Robert G. Wetzel Memorial Travel Award
The Robert G. Wetzel Memorial Fund was created in 2005 through a request from Robert G. Wetzel. Following one of Robert Wetzel’s highest priorities, this fund will be used each congress to pay SIL-related expenses of young limnologists throughout the world that might otherwise be unable to participate in SIL activities. The Wetzel Memorial Fund is used for travel support of those who are presenting a paper at the current congress meeting. The first time this award was given was for the 2013 SIL Congress in Budapest.
Biographical profile of Robert G. Wetzel (1936-2005) >>>
Tonolli and Wetzel Awards Committee >>>
Information and application forms can be downloaded here >>>
Eligible applicants are SIL members that have not received the award in the past.
Deadline for applications for travel awards for the 2022 SIL Congress in Berlin (Germany) is March 28, 2022.
Robert G. Wetzel Memorial Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Country |
| 2018 | Kemal Ger | Brazil |
| Melaku Getachew | Ethiopia | |
| Maja Grubisic | Germany | |
| Maciej Karpowicz | Poland | |
| Veronica Nava | Italy | |
| Simon Donald Stewart | New Zealand | |
| R. Iestyn Woolway | UK | |
| Iuliia Zvereva | Russia | |
| 2016 | Arranz Urgell | Spain |
| Atia Saber | Egypt | |
| Ewa Babkiewicz | Poland | |
| Mireia Bartrons | Spain | |
| Bastidas Navarro | Argentina | |
| Tatiana Chuzhekova | Russia | |
| Veronika Dashkova | Kazakhstan | |
| Zeynep Ersoy | Turkey | |
| Marina Gerea | Argentina | |
| Eyerusalem Goitom | Ethiopia | |
| Theodore “Ted” Harris | USA | |
| Işkın Uğur | Turkey | |
| Jasmina Kamberović | Bosnia | |
| Lourenco Amorim Pereira | Brazil | |
| Jing Lu | China | |
| Piotr Maszczyk | Poland | |
| Amanda Neilen | Australia | |
| Georg Niedrist | Italy | |
| Krisztián Nyeste | Hungary | |
| Okechukwu Okogwu | Nigeria | |
| Jeremy Piggott | New Zealand | |
| Anna Rigosi | Italy | |
| Renee Rossini | Australia | |
| Carolina Soto Cárdenas | Argentina | |
| Duygu Tolunay | Turkey | |
| Man Xiao | China | |
| 2013 | András Abonyi | Hungary |
| Maciej Bartosiewicz | Poland | |
| Lucy Crockford | Ireland | |
| Aurea Luiza Lemes da Silva | Brazil | |
| Milena Pavlova | Bulgaria | |
| Caitlin Riddick | USA | |
| Xiaoqing Tiam | China |
