[NHCOLL-L:2395] TDWG2004 student travel support to New Zealand

[Rob Guralnick]

	Dear List Members ---

	See the notice below concerning student support to the Taxonomic Database 
Working Group meeting in New Zealand.  Please distribute this notice far 
and wide.

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Underrepresented student support for October 2004 Meeting of the Taxonomic 
Data Working Group (TDWG), Christ Church, New Zealand.

With the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation, we expect to 
fund up to $3,000 per student for underrepresented (based on gender, 
ethnicity, disability, and geography) undergraduate, graduate and 
post-doctoral students working in or proposing biodiversity informatics 
projects, to attend the TDWG meetings from October 11 to 18, 2004. See 
http://www.tdwg.org/2004meet/TDWG_2004.htm for the meeting program. The 
focus of the meeting includes: Biological Collections Data, the proposed 
XML Schema for the Structure of Descriptive Data, Taxonomic Names, among 
other topics (eg. Spatial Data).

Underrepresented resident students at U.S. institutions are invited to 
submit an application describing their studies or research projects in 
biology or computer science and a brief paragraph about how they expect 
attendance could further their work. We will especially consider applicants 
not traditionally included in the taxonomic community.

Application requirements:
- Total narrative should not exceed one page (when formated in 12-point 
Times Roman, single spaced text on an 8.5x11" page with 1" margins)
- If relevant, include at most one additional page of references to web 
links describing projects in which they participate, and papers on which 
they are joint authors.
  - Applications may be accompanied by up to two letters of recommendation 
from faculty members or other professionals aware of the projects described 
in the narrative and commenting on the student's role and expected benefit.

Please send documents in PDF format to Dr. Robert Guralnick 
(Robert.Guralnick at colorado.edu) by Sept. 15.  Applications will be 
evaluated by a committee composed of Dr. Guralnick, Dr. Robert A. Morris 
from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Annie Simpson at the 
National Biological Information Infrastructure.

We expect funding to be available prior to the meeting.  Further details 
will be provided to the successful applicants.

Best regards,
Rob Guralnick
Robert Morris
Annie Simpson

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Dr. Rob Guralnick
Asst. Professor and Curator
Dept. of EEB and CU Museum
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder CO 80309-0265
tel: 303-735-0178