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The GCA Fellowship in Ecological Restoration supports specialized graduate study and research in ecological restoration. Ecological restoration is defined as the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. The fellowship seeks to initiate or accelerate ecosystem recovery following damage, degradation, or destruction. The goal of this fellowship is to support research that will advance knowledge and increase the number of scientists in the important field of ecological restoration, the active healing of the land. The fellowship provides an annual grant of $8,000 for study and research at a leading accredited university in the United States. Fields of study of past recipients have ranged from forestry to applied plant sciences to ecology and evolutionary biology.