Society of Systematic Biologists Mini-ARTS Awards (Updated) Grant

The Society of Systematic Biologists Mini-ARTS Awards aim to enhance taxonomic knowledge by supporting students, post-docs, and faculty in their research endeavors. These awards facilitate mentorship opportunities with taxonomic experts and promote innovative approaches in revisionary taxonomy and systematics. By addressing gaps in biodiversity knowledge and fostering taxonomic expertise, the program contributes significantly to the field of systematic biology. Applicants must be SSB members to be eligible for these impactful grants.

The objective of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the advancement of the science of systematic biology in all its aspects of theory, principles, methodology, and practice, for both living and fossil organisms, with emphasis on areas of common interest to all systematic biologists regardless of individual specialization
The Society of Systematic Biologists is pleased to offer Mini-ARTS awards to enhance taxonomic knowledge. These awards are for revisionary taxonomy and systematics, modeled after the NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics (ARTS) developed within the Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster. We are calling these 'Mini-ARTS' grants. These awards are designed to allow SSB members (students, post-docs, and faculty) to spend a summer or semester apprenticed to an expert in a particular taxonomic group or to enhance revisionary taxonomic and systematics research in novel ways.
Goals of this award program are to address constraints on our knowledge of undescribed biodiversity, assist in passing on taxonomic expertise before it is lost, increase the number of students with broad training in organismal biology and systematics, and support projects in biodiversity and taxonomy informatics as well as monographic and revisionary taxonomy.
Activities can include a trip to the taxonomist's laboratory, pay for the taxonomist to visit the applicant's laboratory for a period of time, or pay for costs of computer time or development of interactive keys for electronic dissemination of systematics results.

Eligibility

Students, post-docs, and facultyApplicants may be from any country, but must be members of SSB, and are advised to join the Society as soon as possible to enable their applications.
You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.