The LA Urban Center for Natural Resources Sustainability's (LA Urban Center) mission is to serve as an information and research destination hub that fosters collaboration, generates new science, delivers information and technology to aid application, and engages diverse communities and knowledge bases through shared learning. Each year, we offer a fellowship program that provides research and science delivery opportunities for graduate students from a diversity of academic disciplines and backgrounds.
Selected fellows will conduct research projects that contribute to the core mission and vision of the LA Urban Center. Fellows receive a stipend of $5,000 and are asked to submit a work summary, translatable of their work (e.g. story map), and present their research findings at a seminar at the close of the fellowship period. Each fellow is expected to secure a research mentor with whom the Fellow will spend time working on data collection and professional development.
This year, the LA Urban Center is soliciting proposals that address the effects of the unprecedented 2020 wildfire season on the Los Angeles metropolitan area’s wildland-urban interface (WUI), urban forests, and communities.
The submission deadline is March 12, 2021.
