Mam·mal·o·gy / a branch of zoology dealing with mammals
Mam·mal·o·gist / a person with the best job in the world!
Mam·mal·o·gy / a branch of zoology dealing with mammals
Mam·mal·o·gist / a person with the best job in the world!
James L. Patton Award
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The James L. Patton Award was established in 2015 to promote and support museum-based research by graduate student members of ASM. Each year, one $5000 award will be granted to facilitate the direct use of museum specimens, including travel costs to visit collections and associated analytical or equipment costs. The award honors Jim’s commitment to research collections and their use in understanding the diversity and evolution of mammals, his passion for mentoring young mammalogists, and his long-standing service to the society. The James L. Patton Award is a competitive fellowship.
Both MS and PhD level students are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage proposals that include the direct inspection of museum collections, including both traditional and/or novel uses of specimens and their associated data. The project description should include mention of broader project objectives and the specific component for which collections use is being requested. Applicants should also describe how their research contributes to the development of natural history collections and their associated data (e.g., field collection, curation, and digitization).
Courtney Reed is a PhD candidate in the department of Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology at Brown University. Her research focuses on how small mammals navigate the inherent trade-offs between eating and avoiding predation. Courtney began working with small mammals during her Master’s in Dr. Hopi Hoekstra’s lab, where she studied reproductive physiology in Peromyscus mice. She is currently working on her doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Tyler Kartzinel at Brown University. Her dissertation asks how habitat structure and predation interactively affect morphology and foraging behavior in a small mammal community in Kenya. She also asks how these local processes scale up to affect morphological diversity across the gerbil subfamily (Gerbillinae), a speciose clade with ranges across Africa and Asia. Courtney uses a combination of field experiments, museum specimens, and molecular tools in her research.
You can donate to the James L. Patton Award fund (and others) here.
The application period opens 15 January with a submission deadline of 1 March at 11:59 PM (EST).
See the grants page to submit the application. Applications are due March 1.
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