Funding-Limited Submission - NSF – Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) (NSF 13-569); October 16, 2015

Purpose: This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic, paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about associated organisms, collector field notes, and tissues and molecular data extracted from the specimens, is a rich resource providing the baseline from which to further biodiversity research and provide critical information about existing gaps in our knowledge of life on earth. The national resource is structured at three levels: a central coordinating organization, a series of thematic networks based on an important research theme, and the physical collections.

Institutional Limit: 1

Link to Funding Opportunity

Internal Competition: To participate in the University’s selection process, researchers are to submit the following material electronically, assembled into a single PDF document, to the Office of the Vice President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, May 12, 2015:

· Names and departments of the PI, and Senior Project Personnel

· Title of the program and/or funding opportunity announcement number

· Brief project description (2 pages maximum).

The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee to review the material and make a recommendation as to the University’s applicant. Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

NSF Deadline: October 16, 2015