Publication or Research

HORACE MILLER/GINNY SAYLOR

PUBLICATION GRANT

Background and Scope:

The Arizona Native Plant Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote knowledge, appreciation, conservation, and restoration of Arizona's native plants and their habitats.
The publication grant was established through generous bequests from long-time members Horace Miller and Ginny Saylor.
This grant is intended to assist with the costs of disseminating original work concerning the biology of Arizona native plants of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
One or more grants may be made each year. The total available for all grants is $1,500. The deadline for submission of grant proposals is March 31, 2014.

Description and Purpose:

The Tucson Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society (AZNPS) provides a total of $1,500 for a limited number of grants to publication projects that focus on Arizona native plants and reach the broadest audience possible.
Eligible publications or related publication projects must contribute to:

scientific knowledge of native plants
public understanding of native plants and their environments or native plant conservation.

Applicants from all levels of experience are encouraged to participate (individuals, teachers, college and graduate students, professional researchers, etc.).
Awards will be made for costs associated with: publication in a scientific journal; regional plant lists for general distribution; publication artwork; brochures or booklets for the general public; educational materials for schools; web page development; or other publication-related expenses as deemed appropriate by the AZNPS grant committee. Supplanting existing funding with this grant is not allowed.
Applications will be judged on the basis of their consistency with the purposes and selection criteria described above.
The grant recipient will be expected either to make a presentation to the Tucson Chapter (or other AZNPS chapter), provide a short article for the AZNPS Plant Press, or make other arrangements for sharing their work with AZNPS.

Requirements:

Support by the AZNPS Horace Miller/Ginny Saylor Publication Grant should be acknowledged in any papers, reports, projects, and/or presentations. Example: Support provided in part by funding from the Arizona Native Plant Society Horace Miller/Ginny Saylor Grant program.

Due Date:

Complete proposals must be received by AZNPS-Tucson Chapter by 12:00 PM, March 31, 2014. Late proposals will not be considered. Download application here.

Submit proposals one of two ways:

Electronically in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF form to Ries Lindley . Subject line should include “Publication Grant.”
By mail to Publication Grant, AZNPS-Tucson Chapter, Box 41206, Sun Station, Tucson, AZ 85717.

GINNY SAYLOR RESEARCH GRANT

Background and Scope:

The Arizona Native Plant Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote knowledge, appreciation, conservation, and restoration of Arizona's native plants and their habitats.
The research grant has been established through a generous bequest from long-time member Ginny Saylor.
The research grant is intended to support the costs of active research in the biology of Arizona native plants of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
One grant totaling $2,000 will be made. The deadline for submission of grant proposals is March 31, 2014.

Description and Purpose:

Recognizing the importance of active research on Arizona’s native flora, the Tucson Chapter will award in 2013 one $2,000 research grant to an individual, group, or institution to support research that enhances our understanding of native Arizona plants.
The grant may be used to fund the entire cost of a project or to supplement the cost of a project receiving other funding.
Only research involving native Arizona plants will be considered.
Researchers from all levels of experience are encouraged to participate (individuals, teachers on behalf of school children, college and graduate students, professional researchers, etc.).
Members of the AZNPS are encouraged to participate but membership in AZNPS is not a requirement.
We encourage projects that include a citizen-science component.
The grant recipient will be expected to either make a presentation to the Tucson Chapter (or other AZNPS chapter) on the results of the research, or provide a short article for the AZNPS Plant Press.

Restriction:

This grant is for research on native plants, not exotic species or the relationship of exotics to native plants.
Funds are for research only and may not be used to attend conferences or symposia.
Support by the AZNPS Tucson Saylor Research Grant should be acknowledged in any papers, reports, projects, and/or presentations. Example: Support provided in part by funding from the Arizona Native Plant Society Horace Miller/Ginny Saylor Grant program.
Supplanting existing funding with this grant is not allowed.

Due Date:

Complete proposals must be received by AZNPS-Tucson Chapter by 12:00 PM, March 31, 2014. Late proposals will not be considered. Download application here.

Submit proposals one of two ways:

Electronically in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF form to Ries Lindley . Subject line should include “Publication Grant.”
By mail to Publication Grant, AZNPS-Tucson Chapter, Box 41206, Sun Station, Tucson, AZ 85717.

Previous Grants Awarded

Miller/Saylor Publication Grant:

2013-A grant of $1,500 has been awarded to Frankie Coburn for his work on the Flora and Species-Environment Relationships along the Upper Verde River, Arizona. Mr. Coburn will be publishing a flora of the Upper Verde River, a little-studied area that is of great importance because of its use as a water source for the Phoenix metropolitan area.

2012- Sarah DeGroot of the Santa Ana Botanic Garden will be using her $1,000 to pay for the costs incurred by including color photographs in her new publication of the genus Eriastrum for the Flora of North America, a genus represented in Arizona by E. diffusum and E. erimicum.

2012- Linda Kennedy of the The National Audubon Society's Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch will use $500 to help with costs for the publication of a guidebook for native southwest plants that provide a food source for hummingbirds.

2011- This year $1000 was awarded to Kirsten Lake, University of Arizona Herbarium, for the preparation of illustrations for Legumes of Arizona: an Illustrated Flora and Reference.

2010- Kristen Lake received $500 for funding to produce botanical line drawings for the text Legumes of Arizona-An Illustrated Flora and Reference. This project was initiated by the Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s Desert Legume Program. The illustrations will be produced by the Art Institute of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. It is hoped that this information will be available to the public through a website.

