An initiative of the National Science Foundation of the United States (Division of Environmental Biology, Systematic Biology program)
The NSF, in partnership with academic institutions, botanical gardens, freshwater and marine institutes, and natural history museums, seeks to stimulate and enhance taxonomic research on poorly known groups of organisms and help prepare future generations of taxonomic experts. Three major components are required in a project submitted in the PEET Special Competition:
- monographic research, with emphasis to be given to organisms that are little studied or to groups for which taxonomic expertise is limited or vanishing (for example, microbes, protists, fungi, and invertebrates);
- training of new taxonomists, emphasizing acquiring new skills and tools in the context of a broadly interdisciplinary training program; and
- dissemination of current expertise via electronic databases and other products with broad accessibility to the scientific community.
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