Ron Remmick Undergraduate Student Scholarship
Application Deadline: July 15, 2013
This award will recognize one outstanding undergraduate student with a strong interest in conservation and restoration of native trout, and is offered to encourage their participation in Wild Trout Symposia. This award consists of a $400 stipend to further those pursuits.
Awards are open to undergraduate students working toward a career in the Natural Fisheries Resource Management or related field. Applicants will be judged on a combination of an essay written by the applicant and a letter of reference. Click on Remmick Undergraduate Student Application for the form. Please submit electronically to Remmick Scholarship Chairman Robert Gresswell (bgresswell@usgs.gov).
Marty Seldon Graduate Student Travel Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 1, 2013
In order to recognize outstanding students in the field of fisheries management and biology, and to encourage their participation in Wild Trout Symposia, two students will be awarded with Marty Seldon Student Scholarships at each symposium. Each award consists of a $500 stipend to assist student travel or other costs incurred in their attendance.
Awards are open to graduate students in Fisheries Management or related field. Applicants will be judged on a combination of current graduate GPA and an essay written by the applicant. Click on the Seldon Student Application link for the form. Please submit electronically to Awards Chairman Liz Mamer (liz.mamer@idfg.idaho.gov).
This scholarship honors the long history of Martin M. (Marty) Seldon’s dedication to fisheries conservation. Marty played a long and active role as an advocate of wild trout, and was an enthusiastic volunteer for the Wild Trout Symposium Organizing Committee since Wild Trout-II in 1979. Over the years Marty was active on the Photography, Awards, and Program Committees, and chaired the Awards Committee for WT-VII and WT-VIII, and served as its co-chair for WT-IX. Through this award, the Wild Trout Symposium hopes to further Marty's vision of continued stewardship and preservation of cold-water fisheries by sharing the opportunity to attend the meeting.
Among many others, he received the Federation of Fly Fishers’ highest honor, The Order of the Lapis Lazuli Award. He was also the Wild Trout Symposium’s first nonprofessional category Aldo Starker Leopold Wild Trout Medal recipient at Wild Trout-III in 1984.
Marty’s long involvement in wild trout conservation began in the 1960’s, when Marty wrote fishing columns for San Francisco and Central Valley fishing newspapers and was Angler Magazine Conservation Editor. Over the year’s Marty has written extensively on catch-and-release fishing.
Marty has served as a Trout Unlimited chapter president, was a founding director of CalTrout, and has been a Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) volunteer since 1972. Marty has also served as the Conservation Vice President of the Northern California Council FFF and from 1976-1986 was on the FFF Executive Committee as Senior Vice President Conservation. He has been Chairman of the FFF International Relations and Fish and Wildlife Committees, and managed several FFF fly fishing industry databases. He is presently a FFF Northern California/Northern Nevada Council Director, and a FFF Senior Advisor.
