Torrey Botanic Society Grants and Awards

The Torrey Botanical Society supports student research with an annual award of $2,500. Graduate students in botany who are members of the Society are eligible to apply for this award. This award must be used to help pay the costs of field work. Applications will be judged by a committee of the Council of the Society, and recipients will be announced before 1 April each year.

Proposals must include: 1) title page with proposal title, applicant’s name, address, and e-mail address; 2) body of the proposal of no more than two pages; 3) literature cited page; 4) budget, including brief justification for each item; 5) a current C.V.; and 6) a letter from the major professor detailing the current status of the applicant and his/her qualifications. The proposals should be written using Times New Roman font, 12-point, with pages having 1-inch top and bottom margins, and 1.25-inch side margins. All applications must be sent electronically by the applicant to Dr. Robert Naczi, rnaczi@nybg.org. Submit applications as pdf files only, with the applicant’s surname first in file name (e.g. Name_proposalResearchFellwshp.pdf, Name_letterResearchFellwshp.pdf). Deadline for applications is 31 December of the year preceding the field work.

At the end of the calendar year of support, a non-solicited report of one paragraph should be sent by the award recipient to rnaczi@nybg.org. Recipients of research fellowships should consider publishing results of the research in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

2009. Ms. Posy Busby of Stanford University for her project Assessing Broad-Scale Patterns in Susceptibility to Beech Bark Disease ($2500) and Mr. James Lendemer of The New York Botanical Garden for his project Assessing the Biological Diversity of the Genus Lepraria s.l. (Lichenized Ascomycetes, Stereocaulaceae) in Southeastern North America. ($2500)

2008. Ms. Naomi Fraga of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden for her project Biogeography and population Genetics of the Mimulus palmeri Clade ($2500) and Mr. Jonathan Myers of Louisiana State University for his study of Ecological mechanisms maintaining plant species diversity: Seed dispersal limitation and environmental filtering in high-diversity pine savannas. ($2000)

2007. Ms. Tara Massad of Tulane University for her project Improvements in tropical reforestation through an understanding of plant secondary chemistry ($1000) and Ms. Diana Jolles of The Ohio State University for her project Phylogeny and biogeography of the Pyrola picta species complex (Pyroleae: Monotropoideae: Ericaceae). ($2,500)

2006. Mr. Michael Sundue of the City University of New York and The New York Botanical Garden for his project Phylogenetics of the Terpsichore taxifolia group. What does an ascomycete fungus tell us about the phylogeny of grammitid ferns? ($2500)

2005. Ms. Krissa A. Skogen of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of the University of Connecticut at Storrs for her project Investigating causes of recent population declines in a N₂-fixing plant species Desmodium cuspidatum (Fabaceae). ($2,500)

2004. Mr. William Bowman of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University for his project Between- and Within-Tree Variation in CO₂ Efflux from Woody Stems and Branches. ($2,500)

2003. Ms. Isabel Ashton of the State University of New York at Stony Brook to study Light Availability and the Invasion of Woody Vines into Temperate Forests. ($2,500)

2003. Ms. Paola Pedraza of the City University of New York to study the Biodiversity of Neotropical Blueberries: Systematics and Phylogeny of Andean Disterigma (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae). ($2,500)

2002. Ms. Holly Porter Morgan of the City University of New York to study the flowering phenology and pollination ecology of several Chamaedorea (Palmae) species in Belize. ($2,500)

2002. Mr. Hugh Cross of Columbia University to study the genetic diversity of chayote (Sechium edule), an edible member of the cucumber family. ($500)

2002. Ms. Amna Ahmad of City University of New York to study the systematics of Hymenocallis, a genus of the Amaryllidaceae. ($500)

2001. Ms. Olga Orozco of the City University of New York for her survey of poisonous plants and their uses in Cajamarca, Peru. ($2,500)

2000. Ms. Gillian P. Schultz of the Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside for her study of the structure and floristics of the forests of the El Eden Ecological Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico. ($2,500)

Torrey Botanical Society
Andrew M. Greller Graduate Student Research Award
for Conservation of Local Flora and Ecosystems

The Torrey Botanical Society supports student training with an annual award of $1,000. Undergraduate and graduate students in botany who are members of the Society are eligible to apply for this award. The award must be used to help pay the cost of taking courses at a biological field station. Applications will be judged by a committee of the Council of the Society, and recipients will be announced before 1 April each year.

