Fwd: LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION AWARDS

[Felix Sperling]

>X-Sender: sblack at spineless.xerces.org
>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:34:48 -0700
>To: <sblack at xerces.org>
>From: Scott Black <sblack at xerces.org>
>Subject: LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION AWARDS
>Status:  
>
>Please pass on to anyone who might be interested
>
>LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION AWARDS
>
>The Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award
>
>The Xerces Society is now accepting applications for two $3,750 
>awards for Lepidoptera research/conservation projects to be executed 
>in 2002. The Dewind awards are given to a person or persons engaged 
>in studies or research leading to a university degree related to 
>Lepidoptera research and conservation and working or intending to 
>work in that field.
>
>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: 1-2 pages to include 2-3 sentence summary, 
>project description, potential conservation applications and 
>results, product (if any). Attach a detailed budget, projected 
>timeline and C.V. If you have published on your project or related 
>topics, reprints may also be attached (mailed under separate cover 
>if submission is E-mailed). We are soliciting proposals on general 
>Lepidoptera conservation and on pollination-related research with 
>one award designated for the latter.
>
>DUE DATE: E-mailed or postmarked by November 15, 2001.
>
>E-mail submissions preferred, send to xerces at teleport.com.
>-OR-
>Mail to: DeWind Award, The Xerces Society, 4828 S. E. Hawthorne 
>Blvd., Portland, OR 97215, USA
>
>BACKGROUND
>Joan Mosenthal DeWind was a pioneering member of the Xerces Society. 
>A psychiatric social worker by profession, she was also an avid 
>butterfly gardener and an accomplished amateur lepidopterist. Her 
>contributions of time, organizational expertise, and financial 
>support were essential to the growth and success of the Xerces 
>Society over the past 25 years. Joan also had a keen interest in 
>young people, supporting what became the Young Entomologists’ 
>Society. In Joan’s memory, Bill DeWind established a student 
>research endowment fund in her name.
>
>Projects selected for the award in 2001.
>
>
>· Sean Mullen of Cornell University to characterize the 
>phylogeographic structure of the North American Viceroy butterfly, 
>Limenitis archippus, and to experimentally determine its response to 
>environmental change.
>
>
>· Jacqueline Levy of San Francisco State University for research on 
>the role habitat gardens play in the conservation of a native 
>butterfly, California native, Battus philenor (pipevine swallowtail).
>
>
>· Sibyl Rae Bucheli of Ohio State University for life history, 
>taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of southwestern species of 
>Coleophoridae with a goal of establishing baseline knowledge of 
>North American species diversity and, eventually, degree of species 
>rarity in the western United States.
>
>
>
>
>Scott Hoffman Black
>Ecologist/Entomologist
>Executive Director
>The Xerces Society
>4828 Hawthorne
>Portland, OR 97215
>Direct line (503) 534-2706
>Direct Fax (503) 534-2708
>sblack at xerces.org
>
>
>www.xerces.org
>
>The Xerces Society is an international nonprofit organization 
>dedicated to protecting biological diversity through the 
>conservation of invertebrates.
>
>
>
>
>
>    
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/private/leps-l/attachments/20011002/7b1062f5/attachment.html