The ICS has provided financial support for international research conferences and symposia, including:

2011 - Laurentia 2011 Field Excursion, Arizona and Nevada (International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy)
2007 - Laurentia 2007 Field Excursion, New York State and Vermont (International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy)
2004 - Korea 2004 Field Excursion (International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy)
1999 - Laurentia 1999 Field Excursion, Utah, Nevada, and California (International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy)
1997 - The 2nd International Trilobite Conference, St. Catherines, Canada
1990 - The 3rd International Symposium on the Cambrian System, Novosibirsk, USSR

Grants-in-Aid

Occasionally the ICS is able to offer Grants-in-Aid to Ph.D. and occasionally M.S. candidates in order to help them pursue their field and laboratory investigations. Other assistance is offered to Cambrian scholars by providing access to the ICS Research Library and Collections.
The ICS By-Laws establish that Grants-in-Aid may be awarded to bonafide public research institutions, established research scientists, and promising doctoral-level graduate students for support of projects consistent with the objectives and purposes of the Institute. Grants-in-Aid may be made to individuals for (1) travel to attend formal scientific meetings; (2) travel related to geologic or paleontologic field investigations; (3) travel to study scientific materials in museums; and (4) support of financial costs, all or in part, of publishing scholarly research reports. Grants-in-Aid may be made to institutions in the form of funds, equipment, or supplies that facilitate the objectives and purposes of the Institute.
When Grants-in-Aid are available, application information will be posted on the ICS web page.

Former Grants-in-Aid Recipients

2008 - Fred Sundberg, Show Low High School, AZ. Air-travel Grant, Fourth International Trilobite Conference (Trilo-08) - Toledo, Spain.
2007 - Robyn A. Howley, University of Nevada Las Vegas ($1000). Integrated sequence and chemostratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian succession in Nevada and western Utah.
2007 - Melanie. J. Hopkins, University of Chicago ($671). Using Cambrian trilobites to investigate the relationship between morphological duration and fossil species duration.
2006 - Robyn A. Howley, University of Nevada Las Vegas ($1000). Integrated stratigraphic framework of Middle Cambrian carbonates and siliciclastics in Nevada and Utah: implications for local tectonics, sedimentation and sea level on a passive margin.
2006 - Patrick Getty, Amherst College ($700). Are mollusks among the first animals to make the marine terrestrial transition? Comparing modern gastropod trackways with the Cambrian trace fossil Climactichnites.
2006 - Jennifer Eoff, University of Oklahoma ($700). Sequence stratigraphic context of Cambrian extinctions: trilobite faunas, stratigraphy and sedimentary facies of the Eau Claire Formation and Tunnel City Group, Upper Mississippi Valley.
2006 - Melanie J. Hopkins, University of Chicago ($700). Morphological variability of trilobite species occurring in multiple environments.
2004 - Bjorn Brooks, University of Iowa ($1000). Cambrian soft-bodied deposits in Australia, Utah, and Russia.
2003 - Melissa Hicks, University of Nevada Las Vegas ($1000). Reefs in Crisis: global assessment of Lower Cambrian reef decline, Nevada, China, Labrador.
2003 - Tin-Wai Ng, University of Iowa ($500). Studies of Late Marjuman trilobites in the Great Basin.
2003 - Bryan Wilbur, University of Texas ($500). Studies of Early Cambrian Echinoderms.
1995 - Matthew R. Saltzman, University of California, Los Angeles ($500). Isotopic and Field Investigation of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid and Early Ptychaspid Biomeres, Western U.S.