Smith Awarded ESA SysEB Thomas Say Award
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EmailSarah Smith, Ph.D., will receive the prestigious 2023 SysEB Thomas Say Award from the Systematic and Evolutionary Biology section of the Entomological Society of America.
Sarah Smith, Ph.D., will receive the prestigious 2023 SysEB Thomas Say Award from the Systematic and Evolutionary Biology section of the Entomological Society of America. This award acknowledges significant and outstanding work in the fields of insect systematics, morphology, or evolution "Insect" is defined here to include insect allies.
Smith’s work is titled “A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China”. She is interested in the taxonomy and systematics of tropical bark and ambrosia beetles. Her current research focuses on the taxonomy of Xyleborini ambrosia beetles and the creation of diagnostic resources to facilitate their identification.
Smith will present her research and be recognized at the SysEB Section Meeting during the ESA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2023, in National Harbor, MD
