossible to access an online computer, applicants can make contact with their Regional Chairs by fax. Grant recipients are expected to attend the entire symposium.

Travel support contacts:

Travel Committee Chair:
Jeffrey A. Seminoff <jeffrey.seminoff@noaa.gov>
Fax (USA): +858 546 7003

Regional Chair - Africa:
Angela Formia <formiaa@cardiff.ac.uk>
Fax: (UK) + 44 2920 874 305

Regional Chair - Asia and Pacific:
Nicolas J. Pilcher <pilcher@tm.net.my>
Fax: (Palau) +680 488 8730, (Malaysia) + 608 8243000

Regional Chair - Caribbean (English-speaking):
Karen Eckert <widecast@ix.netcom.com>
Fax: (USA) +858 451 6986

Regional Co-Chairs - Europe:
Brendan Godley and Annette Broderick <MTN@swan.ac.uk>
Fax: (UK) +44 1792 295 447

Regional Chair - Latin America and Spanish-speaking Caribbean:
Ana R. Barragan <arbr@mixmail.com>
Fax: (México) +52 525 676 5502

Regional Chair - USA and Canada:
Alan Bolten <abb@zoology.ufl.edu>
Fax: (USA) +352 392 9166