ASIH 1997 Joint Meetings

HL Award for Graduate Research

Student members of the Herpetologists' League are encouraged to submit manuscripts for the HL Award for Graduate Research. The award winner will receive $500 and 10 years of back issues of Herpetologica, plus an invitation to submit an expanded, full-length manuscript to Herpetologica for publication (subject to the normal review process). If accepted, the paper will appear as a lead article in an issue of the journal, with an editorial preface identifying the paper as the winner of the Herpetologists' League Award for Graduate Research. The award winner will be announced at the HL business meeting on June 28, 1997.

Applicants must:

1. submit a manuscript;
2. give an oral presentation at the annual meeting.

All oral presentations in this competition will be given during special sessions devoted to student presentations, probably on June 27. Presentations will be 15 minutes in length (12 minutes for the presentation and 3 minutes for questions).

Qualifications

The applicant must be:

1. a member of the Herpetologists' League;
2. a registered graduate student or an individual who has up to 15 months in a postdoctoral program;
3. the first author on the submitted manuscript and oral presentation.

Submitted manuscript rules

The applicant must submit an original and three copies of the manuscript formatted for publication in Herpetologica (see back page of current issue for guidelines), to HL President Dr. John B. Iverson, Department of Biology, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374; (317) 983-1405; (317) 983-1497 (fax); Johni@earlham.edu.

Manuscripts must not be more than nine double-spaced pages (including literature cited), plus up to four pages of figures and tables. Students submitting papers should contact Dr. Iverson for information on the Student Travel Awards.