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James R. Koplin Travel Award
The James R. Koplin Travel Award is given to a student who is the senior author and presenter of a paper or poster to be presented at the RRF meeting for which travel funds are requested. A recipient from a previous year cannot apply in following years if working on the same degree. Applicants with the greatest financial need will receive the greatest consideration. The selection committee must receive all application materials by the deadline for regular abstracts. That date is included in the announcement of RRF’s annual meeting sent each year to the membership. Materials can be submitted by regular mail or email.
IN MEMORIAM: JAMES R. KOPLIN 1934-1987
Application materials include:
- A cover letter.
- A project description not to exceed one page, single spaced. The project description should be as detailed as one page will permit, and must include a brief introduction outlining the significance and importance of the research, a description of methods, including the analytical approach, and results.
- An itemized budget of costs associated with attending the meeting and an explanation of how the expenses not covered by this award will be met. The itemized budget should include an explanation of how the expenses not covered by the award will be met.
- A letter of recommendation from the student’s major professor. The letter of recommendation is extremely important, and should contain a thorough evaluation of the applicant’s academic abilities, the significance of the research, the student’s relative contribution to the research, and his or her potential for future contributions to the field of raptor biology. The professor’s evaluation may be sent under separate cover, but must arrive by the application deadline.
Amount: Up to $500 can be requested. The award will also include a banquet ticket.
Number of Awards Issued per Year: 3
Deadline: Due date for meeting abstract
Contact: Jim Harper, PO Box 4187, Medford, OR 97501; tel. 541-779-2294; e-mail: harptech@msn.com
RRF Director and Awards Committee Chair, Clint Boal (USA) congratulates Romeo Tinajero (Mexico), winner of the 2010 James R Koplin Student Travel Award. Dan Varland photo.
Recent Recipients:
| Year | Koplin Recipient | |
| 2011 | Kristin Keyes | “Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) spatial origins across North America: a stable isotope approach” |
| 2011 | Jean-Francois Therrien | “Avian predators play a key role in population regulation and energy flux of the arctic tundra food web” |
| 2011 | Ben Skipper | “Is aggressive nest defense by urban Mississippi Kites (Ictinia mississippiensis) triggered by landscape features?” |
| 2010 | Romeo Tinajero | “Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on the Breeding Ecology and Territory Size of Harris’s Hawks in the Desert of Baja California Sur, México” |
| 2009 | No applications received | |
| 2008 | Sofi Hindmarch | “Habitat Transformed: How is Barn Owl (Tyto alba) Distribution and Breeding Success Influenced by Land Use in The Fraser Valley, British Colombia?” |
| 2007 | Unknown | |
| 2006 | RRF contributed its travel award to the NAOC pool of student travel funds | |
| 2005 | Jessi L. Brown | Exploring Aplomado Falcon Nest Success by Modeling Daily Nest Survival Rates |
| 2004 | Nicole Taylor | Nestling sex ratio variation in Burrowing Owls |
| 2003 | Colleen Moulton | Territory defense of nesting Burrowing Owls: responses to simulated conspecific intrusion |
| 2002 | Unknown | |
| 2001 | Unknown | |
| 2000 | Unknown | |
| 1999 | Caroline E. Deppe | Do eyespots on Northern Pygmy Owls influence avian mobbing behaviour? |
| 1999 | Brian W. Smith | ” Ectoparasites on Burrowing Owls: potential effects on nest site re-use and growth, body condition and survival of juveniles” |
| 1998 | Not awarded | |
| 1997 | Brian Smith | Burrowing Owls prefer large nest chambers: results of experiments using artificial burrows |
| 1996 | Ruth Tingay | ” Philopatry and inter-year nest site fidelity in American Kestrels near Hawk Mountain, PA” |
| 1995 | Daniel R. Ardia | Effect of time of day and weather on survey route efficiency for non-breeding American Kestrels |
| 1994 | Johanna M. Ward | Effects of experimental food addition on the reproductive ecology of the Northern Goshawk during brood rearing |
| 1993 | Elsie V. Schmidt | Morphological and genetic variation in migratory raptors |
| 1992 | Laura B. Rivera-Rodriguez | |
| 1991 | James R. Duncan | |
| 1990 | Bryan Kimsey | |
| 1989 | Vanessa M. Dickinson | |
| 1989 | Gustavo D. Danemann |
