Center for Systematic Entomology (CSE)

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Travel Grants

Stewart and Jarmila Peck Collection Enhancement Endowment

In 2021, Stewart and Jarmila Peck established the Stewart and Jarmila Peck Collection Enhancement Endowment (the Peck Fund) with the Center for Systematic Entomology (CSE). The primary purpose of the endowment is to help students and researchers travel to the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA) to work with and ultimately improve the collections.

With the Peck Fund, the CSE will be able to offer larger grants than previously available. Grant size is limited (generally less than $2000 each) and subject to fund availability. How many grants offered per year depends on the number and size of other grants awarded that year. Proposals are evaluated by the GGE Committee and approved by the CSE Board of Directors.

Interested persons should contact the appropriate curator at the FSCA or the GGE Committee to inquire about potential work and availability of funding.

Only members of the CSE can apply for grants. Applicants should submit a short (one to two page) proposal outlining the intended work and how it will improve the collections. Items to include: Title, researcher's name and contact information (major professor if a student), importance/purpose and scope of work, proposed time of visit, and budget. Send proposals to: Grants Committee, Center for Systematic Entomology, P. O. Box 141874, Gainesville FL 32614-1874, or Email: csentomology@gmail.com.

After the project is finished, a report of the accomplished work with some photographs should be sent to the Grants Committee. This report will be formatted and posted on the CSE website. The CSE and Peck Endowment are to be acknowledged in any ensuing publication.

Gifts, Grants and Endowment (GGE) Committee members:
Sandor Kelly (Chair, FSCA representative), Felipe Soto-Adames and Davide Dal Pos (CSE Board members)

Previously Funded:

2023 Project Report: Art Evans, Kal Ivanov. Curation of unidentified Melolonthinae (Scarabaeidae) and Formicidae (Hymenoptera).

2023 Project Report: Robert Anderson. Curation of unidentified Curculionidae (Coleoptera), part 1.

2022 Project Report: Rachel Sutherland. Color evolution in Erotylidae (Coleoptera).

2020 Project Report: Elena Ortiz Acevedo. Exploring mimicry in Neotropical butterflies: a morphological and geographical approach

2020 Project Report: Alexander B. Orfinger. Taxonomic Revision of Polycentropus (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from the Eastern Nearctic

2019 Project Report: Daniel Edwin Domínguez León. Systematics of the genus Oxacis LeConte (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)

2019 Project Report: Marnelli P. Sotto-Alviola. Springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) Collection, Preservation, Morphology, Taxonomy and Identification Training

2019 Project Report: Adrian Ardila Camancho. Systematics of the mantidfly subfamily Symphrasinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)

2018 Project Report: Leila Teruko Shirai. The contribution of the developmental hierarchy in morphological diversification

Archive:

2009 Guatemala trip summary
2009 Guatemala trip photographs

Since 1991 numerous other grants have been awarded. Recipients include:

2019 - Marnelli P. Sotto-Alviola
2019 - Daniel Dominguez Leon
2019 - Adrian Ardila Camacho
2018 - Rowland Shelley
2018 - Leila Shirai
2018 - G.B. Edwards
2018 - Adam Wallner
2017 - Oliver Keller
2017 - Michael Thomas
2017 - Javier Martinez
2017 - Daniel Burckhardt
2016 - Terry Erwin
2016 - Rich Leschen
2016 - Gareth Powell
2015 - Rowland Shelley
2015 - James Schlachta
2015 - Allen L. Norrbom
2014 - Fabio Laurindo da Silva
2013 - Marcus Guidoti
2012 - H. Gaska-Alvarez
2011 - Rowland Shelley
2011 - Laura T. Miller
2011 - Fred Skillman
2011 - Elena Ortez Acevedo
2010 - G.B. Edwards
2010 - Charles Staines, Jr.
2010 - Carlos Naranjo Lopez
2009 - Gary Steck & Bruce Sutton, Diptera of Guatemala trip photographs
2009 - Fabio Laurindo da Silva
2009 - Daniel Perez-Gelabert
2008 - Eugenio H. Nearns
2006 - Eugenio H. Nearns
2004 - Daniel Burckhardt
2002 - Rowland Shelley
2002 - Allen Brady
2001 - Thomas Henry
2001 - Mauricio Barreto
2001 - Ingrid Quintero Silva
2001 - F.W. Quednau
2001 - Allen R. Brady
2000 - Stephen W. Wilson
2000 - Scott McCleve
2000 - Nereida Mestre
2000 - Nadine L. Kriska
2000 - Michele B. Price
1997 - Specialty Employee Leasing, Inc.- FSCA
1997 - Ray Jones
1997 - Katherine B. Gregg
1997 - Julio Antonio Genaro
1996 - Kevina Vulinec
1996 - James T. Goodwin
1996 - Gordon R. Ultsch