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Participation Guidelines

For eligibility in the HL Graduate Research Award
competition, you must:

  1. Be a member of The Herpetologists’ League in good standing.
  2. Be either a registered graduate student or have completed your graduate degree requirements within 14 months of your presentation.
  3. Submit an abstract (of which you must be the senior author and have done the majority of the work) by the deadline for submission of abstracts to the Joint Meetings, indicating your desire to compete for the HL Graduate Research Award.
  4. Give the oral presentation at the meeting.

All presenters will receive evaluations from the judges after the meeting. The top five presentations, as ranked by the judges, will be announced at the Meeting Banquet. Presenters of the second to fifth ranked presentations will receive $200 awards. The presenter of the best presentation as ranked by the judges will receive $500, ten years of back issues of Herpetologica, and an invitation to submit a manuscript based on the work presented to either Herpetologica or Herpetological Monographs, depending on its length. The Herpetologists' League will commit to publishing this manuscript, following successful peer review and editorial revision, as a lead article identifying the author (or senior author) as the winner of the Herpetologists' League Graduate Research Award.

For further information or questions concerning The Herpetologists' League Graduate Research Award, contact Dawn Wilson, Director, Southwest Research Station, P.O. Box 16550, Portal, AZ 85632, USA.