The goal of the FishCAST undergraduate scholarship program is to offer students the opportunity to learn about collaborative research, encourage undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies, and allow students to having meaningful impacts in freshwater fisheries conservation and management. 

Financial Support 

Undergraduate students accepted in the FishCAST program may receive a scholarship of up to $6,000 to support a supervised research project on one of FishCAST’s research themes with the intent that the work will lead to a research-themed undergraduate honour’s thesis. 

Eligibility 

Students who show a high degree of motivation and whose coursework is concentrated in the related fields of FishCAST: ecology, limnology, genetics, conservation biology, and/or human dimensions. Students must already be enrolled in an undergraduate degree at: University of Windsor, Western University, University of Waterloo, Carleton University, University of Toronto – Scarborough, l’Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), or University of Manitoba. 

Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of B and be entering their final year as an undergraduate student. All students who apply to the FishCAST program must identify a professor (supervisor) who is a member of FishCAST and who is willing to supervise their work on one of FishCAST’s research themes. 

Admissions 

For information on our Admission process, please visit our application page. 

Successful applicants can hold a FishCAST undergraduate scholarship for one semester only.