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INTERNATIONAL PALM SOCIETY

GRANT PROGRAM



Since 1985, the International Palm Society has been funding palm research, conservation and education projects all over the world through its IPS Endowment Fund Grants Program. In recent years, funded projects have spanned topics ranging from taxonomy, evolution and ecology through to conservation, horticultural science and botanic garden interpretation. We welcome applications from all those seeking to deepen understanding and appreciation of palms.

Through a generous contribution to the Endowment Fund from the children of Phyllis and Melvin Sneed, the IPS disburses the Phyllis and Melvin Sneed Award. This annual award is given to the project that best emulates the exploratory, globe-trotting spirit of the Sneeds, who travelled the world in search of palms and wrote about their adventures in the society’s journal. The image here, taken by Melvin Sneed shows his wife, Dr. T Anthony Davis, and colleagues in Sulawesi. 


Applications to the IPS Endowment Fund Grants Program are made via an online submission form. Submission deadline falls on 30 November each year. Grants typically range from US$1,000–5,000. Requests for funding for conference travel are not generally supported.


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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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