Funding-NSF -
Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2013; May 6, 2013
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.
Dimensions
of Biodiversity FY2013 again includes a partnership with NASA. The partnership
will support the use of satellite remote sensing as a tool to address research
questions that integrate the genetic, taxonomic/phylogenetic, and functional
dimensions of biodiversity. The partnerships with NSF-China and São Paulo
Research Foundation (FAPESP) of Brazil will also continue in FY2013,
however they will include only collaborative research proposals because the
IRCN option with NSF-China has been dropped.
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 13-536
Due
Date: May
06, 2013
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13536/nsf13536.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
·
Simon
Malcomber, telephone: (703) 292-8227, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
George
W. Gilchrist, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-7138, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Matt
Kane, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-7186, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Samuel
M. Scheiner, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-7175,
email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Anne
M. Maglia, BIO/DBI, telephone: (703) 292-7380, email:
Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Michael
Lesser, telephone: (703) 292-8143, email: mlesser@nsf.gov
·
Scott
Heckthorn, BIO/IOS after Jan 15, 2012, telephone:
(703) 292-8420, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Leslie
Rissler, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-7836, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
Woody Turner, NASA/ESD, telephone: (202) 358-1662, email: woody.turner@nasa.gov