Student Research Awards are awarded annually to promising students studying Ornithology in Canada. The SCO-SOC administers four student research awards. For information about each award, click on the images below.
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Applicants must be SCO-SOC members to be eligible.
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Applicants must be registered as a student at the time the student research is carried out and the award funds are used
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A single application can be made to apply for all student research awards. Download the application form for the 2026 awards.
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Application deadline is 1 March 2026.
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​Applications for student research awards should be emailed to:
Chair, SCO-SOC Student Awards Committee
E-mail: studentawards@sco-soc.ca
Student Presentation Awards are awarded each year at our annual conference for outstanding oral and poster presentations. To be considered for these awards, student presenters must be current members of SCO-SOC and conducting research on any topic in ornithology. Students wishing to be considered for presentations awards should indicate their interest when they submit their abstracts for the conference scientific sessions. Click here for information about this year’s annual conference.
Presentation Award categories are outstanding oral presentation by a graduate student (2 awards), outstanding poster presentation by a graduate student (2 awards), and outstanding presentation (oral or poster) by an undergraduate student (1 award). Each prize is an honorarium of $300 (CND). Students competing for presentation awards should be presenting complete works, not proposals.
