Funding-NSF -
Dimensions of Biodiversity; April 3, 2014
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 FY2014 again includes
partnerships with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) of Brazil. NASA will not partner with
the Dimensions of Biodiversity in FY2014.
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 14-525
Due
Date: April
03, 2014
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14525/nsf14525.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
·
Simon Malcomber, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703)
292-8227, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
George W. Gilchrist, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-7138, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Douglas Levey, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703)
292-5196, email: dlevey@nsf.gov
·
John Schade, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703)
292-7836, email: jschade@nsf.gov
·
Garth Spellman, BIO/DEB, telephone: (703) 292-8610, email: gspellma@nsf.gov
·
Michael Lesser, GEO/OCE, telephone: (703) 292-8143, email: mlesser@nsf.gov
·
Amy Litt, BIO/IOS, telephone: (703) 292-8417,
email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
·
Arcady Mushegian, BIO/MCB, telephone: (703)
292-8528, email: Dimensions@nsf.gov
· Roland P. Roberts,
BIO/DBI, telephone: (703) 292-7884, email: rolrober@nsf.gov