The Torrey Botanical Society Graduate Student Training Fellowship provides funding for students to attend field training courses and workshops held at a university or biological field station.
Number of Awards: 1
Amount: $1,000
Eligibility: Graduate students studying plant science who are members of the Society
Allowable Expenses: Costs associated with a field training course
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Application Deadline: January 15, 2026
Application Requirements:
A description of the field course and a statement of purpose discussing your motivations for taking the course (maximum 2 pages).
Current C.V. of the applicant.
A letter from the major professor detailing the applicant’s current status and qualifications.
Formatting Guidelines:
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For inquiries about the awards or application process, please contact grants@torreybotanical.org.
Previous Awardees
2025
Ariel Schwartzman–Miles (Vassar College), to attend a sphagnum ecology field course
Armin Weise (Clemson University) to attend a sedge identification course.
2024
Rachel Savage (University of Arkansas), to attend a tropical botany course.
2023
Sierra Sattler, (South Dakota State University), to attend an Advanced Field Botany course at the University of Wyoming.
2022
Kayleigh Dodson (University of Colorado, Boulder) to attend a Tropical Botany Course at Fairchild Botanic Gardens.
2021
no award given
2020
Natalia Quinteros Casaverde (CUNY Graduate Center) to attend TraitTrain Plant Functional Trait Course 5 in Peru.
2019
no award given
2018
Kendall Beals (University of Tennessee), to attend Explorations in Data Analyses for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME) workshop.
Christopher Krieg (University of Florida), to attend Australian Plant Ecology
2017
Carrie Malina Tribble (University of California, Berkeley), to attend Sistematica de Plantas Tropicales, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.
Jessie Fay Parrott (Bard College at Simon’s Rock), to attend Taxonomy and Biology of Ferns and Lycophytes, Eagle Hill Institute, Maine.
2016
No award made
2015
Sean Thackurdeen (The New York Botanical Garden), to attend Summer in the Keys: Studying Tropical Botany at the Kampong, National Tropical Botanical Garden.
2014
Ian Gilman (Bucknell University), to attend the Rocky Mountain Field Botany course at University of Idaho.
2013
Elliot Gardner (Northwestern University), to attend the Tropical Botany course in southern Florida at National Tropical Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, and Montgomery Botanical Center.
2012
Julián Aguirre-Santoro (CUNY Graduate Center), to attend Bodega Applied Phylogenetics Workshop at the Bodega Marine Laboratory in California.
2011
Nicolas Garcia (University of Florida), to attend the Tropical Botany course in southern Florida at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
2010
Carolyn Pucko (University of Vermont), to attend The North American Dendroecological Fieldweek at the White Mountains Research Station in California.
2004
Michael Sundue (CUNY Graduate Center), to attend a course in tropical plant systematics at the Organization of Tropical Studies in Costa Rica.
Todd Osmundson (Columbia University), to attend a workshop on molecular evolution at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
2002
Paola Pedraza (CUNY Graduate Center), to attend the course Tropical Botany taught by Dr. Walter S. Judd of the University of Florida.
2001
Linda Fuselier (University of Kentucky), to attend a course in field bryology at the Highlands Biological Station.