The Peck Collection Enhancement Endowment

Established in 2021 by Stewart & Jarmila Peck

Jarmila & Stewart Peck

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

Enhanced curation could include:

Specimen sorting & identification

Designation of types

Taxonomy updates

Grant awards are limited, and proposals will be evaluated by the Gifts, Grants and Endowment (GGE) Committee semiannually (January 15th and July 15th) and approved by the CSE Board of Directors. Applicants must be CSE members and should contact the appropriate curator at the FSCA to inquire about potential work.

Applicants should submit a short (1–2 pages) formal proposal composed of the following:

Title
Author(s)
Author’s Affiliation & Contact Information – major professor if a student
FSCA Contact/Collaborator
Contribution to FSCA Improvement
Budget and justification (itemized) – limited to $2000
References

The proposal must be sent to the GGE Committee. See under Guidelines (below) the mail and email address and, after the project is completed, a report of the accomplished work with some photographs should be sent to the GGE Committee. This report will be formatted and posted on the CSE website (See Reports of previous projects).

A summary of this entire process is also posted below under Guidelines.

GGE Committee

Sandor Kelly

Chair of GGE & FSCA Representative

Davide Dal Pos

CSE President

Felipe Soto-Adames

CSE Vice-President

Submit your Application

There are two way by which you can submit your grant travel applicaiton:

Email:

[email protected]

Mail to:

Grants Committee
Center for Systematic Entomology
P.O. Box 141874
Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA

Next Deadline

July 15, 2025

11:59 PM – Eastern Time

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Acknowledgment of the CSE and Peck Endowment is required in any subsequent publications derived from this grant

Guidelines

The Peck Fund

Eligibility

Must be a CSE Member
Expertise in Insect Systematic and Taxonomy
Must contact a FSCA Curator

Application & Submission

Prepare Formal Proposal (1–2 pages)
Submit Proposal to the GGE Committee:

Final Report

Prepare final report
Send it to the GGE Committee
Report will be posted on the CSE Website:

Reports

The Peck Fund

Year	Researcher	Title	Taxon	PDF
2024	Lagos-Kutz, Doris	The genus Aphis	Aphididae (Hemiptera)	PDF
2024	Milne, Mark	A taxonomic revision of the wetland-adapted dwarf spider genus, Floricomus (Araneae: Linyphiidae)	Linyphiidae (Araneae)	PDF
2024	Solomon, Hendrix	Cixiid planthopper genus Melanoliarus	Cixiidae (Hemiptera)	PDF
2023	Goff, Roy	Lepidoptera	Lepidoptera	PDF
2023	Evans, Arthur Ivanov, Kaloyan	Curation of unidentified Melolonthinae (Scarabaeidae) and Formicidae (Hymenoptera)	Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) Formicidae (Hymenoptera)	PDF
2023	Anderson, Robert	Curation of unidentified Curculionidae (Coleoptera), part 1	Curculionidae (Coleoptera)	PDF
2022	Sutherland, Rachel	Color evolution in Erotylidae (Coleoptera)	Erotylidae (Coleoptera)	PDF
2020	Ortiz-Acevedo, Elena	Exploring mimicry in Neotropical butterflies: a morphological and geographical approach	Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera)	PDF
2020	Orfinger, Alexander B.	Taxonomic Revision of Polycentropus (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from the Eastern Nearctic	Polycentropodidae (Trichoptera)	PDF
2019	Domínguez León, Daniel E.	Systematics of the genus Oxacis LeConte (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)	Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)	PDF
2019	Sotto-Alviola, Marnelli P.	Springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) collection, preservation, morphology, taxonomy and identification training	Collembola	PDF
2019	Ardila-Camacho, Adrian	Systematics of the mantidfly subfamily Symphrasinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)	Mantispidae (Neuroptera)	PDF
2018	Shirai, Leila T.	The contribution of the developmental hierarchy in morphological diversification	Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera) Saturniidae (Lepidoptera)	PDF

Other Grants

A trip to Guatemala!

In 2009, as part of an on‐going survey of Diptera of Guatemala in cooperation with the Systematic Entomology Laboratory at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), Gary Steck and Bruce Sutton visited Guatemala from May 28 to June 11, 2009. Partial funding for this trip was provided by CSE.

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