The Excellence Fund: Get involved in Antarctica
The Excellence Fund is your invitation to be involved in the 2024-25 Antarctic Research Season, during the Icy Continent’s warmest and most hospitable months of October through to March.
With your donation, you can follow the science, talk with researchers, and be a partner in discovery.
Introducing The Excellence Fund
The reality of is simple: we have more questions to ask of Antarctica than funding dollars permit and only five months each year in the field looking for answers that will benefit us all.
Our supporters tell us they want to do something valuable and be involved in the face of bleak environmental news and the inaction of governments and businesses.
The ASF Excellence Fund is that opportunity to back Antarctic scientists who ask pressing, novel and potent research questions. By joining the Fund, you can be involved and gain insights over the next year from researchers creating ground-breaking new approaches in the area of YOUR CHOICE:
✅ mitigating the effects of climate change ☀️ 🌇 🌧️
✅ maintaining healthy oceans 🌊 🐟
✅ protection of Antarctic wildlife 🐋 🦭 🐧
✅ monitoring ice shelves, glaciers, and sea ice 🗻 ❄️ 🧊
✅ minimising biodiversity loss 🐠 🧬 🦀
✅ because penguins ! 🐧
WHY ANTARCTICA?
Antarctica is to our planet what the heart is to our body. It is the pulse that stirs the oceans. It’s a wellspring and sanctuary of life. And to any person who visits the Icy Continent, it is a first breath and vision of another chance, another path for humanity.
BENEFITS
When you are a supporter of The Excellence Fund, you will join a unique group of supporters for one year who will:
✅ choose the research area you are interested in supporting 🗳️
✅ get access links to interactive web sessions to meet, talk with and ask questions with researchers about their work 🖥️
✅ receive The Excellence Fund newsletter, with updates on projects and profiles of scientists supported by your donation 📰
WHY NOW?
All donations to The Excellence Fund up to mid-October will be allocated to researchers for projects across the 2024-25 Antarctic Research Season. To start us off, five current ASF supporters have stepped forward and generously pledged to MATCH every dollar given to The Excellence Fund up to $112,000 - doubling your impact in Antarctica this season.
EACH AND EVERY DOLLAR
The Antarctic Science Foundation’s current funding means that each dollar you give to The Excellence Fund No. 1 will be doubled and then go wholly and directly toward the research areas you choose in Antarctica.
Here is your chance to instantly DOUBLE your impact with vital Antarctic research this season.
JOIN US TODAY
We invite you to join other Friends of Antarctica as a supporter of the Excellence Fund:
- Participate in the conversations.
- Learn more.
- Gain the insights and see the results of the research being done in Antarctica.
Every single dollar counts when you make your tax-deductible donation towards the Antarctic research area that excites you.
Antarctica offers us the answers.
Let's ask the questions together.
