Torrey Botanic Society Grants and Awards

The Torrey Botanical Society is pleased to announce that it has awarded two research fellowships, one of $2,500 to Ms. Naomi Fraga of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden for her project Biogeography and population Genetics of the Mimulus palmeri Clade and another of $2,000 to 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.

There were no applications for student training fellowships this year.

2007. Ms. Tara Massad of Tulane University for her project Improvements in tropical reforestation through an understanding of plant secondary chemistry. ($1000)

2007 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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

The Torrey Botanical Society supports student research with an annual award of $2,500.00. The award, limited to graduate students in botany who are members of the Society and must be used to help pay the costs of field work. Applicants will be judged by a Committee of the Council of the Society and recipients will be announced before 1 April each year. Proposals should include 1) a title page with the title of the proposal, name, address, and e-mail address of the applicant, 2) the body of the proposal of no more than two pages, 3) a literature cited page, 4) an overall budget in which it is stated how Society funds will be spent, 5) a letter from the major professor of the student in which the current status of the student in a graduate program is established and the qualifications of the student described, and 6) a current c.v. The proposals should be written in Word in Times New Roman 12 point font and the pages should have 1 inch top and bottom borders and 1.25 inch side borders. All applications should be sent electronically to Dr. Brian M. Boom at bboom@nybg.org by 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 to bboom@nybg.org by the award recipient. We ask recipients of awards to consider publishing the results of their research in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

The Torrey Botanical Society supports student training with an annual award of $1,000.00. The award, limited to undergraduate and graduate students in botany who are members of the Society, must be used to help pay the cost of taking courses at a biological field station. Applicants will be judged by a Committee of the Council of the Society and awards granted by 1 April each year. Proposals should include a letter, not more than two pages in length describing: 1) the field course to be taken, 2) the reasons for taking the field course, 3) a letter from the major professor of the student in which the current status of the student in a university botany program is established and the benefits of the course to the student described, and 4) a current c.v. The proposals should be written in Word in Times New Roman 12 point font and the pages should have 1 inch top and bottom borders and 1.25 inch side borders. All applications should be sent electronically to Dr. Brian M. Boom at bboom@nybg.org by 31 December of the year preceding the course. At the end of the calendar year of support, a non-solicited report of one paragraph should be sent to bboom@nybg.org. We ask recipients of training fellowships to consider publishing the results of their future research in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

The Torrey Botanical Society did not receive applications for symposium support this year.

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.

The Torrey Botanical Society supports an annual symposium award of $1,000.00. 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 in Word in Times New Roman 12 point font and the pages should have 1 inch top and bottom borders and 1.25 inch side borders. All applications should be sent electronically to Dr. Brian M. Boom at bboom@nybg.org by 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 to bboom@nybg.org by the award recipient (s) by 31 December of the year of the symposium. We ask recipients of awards to consider publishing the results of their symposium in the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.