Cooperative Weed Management Area (USDA)

• Date: 22 October 2020
• Published date: 22 October 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31349

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Grants alert (cont.)

societal importance; and TRTech-PGR Track—tools,

resources and technology breakthroughs that further

enable functional plant genomics. Emphasis is placed

on the scale and depth of the question being addressed

and the creativity of the approach. Data produced

by plant genomics should be usable, accessible,

integrated across scales and of high impact across

biology. Training, broadening participation and career

development are essential to scientic progress and

should be integrated in all PGRP-funded projects.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-507

Formal Methods in the Field (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Formal Methods in the Field

announcement to bring together researchers in formal

methods with researchers in other areas of computer

and information science and engineering to jointly

develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for

designing and implementing correct-by-construction

systems and applications with provable guarantees.

Deadline: Feb. 16, 2021.

Funds: $10 million total for up to 22 awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said Track I: Research proposals must

have at least one Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI

with expertise in formal methods and at least one with

expertise in one or more of these elds: computer

networks, distributed/operating systems, embedded

systems, human-centered computing and machine

learning; and Track II: Transition to Practice proposals

must support the ongoing development of extensible

and robust formal-methods research prototypes/tools

to facilitate usability and accessibility to a larger and

more diverse community of users, and are expected

to support the development, implementation and

deployment of later-stage successful formal methods

research and tools into operational environments in

order to bridge the gap between research and practice.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-613

Chemical manufacturing and engineering

the elimination of end-of-life plastics (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Emerging Frontiers in Research

and Innovation Distributed Chemical Manufacturing

and Engineering the Elimination of End-of-Life Plastics

announcement.

Deadline: April 19, 2021.

Funds: To be determined.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said funding supports proposals that aim to

investigate emerging frontiers in one of the following two

research areas: Distributed Chemical Manufacturing and

Engineering the Elimination of End-of-Life Plastics.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-614

Cooperative Weed Management Area (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s U.S. Forest

Service (USFS) seeks applications for the Great Lakes

Restoration Initiative announcement to support projects

that implement strategic, priority actions within USFS

authorities to restore, protect and maintain the Great

Lakes ecosystem.

Deadline: Dec. 11, 2020.

Funds: $850,000 total for up to 20 awards ranging from

$15,000 to $50,000.

Eligibility: Cooperative Weed Management Areas,

Cooperative Invasive Species Management Areas or

similar organizations within the U.S. Great Lakes Basin

(parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,

Pennsylvania and New York).

Areas: USDA said successful projects will address

invasive plant species that pose signicant ecological

threats in the Great Lakes Basin. Funds are available

for the following program area: invasive plant species:

detect, prevent, eradicate and/or control invasive plant

species to promote ecological resiliency, watershed

stability and biological diversity on federal, state, or

other public or private land.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USFS-GLRI-CWMA-2021

Community Connect Grant Program (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities

Service (RUS) seeks applications for the Community

Connect Grant Program to provide service at or above

the Broadband Grant Speed to all premises in rural,

economically challenged communities where broadband

service does not exist.

Deadline: Dec. 23, 2020.

Funds: $3 million for up to 20 awards of up to $100,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: USDA said the deployment of broadband

services on a community-oriented connectivity basis

stimulates economic development and provides

enhanced educational and health care opportunities

in rural areas. RUS will give priority to rural areas that

demonstrate the greatest need for broadband services.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# RDRUS-CC-2021

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