The PeerJ Award for the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation at ASI-IPFC12
We are excited to announce that two awards, graciously sponsored by PeerJ, will be offered: one for best poster presentation and one for best oral presentation at the 2025 ASI-IPFC12. These awards are open to early career researchers, including current Ph.D. students and those who obtained their Ph.D. within the past five years. The winner of each award will receive a free publication in any PeerJ journal, subject to peer review (which is worth $1,995 to each award winner), as well as a feature on journal’s blog site to discuss their research.
For those interested in applying for this award, please email the conference organization secretary, Ms. Carina Huang, at 2025.asiipfc12@gmail.com with the subject line “PeerJ Award – [Your Family Name].” Your email should include the following attachments: Proof of registration for ASI-IPFC12—the payment must be completed—and a copy of your submitted abstract. The deadline for applications has been extended to March 3, 2025. The scientific committee will evaluate all candidates during their presentations. Good luck to all applicants!
The Pieter Bleeker Award for Excellence in Indo-Pacific Ichthyology
The deadline for the IPFC Bleeker Awards nominations is 20 October 2024.
The International Steering Committee (ISC) for the IPFC offers an award for distinguished contributions to Indo-Pacific ichthyology. The award honours the “father” of Indo-Pacific ichthyology, Pieter Bleeker. Two awards in ichthyology will be conferred: one for distinguished contributions to Systematics and one for distinguished contributions to Ecology.
The first Bleeker Awards were presented at the 7th IPFC, Taiwan, in 2005 to John Randall (systematics) and Howard Choat (ecology). The recipients in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2023 were William Eschmeyer (systematics), Peter Sale (ecology), Gerald Allen (systematics), Jeffrey Leis (ecology), Keiichi Matsuura (systematics), David Bellwood (ecology), Douglass Hoese (systematics), and Geoff Jones (ecology), respectively.
Nominations are now solicited for the sixth round of the Bleeker Awards for Excellence in Indo-Pacific Ichthyology. The prize is awarded to an ichthyologist for “an outstanding body of published work in Indo-Pacific ichthyology, mainly in systematics OR ecology”. The awards will be presented at the 12th IPFC, to be held from 09 – 13 June 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. Each awardee will be invited to deliver a plenary presentation at the IPFC on their career history, impact of their research, and future challenges and opportunities. He/she will receive a conference registration fee waiver and travel costs to attend the conference; accommodation may also be offered if funds allow.
Nominations may be made by any ichthyologist, including self-nominations, and should include the nominee’s curriculum vitae, and up to a maximum of four pages detailing the nominee’s specific contributions and their impacts on Indo-Pacific ichthyology. The award for Systematics includes, but is not limited to, contributions to taxonomy, phylogenetics, phylogeography, speciation and evolutionary processes. The award for Ecology includes, but is not limited to, contributions to population, community, functional, behavioural and evolutionary ecology.
A maximum of four nominators are permissible per nomination. No further or additional endorsements from individuals are permissible. Members of the IPFC Bleeker Awards committee cannot make nominations. Nominations are for individuals only and cannot be joint nominations or made for organisations or institutions.
Nominations should be submitted as an e-mail attachment no later than 20 October 2024 to the Chair of the Bleeker Awards Committee, Dr Tom Trnski, Auckland Museum, New Zealand (email: ttrnski@aucklandmuseum.com).