Caregiver Awards distributed by the FCP can be used for any additional caregiving expenses related to conducting travel-related work activities. Examples include, but are not limited to: travel and other costs associated with bringing dependents to meetings and field sites, compensation for professional or informal caregivers in the primary caregiver’s absence, travel expenses such as transportation for an alternate caregiver to travel to the dependent’s home or to accompany the primary caregiver and the dependent to the conference/fieldwork, and breast milk or medicine storage and shipping.

Eligibility: Caregiver awards support permafrost-related work for researchers, scientists, and engineers at US-based institutions and companies. Applicants must be USPA members prior to applying. We accept applications for all types of human care (e.g. childcare, sick-care, elder-care and other) for family members of the permafrost community.