Mam·mal·o·gy / a branch of zoology dealing with mammals
Mam·mal·o·gist / a person with the best job in the world!
Mam·mal·o·gy / a branch of zoology dealing with mammals
Mam·mal·o·gist / a person with the best job in the world!
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The Grants-in Aid Committee was formed in 1971 (Gill and Wozencraft, 1994) to enhance and support graduate research by identifying and funding research proposals pertaining to mammals. Additionally, this committee nominates the outstanding graduate students that best meet the conditions and criteria set forth for the American Society of Mammalogists Fellowship and the Albert R. and Alma Shadle Fellowship.
The Albert R. and Alma Shadle Fellowship is awarded to a graduate student in recognition of current accomplishments and future potential in mammalogy. The 2021 recipient of the Albert R. and Alma Shadle award is Savannah Bartel of the University of Wisconsin.
Savannah Bartel has been an active member of ASM since her first year of graduate school in 2017. She was a 2018 recipient of an ASM Grants-in-Aid of Research award that funded the fieldwork for 3 of her dissertation chapters. She has presented her research at every ASM meeting since her first meeting in 2018. She is also a member of ASM's Public Education committee. With the assistance of GIAR and Shadle Fellowship funding, she has led several papers on mammal behavior and plant-mammal interactions published in journals like Behavioral Ecology, Ecosphere, and Ecology Letters. She has also coauthored papers published in journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Ecology and Evolution. She is very passionate about mentoring the next generation of mammalogists and has mentored 9 undergraduate students.
Savannah's dissertation research broadly evaluates 1) how human disturbances and species interactions affect the foraging behavior of rodents, ungulates, and coyotes, and 2) how spatial patterns in mammal foraging behavior may explain spatial patterns in plant communities. Her GIAR-funded research found that the overlap of multiple past and present disturbances modifies deer perceptions of predation risk, generating predictable spatial patterns in deer antipredator behavior and the effects of deer herbivory on plant communities. Her research also evaluates the role of mammalian carnivores as seed-dispersal agents. She has discovered that the non-consumptive effects of coyotes on rodent behavior improve post-dispersal seed survival of coyote-dispersed seeds and that Channel Island foxes are effective seed-dispersal agents. During her final year in graduate school with the support of the Shadle Fellowship, she has created a predictive framework for understanding how vertebrate social behavior mediates seed dispersal (in press at Ecology Letters) and is experimentally evaluating how coyote social interactions affect individual coyote foraging decisions.
The ASM Fellowship is the highest award made to a graduate student member of our Society. The award is intended to recognize current outstanding accomplishments in mammalogy, service to ASM, as well as the potential for a productive, future role in professional Mammalogy. The recipient of the 2021 American Society of Mammalogists Fellowship is Dana Green of the University of Regina
Dana Green has been a member of the ASM since 2015, and has attended every in-person meeting since joining the society. She was elected as a student representative for the ASM in 2017, and elected as a regular BOD member in 2020. Additionally she serves on the Informatics and Conservation Committee, and in 2021 was asked to join the ASM Vision Committee. Along with the ASM Fellowship, Dana has been the recipient of the ASM Student in Science Policy Award, the E.O. Wilson Conservation Award from the Animal Behaviour Society, and funded a three year project through Environment and Climate Change Canada. Dana has published in journals such as the Journal of Mammalogy and Comparative Physiology among others, and a book chapter in 50 Years of Bat Research.
Dana’s thesis work focuses on understanding the community ecology and movements of migratory bats in North America. The hoary (Lasiurus cinereus) and silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) can both migrate long distances, however they are not closely related and exhibit differences in wing morphologies indicative of foraging behaviour, suggesting that they occupy different niches in their ecosystems. Dana’s research will answer two questions: 1) How do two migratory bats partition resources to meet their requirements? 2) Are bats using landscape-level features to navigate for migration?
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A single graduate fellowship in mammalogy is provided annually by the Board of Directors of ASM at the recommendation of the Grants-in-Aid Committee. The amount of the award for the academic year 2019-2020 has been set at $20,000. The fellowship is intended to recognize current accomplishments in mammalogy, service to ASM, and the potential for a productive, future role in professional mammalogy. Applicants may be any graduate student members of ASM enrolled at a college or university for the forthcoming academic year and engaged in research in mammalogy. See the grants page for current application, instructions, and submission dates.
A single graduate fellowship in mammalogy is provided annually by the Albert R. and Alma Shadle Endowment Fund. The award is made by the Buffalo Foundation at the recommendation of the Grants-in-Aid Committee of ASM. Generally, the award is approximately $4,000. The fellowship is intended to promote a professional career in mammalogy by allowing the recipient greater freedom to pursue research, but is not a grant in support of a specific research project. Applicants must be enrolled as graduate students in a college or university in the United States for the forthcoming academic year and be engaged in research in any area of mammalogy. See the grants page for current application, instructions, and submission dates.
Awards are made available by the Board of Directors of the Society in amounts not to exceed $1500.00 (US) to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students who are members of the Society at the time of application. Awards primarily will be for support of field or laboratory work in any area of mammalogy, or for the purchase of supplies and small items of equipment related to such research. See the grants page for current application, instructions, and submission dates.
presented by the Buffalo Foundation to a student enrolled in a university/college in the United States to promote a professional career in mammalogy by allowing the recipient greater freedom to pursue research
presented to a student in recognition of current accomplishments in mammalogy, service to ASM, and the potential for a productive, future role in professional mammalogy