Aiming to empower postdoctoral fellows in marine research to take full advantage of professional development and career-building opportunities via top-up funding, the Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) Awards launched in 2018, garnering interest from a pool of promising candidates. Since then, the PDF Awards have supported three cohorts of researchers—2018, 2019 and 2020.
The purpose of these awards was to bring new postdoctoral fellows into the network to connect them with MEOPAR-funded researchers and HQP. Proposed research activities were required to address MEOPAR’s organizational objective (to connect partners, resources and expertise to prepare for risks and take advantage of opportunities in the changing marine environment), and must be linked to one of MEOPAR’s four challenge areas: Ocean Observation; Forecasting/Projection; Coastal Resilience; and Marine Operations/Transportation.
