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INTERNATIONAL PALM SOCIETY

GRANT PROGRAM

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 for 2026.  


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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