NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2001

这项行动为2001财政年度NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该研究金的目标是培养少数民族科学家担任学术界和工业界的科学领导职务。为了实现这一目标，奖学金提供最高质量的博士后培训机会，以最近的博士获奖者。该计划是美国国家科学基金会的一项努力，旨在增加来自代表性不足的少数群体的研究科学家的数量，从而为国家科学事业的未来活力做出贡献。预计通过这些奖学金培训的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用，该奖学金的研究和培训计划题为“鬣蜥形态多样性的演变”。“这项研究比较了两个蜥蜴家族，Agamidae和Iguanidae之间和内部形态多样性的进化。 我们的目标是确定进化的分支比其他分支更大的形态差异，测试内和组之间的共同生态形态模式，并测试之间的关联增加形态差异和多样化率使用系统发育的背景。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2001. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare minority scientists for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. This program is an effort by the NSF to increase the number of research scientists from underrepresented minority groups, thereby contributing to the future vitality of the Nation's scientific enterprise. It is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Evolution of morphological diversity in iguanian lizards." This research compares the evolution of morphological diversity among and within two lizard families, Agamidae and Iguanidae. The goal is to identify clades that have evolved greater morphological disparity than other clades, test for common ecomorphological patterns within and between groups, and test for an association between increased morphological disparity and diversification rates using a phylogenetic context.