2010- John Wiens, Mark Dimmitt and Tom Van Devender received $500 to help with printing costs for A Vegetation and Flora of the Ironwood Forest National Monument. This study will then be available in herbaria and libraries for use by researchers and the public. The flora includes about 600 taxa in 82 families.

2009- Dr. Dan Austin was awarded $600 for a field guide to Baboquivari Mountain plants, entitled An Identification, Ecological, and Ethnobotanical Primer. The guide will include 186 plants of the Baboquivari Mountain chain, with an appendix listing all the species known from the chain. This unique compilation includes common names in the local languages (including English, Spanish, O’odham, Yuman, Keresan, Tanoan, and Athapascan), species descriptions, ethnobotany, and ecological notes. The book is published by the University of Arizona Press.

2009- Ana Lilia Reina-Guerrero received $400 for a Spanish translation of “Biodiversity of the Vascular Plants of Sonora, Mexico,” a chapter of the forthcoming book Bioidiversidad del Estado de Sonora. This book will enable Spanish-speaking researchers, teachers, and students to have the most accurate information available. It will encourage students in Sonora to continue botanical studies and support habitat conservation. The book is in press.

Ginny Saylor Research Grant:

2013-A grant of $2,000 was awarded to Anthony Baniaga to support his research on the Characterization and Natural History of the Selaginella arizonica x eremophila hybrid zone. Mr. Baniaga is using Selaginella to study aspects of how plants form new species.

2012- No research grant given.

2011- This year a grant of $500 was awarded to Kirstin Olmon, Northern Arizona University, for “A Flora of the Vascular Plants of the Upper Basin and Coconino Rim in Northern Arizona.”

2010- A grant of $500 was awarded to Jamie C. Wolgast to support her research on the Vegetation and Flora of Aravaipa Canyon. She will focus her work on the rare plant communities within the canyon allowing land managers to assess the current status of the flora and adjust management strategies for conservation. The flora will eventually be available to the public.

2009- The first grant of $500 was awarded to Christopher Kline, director of the Southwest Monarch Study, to help support a project to determine native plant composition of habitats occupied by reproducing monarch butterflies at three Arizona sites. The Southwest Monarch Study, formerly a research project of the Boyce Thompson Arboretum, has captured, tagged, and released wild Monarch butterflies (Danuas plexippus) in Arizona since August 2003. The study relies on a large corps of volunteer citizen scientists.

The Arizona Native Plant Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote knowledge, appreciation, conservation, and restoration of Arizona's native plants and their habitats.

The publication grant was established through generous bequests from long-time members Horace Miller and Ginny Saylor.

This grant is intended to assist with the costs of disseminating original work concerning the biology of Arizona native plants of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

One or more grants may be made each year. The total available for all grants is $1,500. The deadline for submission of grant proposals is March 31, 2014.

The Tucson Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society (AZNPS) provides a total of $1,500 for a limited number of grants to publication projects that focus on Arizona native plants and reach the broadest audience possible.

Eligible publications or related publication projects must contribute to:

scientific knowledge of native plants

public understanding of native plants and their environments or native plant conservation.

Applicants from all levels of experience are encouraged to participate (individuals, teachers, college and graduate students, professional researchers, etc.).

Applications will be judged on the basis of their consistency with the purposes and selection criteria described above.

The grant recipient will be expected either to make a presentation to the Tucson Chapter (or other AZNPS chapter), provide a short article for the AZNPS Plant Press, or make other arrangements for sharing their work with AZNPS.

Support by the AZNPS Horace Miller/Ginny Saylor Publication Grant should be acknowledged in any papers, reports, projects, and/or presentations. Example: Support provided in part by funding from the Arizona Native Plant Society Horace Miller/Ginny Saylor Grant program.

Complete proposals must be received by AZNPS-Tucson Chapter by 12:00 PM, March 31, 2014. Late proposals will not be considered. Download application here.

Electronically in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF form to Ries Lindley . Subject line should include “Publication Grant.”

By mail to Publication Grant, AZNPS-Tucson Chapter, Box 41206, Sun Station, Tucson, AZ 85717.

The Arizona Native Plant Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote knowledge, appreciation, conservation, and restoration of Arizona's native plants and their habitats.

The research grant has been established through a generous bequest from long-time member Ginny Saylor.

The research grant is intended to support the costs of active research in the biology of Arizona native plants of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

One grant totaling $2,000 will be made. The deadline for submission of grant proposals is March 31, 2014.

Recognizing the importance of active research on Arizona’s native flora, the Tucson Chapter will award in 2013 one $2,000 research grant to an individual, group, or institution to support research that enhances our understanding of native Arizona plants.

The grant may be used to fund the entire cost of a project or to supplement the cost of a project receiving other funding.

Only research involving native Arizona plants will be considered.

Researchers from all levels of experience are encouraged to participate (individuals, teachers on behalf of school children, college and graduate students, professional researchers, etc.).

Members of the AZNPS are encouraged to participate but membership in AZNPS is not a requirement.

We encourage projects that include a citizen-science component.

The grant recipient will be expected to either make a presentation to the Tucson Chapter (or other AZNPS chapter) on the results of the research, or provide a short article for the AZNPS Plant Press.

This grant is for research on native plants, not exotic species or the relationship of exotics to native plants.

Funds are for research only and may not be used to attend conferences or symposia.

Support by the AZNPS Tucson Saylor Research Grant should be acknowledged in any papers, reports, projects, and/or presentations. Example: Support provided in part by funding from the Arizona Native Plant Society Horace Miller/Ginny Saylor Grant program.

Supplanting existing funding with this grant is not allowed.