Journey grant help for early Profession Environmental scientist from low earnings nation.

Dear AGU member Colleagues, I hope you’re doing properly.

My identify is Guchale Debebe, an AGU member and an Environmental Pollution and Climate Change Analyst primarily based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I just lately submitted my summary entitled “Atmospheric Deposition as an Indicator of Urban Air Pollution in Residential, Traffic, and Industrial Areas of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia” for consideration on the AGU Annual Meeting 2026 in San Francisco. As an AGU member from a low-income nation, I’m grateful that my convention registration charge has been waived.

I sincerely admire AGU’s dedication to supporting researchers from underrepresented areas. I’m writing to respectfully inquire whether or not there are any alternatives for journey funding, lodging help, or different monetary help that might allow my participation in AGU26. I might additionally be thankful for an official invitation letter to help my visa utility ought to my summary be accepted.

I’m a first-generation college graduate, an early-career environmental scientist from a rural farming neighborhood, and I maintain an MSc in Environmental Management. My analysis focuses on atmospheric air pollution, together with atmospheric deposition, acid rain, and concrete air high quality in Ethiopia. My work contributes precious information from a area the place long-term atmospheric monitoring stays restricted. In addition to my analysis, I’ve participated in a number of worldwide local weather initiatives, together with UNFCCC Climate Week 2025, the Second African Climate Summit (ACS2), the UNEP Youth Environment Assembly, GEO-7 consultations, and the Youth and Ocean Summit. Through these engagements, I advocate for local weather justice and evidence-based environmental coverage. Attending AGU26 would enable me to current analysis from Ethiopia, interact with main scientists, set up worldwide collaborations, and produce new data and expertise again to my nation. Because of restricted monetary assets, the prices of worldwide journey and lodging stay past my means.

 If you’re conscious of any journey grants, lodging help, departmental funding, or sponsorship alternatives obtainable by means of AGU sections, focus teams, accomplice organizations, or analysis networks, I might be sincerely grateful on your steerage or consideration. Thank you very a lot on your time and help. I admire any recommendation or help you possibly can present, and sit up for contributing to the AGU neighborhood. Kind regards, Guchale Debebe Environmental Pollution and Climate Change Analyst AGU Member Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [email protected]

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Guchale Debebe
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