Marty Seldon Graduate Student Travel Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 15, 2013
In order to recognize outstanding students in the field of fisheries management and biology, and to encourage their participation in Wild Trout Symposia, two students will be awarded with Marty Seldon Student Scholarships at each symposium. Each award consists of a $500 stipend to assist student travel or other costs incurred in their attendance.
Awards are open to graduate students in Fisheries Management or related field. Applicants will be judged on a combination of current graduate GPA and an essay written by the applicant. Click on the Seldon Student Application link for the form. Please submit electronically to Awards Chairman Liz Mamer (liz.mamer@idfg.idaho.gov).
This scholarship honors the long history of Martin M. (Marty) Seldon’s dedication to fisheries conservation. Marty has played a long and active role as an advocate of wild trout, and has been an enthusiastic volunteer for the Wild Trout Symposium Organizing Committee since Wild Trout-II in 1979. Over the years Marty has been active on the Photography, Awards, and Program Committees, and has chaired the Awards Committee for WT-VII and WT-VIII, and served as its co-chair for WT-IX in 2007. Marty has continued to be active on the Organizing Committee for WT-X.
Among many others, he received the Federation of Fly Fishers’ highest honor, The Order of the Lapis Lazuli Award. He was also the Wild Trout Symposium’s first nonprofessional category Aldo Starker Leopold Wild Trout Medal recipient at Wild Trout-III in 1984.
Marty’s long involvement in wild trout conservation began in the 1960’s, when Marty wrote fishing columns for San Francisco and Central Valley fishing newspapers and was Angler Magazine Conservation Editor. Over the year’s Marty has written extensively on catch-and-release fishing.
Marty has served as a Trout Unlimited chapter president, was a founding director of CalTrout, and has been a Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) volunteer since 1972. Marty has also served as the Conservation Vice President of the Northern California Council FFF and from 1976-1986 was on the FFF Executive Committee as Senior Vice President Conservation. He has been Chairman of the FFF International Relations and Fish and Wildlife Committees, and managed several FFF fly fishing industry databases. He is presently a FFF Northern California/Northern Nevada Council Director, and a FFF Senior Advisor.
Marty and his wife Rita live in Sunnyvale, California and have two children and three grandchildren in San Francisco and Eugene, Oregon.
The Wild Trout Symposium Committee is deeply saddened by the passing of Marty Seldon,
December of 2011.
Marty Seldon graduated from Columbia University with a degree in electrical engineering. He served in the US Army of Occupation in Germany just after World War II. Marty worked for Varian Associates as an engineer and sales manager and remained as a consultant until 2009. He married his wife Rita in 1952 and moved to Sunnyvale California where he lived until his passing. He is survived by his wife, two children, and three grandchildren who currently reside in California and Oregon.
Marty was an active conservationist and fisherman and remained active up until the day of his death. Marty lived by the "all species, all waters" motto and went fishing throughout Europe, Iceland, and Costa Rica and of course, enjoyed fishing in his local California waters. One of his close friends, Mike Brinkley, went fishing with Marty as recently as October of this last year, where he caught a beautiful steelhead on the Rogue River. Another friend, Craig Nielsen, went fly fishing with Marty in early December on the Klamath River.
Marty was energetic and passionate about wild trout conservation. Marty wrote columns for the San Francisco and Central Valley fishing papers in the early 1960s. He served as the conservation Vice President for the Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) from 1976 – 1986 and received their highest award, the Lapis Lazuli. Marty also served as a senior advisor and Industry Data Base Chairman on the International Relations Committee for the FFF. Near and dear to us, Marty served on the organizing committee for Wild Trout since the second wild trout symposium in 1979. Marty remained actively involved with the Wild Trout symposium up until the day he died. Marty was awarded the Aldo Starker Leopold award for longtime services to cold water fishery resources in 1984 from the Wild Trout symposium. Marty also remained active in many local conservation groups and was a member of the Flycasters of San Jose Club and the Northern California Council Federation of Fyfishers.
Marty will be remembered for his un-wavering enthusiasm and passion. He was continually contacting groups and individuals to join our mailing list and wanted to make sure that the Wild Trout symposium was reaching the broadest audience possible. He was also a wonderful resource of historical information and was happy to share his experiences and photographed all of our past meetings so that the memories and details could be preserved. We all wil miss Marty and will continue his legacy through our Marty Seldon Graduate Student Travel Award, an award created and announced at the last Wild Trout Symposium Marty attended in 2010.
Ron Remmick Undergraduate Student Scholarship
Application Deadline: July 15, 2013
This award will recognize one outstanding undergraduate student with a strong interest in conservation and restoration of native trout, and is offered to encourage their participation in Wild Trout Symposia. This award consists of a $400 stipend to assist student travel or other costs incurred in attendance of this symposium.
Awards are open to an undergraduate student working toward a career in the Natural Fisheries Resource Management or related field. Applicants will be judged on a combination of an essay written by the applicant and a letter of reference. Click on Remmick Undergraduate Student Application for the form. Please submit electronically to Remmick Scholarship Chairman Robert Gresswell (bgresswell@usgs.gov).