Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research - Issue 21

The Georgia Botanical Society would like to ask for your help in spreading the word about the Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund. For more nearly 20 years, this program has provided small monetary awards to support students, instructors, field botanists, and conservationists who are conducting field research, conservation projects, and educational programs that focus on Georgia’s native flora. The primary goal of the Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund is to support field-oriented research by investigators in the state of Georgia.

Who is eligible to apply for an award? Students and faculty at colleges or universities within Georgia (or outside the state but conducting research in Georgia), private consultants, government officials, qualified amateur botanists, conservation land managers, and other individuals with a demonstrated interest in field botany are eligible to apply for an award. (Please note that projects primarily focused on molecular research are not eligible.) Projects should be conducted in Georgia or focus on taxa of priority interest in Georgia. Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Floristic studies, surveys, and inventories

• Species or habitat conservation and restoration efforts

• Studies in plant systematics

• Quantitative and qualitative analyses of natural communities and vegetation

• Life history studies

• Research focused on exotic pest plants in Georgia and their eradication or control

• Surveys for and conservation of state and federal listed, tracked, and rare species

• Inventory and management of significant natural communities

• Horticultural research on propagation and management of native plant species

Here you will find a copy of the application guidelines with additional information on the program. If you have a colleague or know of a student who might be interested in applying for funding, please pass this information on to them, or post the application on a notice board in your department.

Proposals for 2024 must be submitted via email (or U. S. mail postmarked) by 31 March 2024, for projects beginning or continuing in 2024. Proposals are reviewed by a Georgia Botanical Society evaluation committee; announcements of awards will be made by 19 April 2024.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE WRITE:

Richard Ware, gabotany@comcast.net

Linda Chafin, Lchafin@uga.edu

We are grateful for your help and interest, and hope to hear from you or your students and colleagues soon.

The Georgia Botanical Society Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund committee:

1. Linda Chafin

2. Richard Ware

3. Timothy Estep

4. Bill Goldstrohm