Proposals must include 1) title page with proposal title, applicant’s name, address, and e-mail address; 2) brief description of the field course(s) to be taken (one paragraph); 3) brief discussion of the reasons for taking the course(s) (no more than three paragraphs); 4) a current C.V.; and 5) a letter from the major professor detailing the current status of the applicant and the potential benefits of the course(s) to the applicant. The proposals should be written using Times New Roman font, 12-point, with pages having 1-inch top and bottom margins, and 1.25-inch side margins. All applications must be sent electronically by the applicant to Dr. Robert Naczi, rnaczi@nybg.org. Submit applications as pdf files only, with the applicant’s surname first in file name (e.g. Name_proposalTrainingFellwshp.pdf, Name_letterTrainingFellwshp.pdf). Deadline for applications is 31 December of the year preceding the course.

By the end of the calendar year of support, a non-solicited report of one paragraph should be sent by the award recipient to rnaczi@nybg.org. Recipients of training fellowships should consider publishing results of future research in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

2004. Mr. Michael Sundue of the City University of New York to attend a course in tropical plant systematics at the Organization of Tropical Studies in Costa Rica. ($1,000)

2004. Mr. Todd Osmundson of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation of Columbia University to attend a workshop on molecular evolution at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. ($1,000)

2002. Ms. Paola Pedraza of the City University of New York to attend the course Tropical Botany taught by Dr. Walter S. Judd of the University of Florida. ($1,000)

2001. Ms. Linda Fuselier of the University of Kentucky to attend a course in field bryology at the Highlands Biological Station. ($1,000)

The Torrey Botanical Society supports an annual symposium award of $1,000. Applicants will be judged by a committee of the Council of the Society, and recipients will be announced before 1 April each year.

Organizers should send the following information: 1) a description of the symposium and its importance, 2) a list of the speakers and their topics, and 3) current C.V.s of the organizers. The proposals should be written using Times New Roman font, 12-point, with pages having 1-inch top and bottom margins, and 1.25-inch side margins. All applications must be sent electronically by the applicant to Dr. Robert Naczi, rnaczi@nybg.org. Submit applications as pdf files only, with the applicant’s surname first in file name (e.g. Name_proposalSymposium.pdf). Deadline for applications is 31 December of the year preceding the symposium.

By the end of the calendar year of support, a non-solicited report of one paragraph should be sent by the award recipient(s) to rnaczi@nybg.org. Recipients of symposium awards should consider publishing results of the symposium in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

2007. Drs. Susan Pell of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Allison Miller of St. Louis University for support of a symposium entitled Evolution and diversification in the Sapindales held at Botany 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

2006. Dr. David Lentz for support of a symposium entitled Medicinal plants of Southeast Asia: contributions and potential contributions to medicine to be held in June 2006 as part of the annual Society of Economic Botany meeting to be held in Chaing Mai, Thailand.

2005. The New England invasive plant summit. Awarded to Ms. Nava M. Tabak and held at Farmington, MA from 16-18 September 2005.

2004. Migration, Markets, and Changing Systems of Plant Use. Organized by Valerie Imbruce, Angela Steward, and Christine Padoch. Held at the 45^th annual meeting of the Society of Economic Botany in Canterbury, England in June 2004.

2002. Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crop Plants. Organized by Timothy Motley, Hugh Cross, and Nyree Zerega as part of the annual meeting of the Society of Economic Botany held in 2002 at The New York Botanical Garden.

2001. Asheville Plus 1. How Have you Implemented the International Agenda for Botanical Gardens in Conservation at your Garden? Organized by Steven Clemants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Nicola Ripley, Betty Ford Alpine Garden, Vale, Colorado. Held at the American Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta Conference in Denver.

2000. Flora of the Greater Antilles Symposium. Organized by Thomas Zanoni. Held at The New York Botanical Garden, 23-24 June 2000.

1999. Biology of the Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae-alliance. Organized by Thomas Borsch, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit�t Bonn; Stephen Clemants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Sergei Mosyakin, M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Kiev, Ukraine. Held at the 16^th International Botanical Congress, St. Louis.