Dean Amadon Research Grant

The Dean Amadon Research Grant, provided by the Raptor Research Foundation, supports research in the distribution and systematics of raptors. With a funding limit of up to $4,500 plus waived publication charges, this grant encourages innovative studies in avian taxonomy and migration patterns. Named after Dr. Dean Amadon, a notable ornithologist, the grant honors his legacy in avian research and aids primary authors in sharing their findings with the scientific community.

This award is designed to assist persons working on the distribution and systematics, or taxonomy, of raptors. Systematics covers a wide array of interests from molecular work to differential migration of populations from various geographic regions, for example distribution also covers a wide array of interests but should have something to do with where raptors live or why they are there.
About Dean Amadon
Dr. Amadon was the former Lamont curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History and president of the American Ornithologists’ Union. He was the author or co-author of over 400 publications, many, if not most on avian systematics. He passed away in 2003, in his 91st year. In 1937 he was offered a job at the AMNH by Frank M. Chapman. Dr. Amadon remained at the museum for the rest of his life. This grant is the result of a donation of AT&T stock that he gave to RRF in the late 1990s, which formed a large part of the principal of our Memorial Endowment Fund.
Amount
Up to $4,500 plus waived page charges. The waived page charges allow the recipient to publish their research in the Journal of Raptor Research.

Eligibility

The recipient must be the primary author and the paper must reflect what the award was for.