Biology Integration Institutes (NSF)

• Published date: 03 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31274
• Date: 03 September 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Arctic Doctoral Dissertation Research

Improvement Grants (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Arctic Doctoral Dissertation

Research Improvement Grants Arctic Social Sciences,

Arctic System Sciences, and Arctic Observing Network

announcement to attract research proposals that

advance a fundamental-, process- and systems-level

understanding of the Arctic’s rapidly changing natural

environment and social and cultural systems, and,

where appropriate, to improve our capacity to project

future change.

Deadline: Dec. 15, 2020.

Funds: $1.25 million for up to 25 awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities.

Areas: NSF said the Arctic Social Sciences Program

supports research on Arctic social and cultural

systems, present and past, and research relevant

to understanding these systems; the Arctic System

Sciences Program supports projects that study systems

of the Arctic operating at multiple temporal and spatial

scales, systems that can inform our understanding of

Arctic processes and the relationship of Arctic systems

to other global and regional systems; and the Doctoral

Dissertation Research Improvement Grants provide

support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral

dissertation projects conducted by doctoral students

enrolled in United States.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-597

Innovation: Instrumentation (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Innovation: Instrumentation

announcement to support the design of novel and

innovative instrumentation and associated methods

that address a clearly dened gap in biologists’ ability to

capture observations of biological phenomena and that

have the potential to be broadly applicable in biology.

Deadline: Proposals are accepted at any time.

Funds: Awards will vary by scope and length of the

project.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said projects may include instrumentation

for observing any level of biological phenomena (e.g.,

molecular, cellular, organismal, ecosystem, biome), and

may propose either new and innovative instrumentation;

instrumentation that signicantly improves the

accuracy, resolution or throughput of data capture;

or advancements that reduce costs of instrument

construction or operation. The scope of the proposed

instrumentation and associated methods can include

but is not limited to microscopy, spectroscopy, imaging,

environmental or biological sensors, robotic sampling or

remote image acquisition.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PD-20-165Y

Biology Integration Institutes (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Biology Integration Institutes

announcement to bring researchers together around

the common goal of understanding how the processes

that sustain life and enable biological innovation

operate and interact within and across different scales

of organization, from molecules to cells, tissues to

organisms, species, ecosystems, biomes and the entire

Earth.

Deadline: Jan. 13, 2021.

Funds: $15 million total for up to six awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said Biology Integration Institutes will focus

on biological themes that enable the discoveries of life’s

innovations. The outcomes from biological integration

will inspire new biotechnologies and applications to

drive our bioeconomy and provide solutions to societal

challenges. This announcement focuses on the

integration of biological subdisciplines, but any eld

beyond biology may be included as needed to address

the overarching biological theme.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-601

Sea Scallop Research Set Aside (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks

applications for the Sea Scallop Research Set Aside

(RSA) announcement to enhance the understanding

of the scallop resource or contribute to scallop shery

management decisions.

Deadline: Oct. 12, 2020.

Funds: Funds generated from the sale of landed scallop

RSA quota shall be used to cover the cost of research

activities, including vessel costs. Up to 25 awards are

expected.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; state, local and

Native American tribal governments; and qualied

individuals.

Areas: DOC said FY2021 priorities are surveys,

nonsurvey research, scallop biology, scallop recruitment

supplementation, bycatch and gear.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NMFS-

NEFSC-2021-2006494

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