2012 WARDER CLYDE ALLEE COMPETITION

The 2012 Warder Clyde Allee Competition for Best Student Paper will take place June 10 to 14 at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. All eligible students are encouraged to participate. The following rules govern the Allee Award for best student paper presented in the Warder Clyde Allee session at the annual meeting:

Eligibility requirements: Any independent graduate student research (including, but not limited to, the doctoral dissertation) is eligible. The work presented may be part of a larger collaborative effort, but the student should be first author and have the principal responsibility for the conceptualization and design of the research, the collection and analysis of the data, and the interpretation of the results. The entrant cannot have been awarded the Ph.D. Degree before the preceding ABS annual meeting (for the 2012 competition, this date is July 30, 2011). An individual can enter the session only once per lifetime. 

A note on the submitted manuscript/7 page paper.  The Allee competition is based on thesis work and in order for the committee to choose the finalists we hope that the 7 page paper showcases the power of the question, the character of the approach and the novelty and importance of the findings.  Thus a paper for publication would be inappropriate, but so would a superficial review.

To enter: Students must indicate their desire to be considered for the competition by checking the appropriate box on the abstract submittal form for the annual meeting; submit an electronic version of their paper, which includes their addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses; fill out a signed and dated form indicating that they meet all eligibility requirements (to be supplied to entrants after receipt of their papers); present a spoken version during the 2012 Annual Meeting; attend both the Allee welcoming dinner on the evening before the competition day and the banquet during the Annual Meeting. The spoken portion of the competition is limited by the number of papers that can be presented on the day assigned for the competition. Applications for the 2012 competition, including the written paper, will be due on Feb 16th, exactly one month before the meeting abstract submission date (March 16th, 2012). This will enable the Allee judges to evaluate the written papers and determine further eligibility.  Applicants will be informed of status prior to the abstract submission due date for the meeting. The manuscript must be submitted in electronic PDF format, of no more than seven double-spaced, line-numbered, text pages, and no more than a total of four tables and/or figures (this limit does not include abstract, references, or acknowledgments), and must be received by ABS 2nd President-Elect Dan Rubenstein, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ  08544, USA, Phone: (609) 258-5698, E-mail: dir@princeton.edu. Electronic submission is required.  If you do not receive acknowledgement of receipt within 7 days, please send a follow-up query. Papers MUST be formatted using the instruction for authors for a research paper in the journal Animal Behaviour to insure eligibility. Check instructions at the site: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journal description.cws_home/622782/authorinstructions. If significant new results arise after submission, students may submit a one-page addendum to their papers up to 30 days before the first day of the Annual Meeting. Questions should be addressed to Dan Rubenstein, dir@princeton.edu.