NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS

Abstract

The New England Botanical Club offers each year up to $6000 total in support of botanical research to be conducted by graduate students. The awards are made to stimulate and encourage botanical research on the New England flora (plants, algae, and fungi), including support for field work or herbarium visits in New England by those who would not otherwise be able to travel to the region. It is anticipated that two awards will be given, although the actual number and amount of awards will depend on the proposals received. The awards are given to the graduate student(s) submitting the best research proposal dealing with systematic botany, biosystematics, plant ecology, or plant conservation biology. Submission of manuscripts to the Club’s journal, Rhodora, is strongly encouraged. Details on the materials to be submitted for consideration, as well as terms of the award agreement, can be found on the Club’s web page (www.rhodora.org). Proposals and supporting letters must be received no later than March 1, 2020. The recipient(s) will be notified by April 30, 2020. The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announce the three winners of the 2019 award: Jamie Harrison of Boston University for a proposal titled ‘‘Combined effects of growing season warming and winter freeze/thaw cycles on northern hardwood forest ecosystems of New England,’’ Michelle R. Jackson of University of Massachusetts Amherst for a proposal titled ‘‘The potential impacts of increased warming and nitrogen on Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) physiology across a latitudinal gradient,’’ and Fiona Jevon of Dartmouth College for a proposal titled ‘‘Do density-dependent feedbacks drive New England temperate tree seedling growth, survival, and diversity?’’ Abstracts of the winning proposals and a listing of the awards from 1985 to the present are available on the Club’s web page.