The updated "biologists" organization (from "zoology") became incorporated on August 9, 1971.
[3] The organization is involved in projects aimed at the study and classification of biodiversity, such as the Systematics Agenda 2000.
[5] The mission of the Systematics Agenda 2000 involving the SSB continues.
The Society's annual Ernst Mayr Award "is given to the presenter of the outstanding student talk in the field of systematics" at its yearly meeting and is described as the "SSB's premier award", which is "judged by the quality and creativity of the research completed over the course of the student's Ph.D.
[7] Past winners include Alan J. Cooper (1995) and Hopi Hoekstra (1998).