[Taxacom] Announcement: OTS Outstanding Student Paper Award, deadline October 14

[Lena Struwe]

The Organization for Tropical Studies' (OTS) Membership Committee is 
pleased to announce the third annual OTS Outstanding Student Paper 
Award. We invite nominations for a $500 cash prize for excellence in 
research via an outstanding publication in tropical biology written by a 
student.

ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATION:
At the time of the nomination deadline, the paper must be published or 
accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and reporting work 
completed within the tropics. To be eligible:
1) the author must have been a student (undergraduate or graduate) when 
the research was completed, and,
2) satisfy at least one of the following three criteria:
- nominee is an alum of an OTS course
- work was completed at an OTS research station (La Selva, Las Cruces, 
Palo Verde)
- nominee is (was) a student at an OTS member institution (Institutional 
members may be found here: http://www.ots.ac.cr/)

In addition, the nominee must be the first author and the paper must be 
published no more than 36 months before the award deadline. 
Self-nominations or nominations by research advisors or colleagues are 
invited.

SELECTION CRITERIA: Applications will be reviewed by an Awards Committee 
formed by a subcommittee of the OTS Assembly of Delegates. Papers will 
be judged upon the paper’s contribution to the field including 
originality, study design and potential impact on the field of study.

Nomination packets should consist of a single pdf document and include:

   1.
      A nomination letter briefly describing the paper and outlining the
      qualification criteria from the list above.
   2.
      A copy of the paper.
   3.
      A brief letter from an advisor, colleague or scientist in a
      relevant field of study describing the impact of the paper on the
      field (optional, but strongly suggested).
   4.
      A CV from the nominee

SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS: Send nomination packet electronically as a pdf 
to the chair of the Awards Committee, awards.ots at gmail.com 
<mailto:awards.ots at gmail.com>

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 2011
If you have questions, please email Dr. Lena Struwe ( 
struwe at aesop.rutgers.edu <mailto:struwe at aesop.rutgers.edu>).
Announcement of Award Recipient will be made at March 2012 OTS Assembly 
of Delegates Meeting and will be recognized at the ATBC meeting.

Pdf flyer for poster and printing: 
http://www.ots.ac.cr/images/downloads/education/graduate/spa2011_forweb.pdf
-- 
Dr. Lena Struwe | Associate Professor & Director, Chrysler Herbarium | 
Rutgers University | Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources | 
Dept of Plant Biology and Pathology | 237 Foran Hall | 59 Dudley Road | 
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 | USA | struwe at aesop.rutgers.edu | phone (732) 
932-9711 x235 | fax (732) 932-9441 | www.rci.rutgers.edu/~struwe/