H.B.N. Hynes Scholarship
Canadian Rivers Institute
Value: $1000
The scholarship is named in honour of Dr. H.B. Noel Hynes who is known as the "the father of running water ecology". The most renowned of freshwater biologists, Dr. Hynes wrote the first comprehensive running waters text book, "The Ecology of Running Waters" following his book on "The Biology of Polluted Waters". He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1978, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Biology and the American Society for the Advancement of Science, Distinguished Emeritus Professor (Waterloo), and he held Honourary Degrees at Universities of London, Waterloo, and New Brunswick. Among his awards are the Canadian Centenary Medal (1967), the Colonel Hilary Jolly Award of the Australian Society of Limnology (1985), the Award of Excellence from the North American Benthological Society (1988), and the Naumann-Thienemann Medal (1998) the highest award afforded an aquatic biologist by the Societas Internationalis Limnologiciae.
Who can apply?
CRI Graduate Students in their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Year
Application process and timeline.
- An application cover letter (1 page maximum) – evaluated at 30%
- Your proposed or completed research (summary 3 pages maximum) - 40%
- A CV (2 pages maximum) - 15%
- A transcript - 15%
Submissions must include all of the above. They will be evaluated by a committee of the CRI Management Board and Emeritus and Honorary Fellows.
Please submit your completed application to cri@unb.ca in PDF no later than 5 pm Atlantic time August 1, 2012
Award announcement
The successful recipient will be announced during CRI Days on September 29, 2012 in Quebec City.
