Previous Winners

General Information. The Ernst Mayr Award is given to the presenter of the outstanding student paper in the field of systematics at the annual meetings of the Society of Systematic Biologists, as judged by the Ernst Mayr Award Committee. The award consists of $1000.00 and a set of available back issues of the journal.

Who is Eligible. Members of the Society who are students or have completed their Ph.D. within the last 15 months are eligible. Students should send in the text of an email a 400-word abstract of their talk to the current awards chair (In 2005, Kelly Zamudio, krz2@cornell.edu). Please include in your e-mail submission, your name and complete contact information. Based on the submitted abstracts, the Mayr Awards committee (appointed by the Awards Chair) will select the best 15 for inclusion in the actual competition at the meetings, which will be held at a single venue in a separate session. Deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2005. Previous winners are not eligible.

Judging. Papers will be judged on creativity, quality, excellence of research, and quality of presentation. Abstracts should clearly indicate methods used, the relevance to systematics and the conclusions. Presentations focusing on other areas of biology (ecology, behavior, genetics, populations or molecular biology, etc.) that lack a strong systematics emphasis are not eligible.

Co-Authors. The paper may be co-authored. It is understood that the ideas, data and conclusions presented are primarily and substantially the work of the student presenting the paper and the intention is that person will be senior author on the published version of the paper.

Notification of Winner. The winner of the award will be announced during the banquet at the annual meetings, and an announcement will be published in Systematic Biology.

The Ernst Mayr Award Committee. The Ernst Mayr Award Committee consists of three members of the Society appointed by the Awards Chairperson.

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