<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248);color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">The Ranges Network is pleased to announce the third, and final, call for the Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards. <b>Applications must be submitted by January 7, 2026, 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time.</b></span></div><div><span aria-label="" class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"></span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">The Mini-Awards enable researchers to produce new images of mammal specimens from biocollections to extend their current research by collecting internal and potentially complex trait data at the intraspecific level that can be integrated with other specimen-level data digitized by Ranges, such as reproduction, habitat, geographic origins, or time. Projects focused on any aspect of morphological variation are welcome.</span><span aria-label="" class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"></span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">For more information about the types of projects we fund and project requirements. please visit: </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://ranges-network.org/awards/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">https://ranges-network.org/awards/</a><span aria-label="" class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"></span><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">**Anyone affiliated with an institution in the United States can apply for a Mini-Award including under/graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at all career stages.</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>David Bloom</div><div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.ranges-network.org/" target="_blank">Ranges Network Project Manager</a><br><a href="https://www.tdwg.org/about/executive/" target="_blank">TDWG Chair</a></div><div><a href="https://www.gbif.org/contact-us/directory?group=nsg" target="_blank">GBIF North America Regional Representative</a></div><div><a href="http://vertnet.org/" target="_blank">VertNet Project Manager</a><div><a href="https://www.gbif.org/participant/361" target="_blank">VertNet Head of Delegation/Node Manager</a><br><div><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1273-1807" target="_blank">ORCID: 0000-0003-1273-1807</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>