Mini-ARTS Awards
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. Requests for support may be in any amount up to $4,000. The rubric with which these submissions will be judged is posted here.
2022 Mini-ARTS Applications
The Mini-ARTS competition 2022 is now closed
Applicants may be from any country, but must be members of SSB, and are advised to join the Society as soon as possible to facilitate their applications. Use the button below to go to the application form.
Application materials required:
One letter of support must be submitted to the system from:
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