Marty Seldon Student Travel Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 15, 2010
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 Student Application link for the form. Please submit electronically to Awards Chairman Jim Daley.
This scholarship honors the long history of Martin M. (Marty) Seldon’s dedication to fisheries conservation. Marty has played a long and active role as an advocate of wild trout, and has been an enthusiastic volunteer for the Wild Trout Symposium Organizing Committee since Wild Trout-II in 1979. Over the years Marty has been active on the Photography, Awards, and Program Committees, and has chaired the Awards Committee for WT-VII and WT-VIII, and served as its co-chair for WT-IX in 2007. Marty has continued to be active on the Organizing Committee for WT-X.
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.
Marty and his wife Rita live in Sunnyvale, California and have two children and three grandchildren in San Francisco and Eugene, Oregon.
TUFFF Wild Trout Stewardship Award
Nomination Deadline: May 15, 2010
The “TUFFF Wild Trout Stewardship Award” is conferred by the International Wild Trout Symposium for the implementation of an outstanding fishery project or plan that makes a significant contribution to the conservation, protection, restoration, or enhancement of a cold water fishery.
This award is made to a club, group, or other organization. The Symposium Awards Committee reviews all nominations and selects recipients. This award is reviewed every three years in conjunction with the symposia and may be given to a single, more than a single recipient, or at times, may not be awarded, dependent on nominations received.
Nominations are due by May 15th of each symposium year and require a one to three page written justification and photographs that are suitable for publication in the proceedings of the symposium. It is expected that awardees will submit an abstract to the Program Committee for consideration of a presentation or a poster paper at the Wild Trout Symposium. All nominations are to be submitted electronically to Jim Daley, Awards Committee Chairman .
The award includes a certificate of achievement and an honorarium of $1,000. The Federation of Fly Fishers has already committed to funding half this amount and we are waiting to have TU respond.