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INTERNATIONAL PALM SOCIETY

GRANT PROGRAM




Since its inception in 1985, the IPS has been funding palm research, conservation, and education projects all over the world through its IPS Endowment Awards. 

Through a generous contribution to the Endowment Fund from the children of Phyllis and Melvin Sneed, the IPS disburses The Phyllis Sneed Award. This annual award is the project that best emulates the exploratory, globe-trotting spirit of the Sneeds, who traveled the world in search of palms and wrote about their adventures in the pages of Principes, the predecessor to our current journal, PALMS.  The photo on the left, taken by Melvin Sneed, appeared in an article in Principes in 1981 and shows his wife, Dr. T Anthony Davis, and colleagues in Sulawesi.    

We are eager to support endeavors that deepen the understanding and appreciation of palms.  We support herbarium studies, fieldwork, phylogenetics, pollination, conservation, and education projects. We invite researchers, educators, and conservationists to apply for grant funding.  

NOTE NEW EARLIER APPLICATION DEADLINE!

Applications must be received by midnight November 30, 2025 U.S. Eastern Standard time for consideration for 2026 IPS grants. Late applications will not be accepted.

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2025 International Palm Society Grant Recipients

for Research and Education

 Name  Project Descriptions

Brian W. Bahder, Ph.D.of the University of Florida, USA  

  Bismarck palms as reservoirs of palm lethal decline phytoplasmas in Madagascar.
Alma Lucrecia Trujillo Miranda Ph.D., candidate of Yale School of the Environment in Connecticut, USA 
 Roles of abiotic (light, soil moisture and humidity) and biotic factors (palms neighboring) on seedling establishment and survival in Ecuador.
 Mariano Ignacio Giombini Ph.D.of the National Council of Research and Technology (CONICET), Puerto Iguazú, Argentina 
 Ecological interactions between the queen palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana) and frugivorous vertebrates in the Atlantic Forest in Argentina. 
Victor Pérez-Calle Ph.D. of the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)  The evolution and biogeography of the genus Copernicia.
 Daniel A. Tucker Ph.D. Candidate Florida International University & Montgomery Botanical Center Fellow  Conservation of Sabal miamensis, USA  See PALMS volume 68-add a link?
Ercilia Maria Sara Moreno Ph.D.associated with Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura (UNNE) and Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste (CONICET-UNNE) in   Argentina, will use her grant towards completing a vulnerability analysis of the Bonpland palm, Butia noblickii, a species endemic to northeastern Argentina.
 The Gladys Porter Zoo in Texas,USA 
 Implementation of bilingual educational signage for palm collection   
 Andrew Henderson Ph.D. retired from Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, New York,NY, USA  Revision of Salacca and Eleiodoxa (Salaccinae, Calamoideae, Arecaceae) 

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