Funding-Dimensions
of Biodiversity FY2012; April 10, 2012
Agency
Name
National
Science Foundation
Synopsis
Despite centuries of
discovery, most of our planet's biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown
diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss
of biodiversity across the globe. With this loss, humanity is losing links in
the web of life that provide ecosystem services, forfeiting an understanding of
the history and future of the living world, and losing opportunities for future
beneficial discoveries in the domains of food, fiber, fuel, pharmaceuticals,
and bio-inspired innovation.
The goal of the
Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe
and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. The campaign promotes
novel, integrated approaches to identify and understand the evolutionary and
ecological significance of biodiversity amidst the changing environment of the
present day and in the geologic past.
This campaign seeks
to characterize biodiversity on Earth by using integrative, innovative
approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the
diversity of life on Earth. It takes a broad view of biodiversity, and
currently focuses on the integration of genetic, taxonomic/phylogenetic,
and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals should
integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions and feedbacks among
them. While this focus complements several core NSF programs, it differs by
requiring that multiple dimensions of biodiversity be addressed simultaneously,
in innovative or novel ways, to understand their synergistic roles in critical
ecological and evolutionary processes.
Investigators wishing
to inquire about the suitability of potential projects for Dimensions of
Biodiversity are encouraged to email a brief summary and contact information to
Dimensions@nsf.gov
Announcement
Number:
NSF 12-528
Due
Date: April 10, 2012
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503446&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
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Richard Inouye |
(703)
292-4974 |
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George W. Gilchrist |
(703)
292-7138 |
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Matt Kane |
(703)
292-7186 |
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Charles Lydeard |
(703)
292-7207 |
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Samuel M. Scheiner |
(703)
292-7175 |
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Anne M. Maglia |
(703)
292-7380 |
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Michael Sieracki |
(703)
292-2688 |
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Lewis Incze |
(703)
292-7585 |
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Scott Heckthorn |
(703)
292-8420 |
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Douglas J. Levey |
(703)292-5196 |
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Sarah Mathews |
(703)
292-4415 |
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Leslie Rissler |
(703)
292-7836 |
Contacts for US-São
Paulo Collaborative Research Projects
Dr. Samuel M. Scheiner, NSF BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-7175,
email: sscheine@nsf.gov,
Dr. Patricia Brant Monteiro, Directora de Area de Ciencias Biologicas e Agrarias, Director of Biology and Agronomy, email: patricia@fapesp.br
For specific
questions involving the NASA partnership and relevance of proposals to NASA
Woody Turner, NASA/ESD, telephone: (202) 358-1662, email:
woody.turner@nasa.gov