Funding-NASA -- ROSES
2015: Biodiversity; January 15, 2016
Agency
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Description
Recent
efforts to track the status of biodiversity globally have consistently reported
significant declines. A growing scientific consensus posits that biodiversity
is declining at rates comparable to those seen in major extinction events
documented in the geologic record. NASA seeks tools to understand the condition
of biodiversity and how it is changing. This NASA program focuses on
determining and monitoring the distribution and abundance of biodiversity
across its levels of organization: ecosystems, species, and genes, as well as
how and why these distributions and abundances are changing through time.
Another focus is to increase knowledge of how biodiversity drives changes in
the wider Earth System of which it is a part. NASA studies biodiversity and its
change by combining observations from satellites, airborne platforms, and in
situ sensors to explore biodiversity patterns in terrestrial, freshwater,
and marine systems. Our macroscopic observations illuminate patterns of
biodiversity through direct identification of ecosystems and certain species
distributions and abundances. Understanding the processes behind these patterns
often requires the use of models to integrate observations across spatial and
temporal scales. This solicitation seeks proposals for (Section 2.1) targeted
scoping studies for potential biodiversity-related field campaigns and (Section
2.2) workshops on specific biodiversity topics. These scoping studies and
workshops will provide guidance for the future of the Biodiversity program.
Details of the solicited programs are given in Appendix A.6 of this ROSES NRA
(Tables 2 and 3). Interested proposers should monitor http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
or subscribe to the electronic notification system there for additional new programs
or amendments to this ROSES NRA through February 2016, at which time release of
a subsequent ROSES NRA is planned.
Announcement
Number:
NNH15ZDA001N-BIODIV
Closing
Date:
Notice
of intent due Jan 15, 2016; proposal due Mar 16, 2016
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=280686
Contact
Information
Dr.
Max Bernstein